Musicians check in here. If you play, tell us about it!

[Pipeous]

Here's some pics to show my man cave's alteration... it used to be full of rc gear. I moved the violin to a hanging hook beside the F mando as I need that stand for the octave mando coming.... recent donation was that old yamaha rx15 drum machine. the zoom has a built in setup but it takes 2 tracks for each pattern change or loop you use. kind of wasteful. the harmonicas are on the shelf.

 

[Pipeous]

Ok, I've dumped File Dropper and opened an account with Dropbox. Here are the links to all the songs. Sorry for the confusion.

New York, New York
Dropbox - 01-New York, New York.mp3 - Simplify your life

Hello
Dropbox - 02-Hello.mp3 - Simplify your life

Hard for the Money
Dropbox - 03-Hard for the Money.mp3 - Simplify your life

Talking in Your Sleep
Dropbox - 04-Talking in Your Sleep.mp3 - Simplify your life

Just Another woman in Love
Dropbox - 05-Just Another Woman in Love.mp3 - Simplify your life

Motown Medley
Dropbox - 06-Motown Medley.mp3 - Simplify your life

I've Been Loving You Too Long
Dropbox - 07- Been Loving You Too Long.mp3 - Simplify your life

Surfing USA
Dropbox - 09-Surfing USA.mp3 - Simplify your life

Rocky Top
Dropbox - 10-Rocky Top.mp3 - Simplify your life

just found this Dave. Great stuff. Awesome solo on Hello. love harmonic stuff. checking them all out. you even work with a female vocalist huh? this is the kind of stuff we did back in the 80's.

 

[Pipeous]

ok rocky top made me grab my mando and jam along haha

 

[bassnut]

Home sweet home to me.

 

[bassnut]

I was down in San Juan Capistrano this last Sunday on my wife's business and she begged "Let's go to the The Swallows Inn and dance!" - it's a cowboy bar.
The band was The Doo-Wah Riders that weekend.
I got talking to the band while they were on a break and it turned out that we know lots of people in common mostly through Randy Sharp and dang if they didn't force me up on the stage to play bass on a couple of tunes.
I did OK.

ETA
This one of their videos that I found on YouTube.

 

[Pipeous]

did you show up with a vest, whit shirt and cowboy hat? seemed the bass player was wearing the same as the rest? sorry I can't make you out there bassnut

 

[DaveP]

Sorry guys, I kind of disappeared for a while. I wasn't on the forum. I was playing and jamming with multiple bands. Now I have a 24 track digital recording setup... I am in love with mandolin right now. I started with an Epiphone A style which I bought selling all my vaping gear(in my videos I only have when I started playing mostly). I bought an F style, a Maestro, off ebay and had to learn to be a luthier to get it playable. I bought a The Loar 600 F style. Then traded the Maestro for my Epiphone back (had sold it to a friend). This Loar is sweet. I have an Octave Mandolin kit coming any day now. I get to build it... and I got a fiddle for Christmas I am attempting to play...

Here's a video I wrote the music for. I hadn't been playing mandolin for long. I was using too light of a pick and playing too close to the bridge. but I hadn't even played a month at this time. I have been playing harmonica about 3 months now as well. cool toys. now I own 4 and the neck holder thingy. The rc guy is a buddy that does a ton of videos. I asked him about writing some music for a video. he wanted to do a better forklift video as he dropped crap... so that's the story I worked with
Pallet shuffle, Return of the forklift! - YouTube

Here's a month later. Tom popped by and we jammed out an old Led Zep tune and he's playing on my Fender (he's so talented man, he just learned it minutes before this). I am reading the words off the screen and my glasses aren't on hehe
Going to California.wmv - YouTube

Nothing better than a jam with friends! Good job!

 

[DaveP]

just found this Dave. Great stuff. Awesome solo on Hello. love harmonic stuff. checking them all out. you even work with a female vocalist huh? this is the kind of stuff we did back in the 80's.

Thanks! That was a production we did around 1983.

 

[DaveP]

I was down in San Juan Capistrano this last Sunday on my wife's business and she begged "Let's go to the The Swallows Inn and dance!" - it's a cowboy bar.
The band was The Doo-Wah Riders that weekend.
I got talking to the band while they were on a break and it turned out that we know lots of people in common mostly through Randy Sharp and dang if they didn't force me up on the stage to play bass on a couple of tunes.
I did OK.

Great video, bassnut. There's nothing like a Tele on the bridge pickup to make country music come alive! I didn't see you up there playing. The video must have been off during that time ... unless you borrowed one of their hats and wardrobe!

 

[sharkey]

I was down in San Juan Capistrano this last Sunday on my wife's business and she begged "Let's go to the The Swallows Inn and dance!" - it's a cowboy bar.
The band was The Doo-Wah Riders that weekend.
I got talking to the band while they were on a break and it turned out that we know lots of people in common mostly through Randy Sharp and dang if they didn't force me up on the stage to play bass on a couple of tunes.
I did OK.

What I don't understand is why legendary bands like the Stones sound like crap live and bar bands I've never heard of like these guys sound great.

 

[sharkey]

The nice part about recording is that most of what you do can be monitored with headphones. You don't disturb your neighbors until you start singing! The rest of it can be silent until that point. That's when you find a way to do it while they are at work or out working in the yard.

