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http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/song?q=dwight%20yoakam%20johnson%27s%20love

tom brumley. died a few a years back. enough to make you cry.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/song?q=dwight%20yoakam%20johnson%27s%20love

tom brumley. died a few a years back. enough to make you cry.

I fast forwarded to the end to see if they did that "sliding up on the end two notes to finish" thing that always happens in country songs where there's any slide involved at all.

Needless to say i wasn't disappointed! I love that kind of thing.

oddly enough, whhen dwight yoakam isn't playing typecast southern sociopathic hicks, he has quite a motherfucker of a backcatalogue well worth dipping into. especially the stuff he co-wrote with Pete Anderson before they started suing each other. D.Y. also had arguably one of the most awesomely named guitarists in his band - BRAD BREATH. who has also done some pretty awesome tracks with the equally fragrantly named Hank Wangford.

/back to grooveshark

Hank Wangford is playing at the Half Moon in Putney tonight. Or maybe tomorrow....saw the poster when I rode past earlier but now can't remember.

it is indeed tonight.

possibly.

and

/sorry

Hank Wangford is playing at the Half Moon in Putney tonight. Or maybe tomorrow....saw the poster when I rode past earlier but now can't remember.

great that he's still around? Used to see him at the weaver's arms, newington green, in its heyday

great that he's still around? Used to see him at the weaver's arms, newington green, in its heyday

I'd love to see him again, used to be quite friendly with his fiddle and pedal steel players... He was Gram Parsons' London GP wasn't he? Crazy stuff...

It tonight damn! Would have gone if t'was tomorrow

This from the half moon site:

'If Daniel O'Donnell is the brightly scrubbed face of British country music then Hank Wangford is its guilty conscience, its dark and troubled grubby soul. Hank has picked at the miserable underbelly of country music for twenty eight years, inspiring others like Billy Bragg, The The, The Alabama Three and other alt.country musicians. '

Ever heard Alan Tyler, David? He used to front The Rockingbirds, fucking great country-rock band (even tho' they were from north London)... Alan's still doing stuff tho' I haven't seen him play in years... Peter Bruntnell was another great one, haven't heard a peep out of him for years either...

I know Alan. Didn't he used to host a sunday session 'come down and meet the folks' at the golden lion on royal college street, camden then the fiddler's elbow kentish town? He rides a bike.
North london clearly rocks Joe. Though the balham alligators rock too.

I know Alan. Didn't he used to host a sunday session 'come down and meet the folks' at the golden lion on royal college street, camden then the fiddler's elbow kentish town? He rides a bike.
North london clearly rocks Joe. Though the balham alligators rock too.

He did indeed, I was a regular... Started at The Engine Room opposite the Roundhouse in Camden (now a wine bar) before it moved to about three other places... I used to DJ there a lot and my old country-folk band made their only two appearances at Come Down... I also saw Dr John playing keyboards for the Balham Alligators at the Latchmere Tavern in 1983!?! I was there with my gf at the time, her mum and her mum's boyfriend... Labour Party fundraiser IIRC... Weird night...

He did indeed, I was a regular... Started at The Engine Room opposite the Roundhouse in Camden (now a wine bar) before it moved to about three other places... I used to DJ there a lot and my old country-folk band made their only two appearances at Come Down... I also saw Dr John playing keyboards for the Balham Alligators at the Latchmere Tavern in 1983!?! I was there with my gf at the time, her mum and her mum's boyfriend... Labour Party fundraiser IIRC... Weird night...

bet we've know each other for years Joe. Used to go down n meet the folks regularly, My GF did floor spots there occasionally. You ever get to the weavers? (There's weavers facebook tribute page)

I never went to the Weavers, no... You probably know Lloyd, Nick, Liz and all those guys then... The Kings Cross/Camden folk mafia... ;]

sorry jeez, just saw all of your impedance questions. i get confused by the series parallel thing as well. glad you figured it out in the end. and SCORE! btw. a free working cab in any condition is definitely not to be sniffed at.

