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The Edinburgh gig was amazing. I spoke to J before the show and asked him if he would play Drawerings, as I’d been playing it for my girlfriend earlier, he mumbled something about "if i can remember it"
My face still hurts from smiling all the way through, and in hugging my flatemate at the end, I dropped a pint on someone’s foot which didn’t make me very popular.
Special mention to Chris Brohart too, who was cool enough to chat for a while.
A Fenix blue swirly Telecaster from the early 90’s. Just like the chap from Puressence plays.
A Frankenstien red (soon to be a jackson-pollock <img> ) strat I built from parts of old smashed up geetars.
A pro-co Rat distortion, dod Overdrive, CryBaby Wah, some old chorus pedal, Korg tuner all into a Marshall combo, about 80 watts or something.
Fender DG-3 acoustic, covered in Mr Men stickers.
Zoom RT-123 drum machine.
Old school no-name mandolin.
Even older school Yamaha Keyboard that isn’t worth playing but did for drum sounds before this xmas’s drum machine.
I think thats it.
That doesn’t stop anyone who really wants your pic from getting it. They could always do a screen grab and cut it from there, or get it from their cache.
Rainydays and Mondays – Cracker (originally by The Carpenters)
Yesterday Once More – Red Kross (Carpenters again!!)
in fact the Carpenters tribute records is the best
The Pumpkins doing that tune may be able to block out the awful version by Toploader. I have come to hate Dancing In The Moonlight with a passion.
We just got new amps in our practice room, two Peavey Bandits. They’re pretty versitle with a two channels and two settings for each channel, vintage or modern. They cost £289 each, I’m not sure how thay converts to dollars, but its probably less than you mentioned.
I’ve been thinking about this for a wee while and plan to do a different cover each show. Start the show with ‘Walk Don’t Run’ by The Ventures and then half way through, a cover from the list…
Puretone – Addicted To Bass (a drum ‘n’ bass tune which works quite well with my drum machine, live drums and a dirty bass sound)
Say Yes – Elliot Smith (rocked out version)
Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground – Willie Nelson (rocked out version)
Me And Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson (rocked out version)
Lonesome Johnny Blues – CrackerAlso I claim to have done a rocky version of Jolene before the White Stripes made it cool…
Oh yeah, my (badly laid out) sig is just some links to some websites I do.
In other places I’ve been known to use other things
"of course I’m drunk, I’m not a ****ing stuntman":- Mike Reid
"I’m waving goodbye, I’m not saying hello":- Mercury Rev
"Everything is sponsored from the sea to the sky, this chorus has been brought to you by EMI":- Carter USM
There have been a few. Oh, look at me, I’m getting all nostalgic [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Outkast – stankonia
Turin Brakes – the optimist
Spiritulised – ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Blur – blur
Bob Mould – last dog and pony showjust the records that are in my bag at the mo, which means I listen to them loads. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I had a nice-ish wesfield electro-accoustic which cost about £200. But I smashed it in a fit of rage. So now I’ve got a Fender DG-3 which cost about half of that, but there are some good budget-y fenders around at the moment, plus they come with different colours, which is always nice.
At school people used to say I looked like the eldest of the Hanson trio, didn’t help that I played the geetar either. "play mmbop for us hanson" was the usual cry from the youngsters.
Also I used to get called Karl Poborsky (czech footballer), simply because I had long hair.
I normally have it like this, but thats ’cause I can’t ever be bothered to experiment….
Geetar
wire
Rat Distortion
wee wire
Crybaby Wah
wee wire
Aria Multieffects pedal for delay and random noise
wee wire
Dod Flange
wire
AmpI think I might have messed about with it before and decided I liked that best, or it could just be how they came out the boxes as I unpacked. Has got me thinking though, and I’ll probably have a wee play about with the order, see what happens. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