I live in a neighborhood where the houses on both sides of me are 100-200 feet away and the one across the street is more like 300 feet off. Still, when I crank my guitar up loud, I wonder who's cringing at the DB level.

It's also possible to build a cubicle made of thick foam rubber for a vocal booth. I've seen home studios where people lined a closet with foam and used that for singing. You just run a remote footswitch over to it so that you can start and stop recording without running back and forth.

The foam in closet is a great idea! I have to do that when I figure out a way to gets the rodents out.

 

[DaveP]

The foam in closet is a great idea! I have to do that when I figure out a way to gets the rodents out.

USB wireless headphones work well in that situation, too. They just have to be the closed type so they won't leak into the vocal mic. Can't help you with the rats ... try cheese with some rat killer on it!

 

[bassnut]

I wasn't up there! That's some other gig.
I just selected that randomly from one of their YouTube videos so show who they were and what they sounded like.
They've got quite a lot posted.

That Tele has a hipshot B-bender bar on it Dave, and he knows how to use it.

 

[Pipeous]

took me 2 days to catch up on this thread. I love the music and videos of vapers performing. I can see other musicians on youtube by clicking a mouse and flying around...

my DYI octave mandolin kit didn't arrive today... the maker has asked me to get a picture of the new kit for his website. if anyone is interested in building their own instrument (mandolin, octave mandolin or banjo) he has workshops every year that are quite good (wish I lived closer). a school teacher by trade and one of the nicest people I have met since the mandolin journey began

I am so enthralled with this little instrument I am about to start lessons at the academy of bluegrass. that and I have about had it with drummers LOL. they take so much room, everything has to be louder and it's much harder to get to practice/jam without renting space. right now Tom and I are thinking about doing some duo work. we just like to play and have fun with music. performing is a rush to me. it's a high no drug can fill.

 

[bassnut]

I see here what looks to be a beautiful Gibson mandolin in this photo.

 

[bassnut]

Tom and I are thinking about doing some duo work. we just like to play and have fun with music. performing is a rush to me. it's a high no drug can fill.

Do it! Life is short.
I could say that for myself after years and years of performing it gets really old....but it doesn't!
Songs can get a little worn out sometimes but if you leave them alone for while they freshen up.

 

[Pipeous]

I wish it was a Gibson. Mandolins are way more expensive than guitars.... 3-4 times as much. This is one of the better pac rim mandolins "The Loar" is the brand. it actually has a wider neck than most and I really like that. I just got it last week shipped in from Arkansas... my Epiphone is hanging on the wal, my first. The Loar has much fuller sound by far though.

to get a decent Gibson I am looking about 4 grand. my fender guitar new was 320, this mando I got on ebay lucky bidding and saved about $150 (paid 600 plus shipping). it has some cosmetic flaws and I can live with that (this brand is notorious for cosmetic flaws.... mine is rough and unfinished inside the body scroll... oh well).

I understand when people leave the music biz. I did that myself. agents and crap, money people pushing for things etc. I moved to this city to take vocal lessons with a tenor in the vienna choir. I was a smoker but had a 4 octave range. she said I had to quit smoking for 6 months before I could start... then life took over and I was in a new career that made a lot of money. I started playing music again just a year ago and you can see my addiction has taken hold bigtime.

the band I auditioned for seemed legit but man were they hard to work with. demanding and expecting me to just do whatever they said, yet I was basically the only singer. I couldn't get them to put any effort into tunes I wanted to sing and they wanted me to learn so many abstract tunes I'd never heard before.. then I hooked up with a country band for a couple sessions, then auditioned as a country bass player for a recording artist. their music was so mundane to me that figured I will just write my own stuff and record so bought that zoom R24.

Now I am still trying to get my album finished and want to jam some small venues. the album is going to be released this new year and all proceeds going to charity. I have a job and make ok money so that is not my goal. I love music and just want to play. if my suspect talents can help society then it's all good to me. Tom might argue this one as he wants to make money LOL

 

[bassnut]

Nothing wrong with making a little money playing music in fact it's my opinion that it's some of the best money available. It doesn't have to be a lot. Food tastes better when it's bought with gig money. Tip jar money is the best.

 

[bassnut]

What I don't understand is why legendary bands like the Stones sound like crap live and bar bands I've never heard of like these guys sound great.

We're hungrier and have higher standards. We have to in order to compete. (not that I'm any virtuoso) These days the Stones have no incentive to be good. They don't need to be....well, I mean they have some standard. They've paid their dues long ago. People shell-out big bucks just to "see" them.
It's really that easy and simple.

I'm going to re-post some links to a reunion gig my old band from around 1975 did last spring - other bands were featured as well. It was sort of an old-school Tulare County CA musician's reunion all around. A beautiful thing.

All original members - we hadn't performed together in over 30 years before this. We got maybe 3 rehearsals in beforehand. Cheat-sheets (chord change notes) were used...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOAmEvoi3Iw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5iGR7WgOQ

 

[sharkey]

"I'm fat, bald, old, and grey but i can still do it!" hehe!

The lead guitar work (or is it pedal steel) reminds me of Allman Brothers. Just listening to Duane blistering playing on Pickett's Hey Jude . . .