spent all day in soup studios underneath the duke of uke shop yesterday recording my 6 piece folk/pop band in a live session sort of manner. it was more or less a live room recording but with a few close mics thrown in for tweaks in the mix later. the plan was to just bang though two takes of everything and move on.

although it was a success i think (we got 12 tunes done and i'm confident that at least half of them will be good enough to use) it was a bit of a marathon and i was shattered by the end of it. day started at 10am setting up in a very cramped and stuffy room. started recording at around 12:30, half an hour for lunch then straight though till 7pm.

i usually get a bit "htfu!" when people use being tired as an excuse for not playing well, but yesterday after 6 hours of total concentration (standing and singing and playing finger picked acoustic all day) i properly hit a wall. in the first (otherwise good) take of the last song of the day, i played and held a wrong chord towards the end. in the second take i started to stumble over words and because i'd lost the ability to "just play" (i was having to concentrate on what my fingers were doing which was putting me off). i then made the exact same mistake with the wrong chord at the end. on the third take my right hand just stopped working and started to cramp up and do weird repetitive things i wasn't asking it to do, which caused me to concentrate on that and fluff the lyrics again. time to admit defeat and call it a day.

i haven't listed to the rough mixes yet. going to do that at lunchtime. if any of them are passable i'll post them up somewhere this weekend.

tchoh. that's why the good lord invented heroin!

Score, Jeez.

Got a bit lost with the impedance thing, but I think it means "set it to 4 so you don't blow the speakers"
If yours is 16, set to 8 and job's a good-un.

No Moore Gary. Shame. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgP-QfArzvs"]Sarah[/ame
] - great solo, iconic tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kpcmUPXaU

RIP

eh what? has gary moore died?

edit: apparently he has.

we'll always have parisienne walkways.

sad news indeed

that tune haunted my early guitar playing days. the very first song i learned in guitar lessons at school was "blue bossa", on which parisienne walkways is based and i i hhhhhhhhhhhated it!

wasn't a gary moore fan at all to be honest but it's always sad when someone dies. rip.

Sad yeah, saw gary at the town and country at highbury corner early 90s. Rocking gig, RIP

Factoid alert! I used a flying V and a Strat on the first LP. Second LP was just the strat. What a knob. Strats suck! Am I right?

Interesting day aboard Studio Lightship 95 doing that Channel 5 thing yesterday. What’s that rule about a task expanding to fill the available time? Well, the recording of a 17 second track (14 of which are a drum intro) managed to take us 10 hours. Conversely I managed to squeeze the consumption of 4 big cans of Stella into about an hour before we left meaning I’m feeling rather queasy today.

We’d been given a remit to produce this track to the above time constraints and to reference various contemporary rock blandness (Kings of Leon etc). We came up with three versions, two of which were pretty convincing and one was actually pretty cool. The third “idea” was just last minute “play any old thing” two-chord thrash to make up the numbers. Predictably they chose that one.

Tried to find some interesting guitar bits to squeeze into my three seconds of glory but with the balls to the wall, thrashed barre chord feel and the brutally short amount of time available all I could come up with was dad-rock pentatonic doublestops. I felt dirty playing it and winced every time I heard it on the playback. Lobbied all afternoon for it to be dumped which, thankfully, it finally was. Finished thing is basic as anything but I was happy with the overall sound. Played my Tele and as usual split the signal one side going straight into my cranked Champ for filthy gritty silverface skronk. The other side went though a Bad Monkey overdrive into a Selmer Treble and Bass and an Orange 4x12 cab. Very Loud and very fun. Should have some video clips (shot for the “making of” documentary this will feature in) soon.

The ident itself will be on Channel 5 from 14th Feb.

Just saw the "drummer" ident which went out today. Keep chuckling at how short it is. I note that they've mixed my lame-o double stops back into it too. Nnnng. Just spoke my mate and he tells me that he binned the drums that took all day to record on Studio Lightship and the final version is in fact our rehearsal room recording of a SM58 in the bassdrum and a cheap (Rode NT1A) condensor overhead. *facepalm.

YouTube - Channel 5 ident 2011 - Drums