Radio Seattle, The Flag, 16.03.12
How much fun was that?! Great to be back onstage again, and great to be playing guitar on some grunge classics!
There are some photos posted on Facebook, with more to follow very shortly, along with some videos. All of which will get posted here on the blog too. And if you haven’t found us on ReverbNation or Myspace, please take a look. Continue reading
First gig tonight, at a plush venue – The Flag, Watford. Come as you are and check us out! We’ve been busy in the rehearsal studio: the setlist is sorted, the effects thingy (technical term us guitarists use) is broken in; we’re proud as roosters and just itching to get alive onstage. We’ll be outshined by none.
Photos and hopefully some live tracks to follow.
If you want to know what we’re playing, there may be some clues above…
Apologies for the delay in posting the latest rehearsal notes, my internet provider stuffed up and I was without internet access for 48 hrs. Eek. The horror. I won’t name names, but the company should stop spending money sticking ginger beards on Olympic sprinters and concentrate on getting faults fixed promptly.
Right, privileged western consumer moan over. They were very nice on the Helpline. Eventually.
Rehearsal this week saw us a man light, singer Dave P hors de combat with man-flu. So it gave us a chance to run through songs without him, work on a few specific problems (such as me and Dave S galumphing all over Richard’s bass run at the end of Alive – to be fair, I have just indulged myself in two minutes of Mike McCready’s finest, I should let him have his moment of glory) and discuss pickup choices, EQs and the balance of the guitars. All the stuff that would have made Dave P ill with boredom if he hadn’t already been off ill anyway.
Dave S took a stack of photos, and I’ll get some of these uploaded this week, either here or on the band’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Radio-Seattle/298277663538939. If you don’t ‘like’ the band already on FB, that’ll be your chance! Ahh, go on now. Go on, go on, go on.
Oh, and we’ve got a couple of demos up from the recordings the week before: Plush and Nearly Lost You. The sound is pretty raw, but worth checking out. Click on the Demos page on the top menu, and spin the black circle! (Or the digital equivalent anyway.) Enjoy!
Right, we have a couple of demos for your delight and delectation!
Go to the Demos tab, and click on our covers of classic grunge songs by Stone Temple Pilots and Screaming Trees.
We recorded the two songs in rehearsal on 16-01-12. Richard carefully placed a his recording device in the optimal sound position in the rehearsal room… ok, we stuck a mike in the middle of the room and pressed record. Zeek then topped and tailed the files and made a few minor tweaks to the overall sound. One-track technology at its finest.
So please allow for the, err, raw feel of the songs, but we think they sound pretty damn good for what they are, and hopefully they give you a taste of how we’re getting on!
We’re going to record some demos in a grown-up manner in the coming months.
Watford Cheetahs update: cornerback Sweet (when do you choose a squad number, Dave?) turned up with a comedy limp and (probably) half a kneecap left, muttering something about the knuckleheaded safety on his own side. The season starts in April. Can’t wait.
This was a birthday rehearsal. Your correspondent turned thirty-aarrgghh… thirty-aarrgghh… thirty-way-too-many. Dave S got me some cool wooden picks that are a delight to use (small pleasures grow in size when you reach my advancing years). It was also Dave P’s wife’s birthday. Yes, he made it to rehearsal… late. I’m impressed he made it at all.
A return to form this week. Abandoning playing a setlist, we focused on fewer songs and methodically reacquainted ourselves with them. Come As You Are is the one new song we’re plugging away at. Finding just the right Nirvana song(s) to play is proving tricky. Anyway, we taped the songs, and are giving them a listen through to decide which ones we’ll get down on tape next Monday. We should be recording two songs, and I’ll upload them to this blog. Am listening to Fell on Black Days right now. There are some quite comic bits round the songs. Bid enough and I’ll upload the two Daves enjoying a bit of Welcome Home (Sanitarium).
Songs: Nearly Lost You, Plush, Fell on Black Days, Alive, Cherub Rock, Rooster, Come As You Are, Say Hello 2 Heaven, Yellow Ledbetter (snuck on the end – can’t finish a rehearsal without playing it!)
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