I Love that story Giff. My new girlfriend suffered an enemia-induced complete hearing loss in her right ear recently. We’re still trying to cope.
Merry Christmas, just in case.
Now I’ll go listen to your tracks...
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The Combo Club
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Merry Christmas, just in case.
Now I’ll go listen to your tracks...
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Agreed. I was lucky enough to be the recipient of many, if not all the tunes Giff has embedded. Wonderful work; especially if you get how he recorded them.
I love this club. Oh yeah, ONE MORE DAY!
Just popping on quickly while I can..power probably to be cut again soon. Adelaide circled by bush fires..State on emergency watch and act..be back tomorrow hopefully as weather changes to about 30C..we call that a cool change loll Back my Saturday approx 18 hours if power still on. Adelaide hills on fire and areas near north of us..pretty bad..take care kids back later.
Stay safe, Aussie Giff! We need you around here to keep us youngins' on our toes.
My nightly before-bed thoughts. So our singing guitarist/music teacher and I decided to go over tunes after school on the stage for 1) to tighten a few parts down, and 2) to relax and enjoy ourselves playing music. Today was our half-day caroling field trip and it was quite memorable. Let me tell you the tale...
After lunch in town and minutes before we were to head to our final retirement residence, we found ourselves with extra time and decided to do a flash mob, of sorts, by stopping off at my mom's house and singing a few songs to her. She lives on a busy street a block away from our high school, but the holiday spirit took hold of us so off we went. The three pics below show you the results. My ma cried her eyes out because she was so touched. A life-long worker in the educational field, she enjoyed a yellow bus double-parked outside her house with sixty fifth-graders jumping out to sing to her. Best feeling I've had so far this holiday.
Tomorrow, we're playing holiday favorites with 400 of our best friends singing at the top of their lungs as I've mentioned. Jordan told me this afternoon that playing along with the kids means a tug of war with tempo. She said they'll push it to the maximum threshold. She added that she'll start a song slower than usual, they'll push it way up through their exuberance, and then it's a battle the rest of the way to find a compromise. Sounds like fun.
Once again, we're using side-fill monitors and it is truly glorious. My Rumble 100 truly never sounded better today; fat but still with decent definition, woody as woody can be within Iowa law, and generally a pleasant tone to mix in with other instruments. I seriously question whether I need another bass amp as long as there's proper PA support. I even thought it'd be a hoot to bring out the VOX combo amp and roll the dice with (especially since Doc has stiffed me!). Even my buddy said it's been a pleasure playing the last week or two because she's now admitting it's the first time she's actually heard me playing the songs with her. Very nice.
I'm gonna try and get either a video of a song or possibly a recording with my portable recorder. If it doesn't come out well I'll forget it, but if you can actually hear and make out the instruments I may post or mail it off to anyone interested. Bueller? Bueller?
That's it for now. Off to Dreamland and prep for the final school day of 2019. I'm cautiously excited...
Talk at ya this weekend. Hey, what happened to my $1,000,000,000 bonus offer for bringing in a new member or two? It's been a while since we've added anyone to the Golden Roster. Get busy, elves!
After lunch in town and minutes before we were to head to our final retirement residence, we found ourselves with extra time and decided to do a flash mob, of sorts, by stopping off at my mom's house and singing a few songs to her. She lives on a busy street a block away from our high school, but the holiday spirit took hold of us so off we went. The three pics below show you the results. My ma cried her eyes out because she was so touched. A life-long worker in the educational field, she enjoyed a yellow bus double-parked outside her house with sixty fifth-graders jumping out to sing to her. Best feeling I've had so far this holiday.
Tomorrow, we're playing holiday favorites with 400 of our best friends singing at the top of their lungs as I've mentioned. Jordan told me this afternoon that playing along with the kids means a tug of war with tempo. She said they'll push it to the maximum threshold. She added that she'll start a song slower than usual, they'll push it way up through their exuberance, and then it's a battle the rest of the way to find a compromise. Sounds like fun.
Once again, we're using side-fill monitors and it is truly glorious. My Rumble 100 truly never sounded better today; fat but still with decent definition, woody as woody can be within Iowa law, and generally a pleasant tone to mix in with other instruments. I seriously question whether I need another bass amp as long as there's proper PA support. I even thought it'd be a hoot to bring out the VOX combo amp and roll the dice with (especially since Doc has stiffed me!). Even my buddy said it's been a pleasure playing the last week or two because she's now admitting it's the first time she's actually heard me playing the songs with her. Very nice.
I'm gonna try and get either a video of a song or possibly a recording with my portable recorder. If it doesn't come out well I'll forget it, but if you can actually hear and make out the instruments I may post or mail it off to anyone interested. Bueller? Bueller?
That's it for now. Off to Dreamland and prep for the final school day of 2019. I'm cautiously excited...
Talk at ya this weekend. Hey, what happened to my $1,000,000,000 bonus offer for bringing in a new member or two? It's been a while since we've added anyone to the Golden Roster. Get busy, elves!
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A friend of mine who mainly just played at home for her own enjoyment, has recently joined a reggae band and is looking for a bass rig. She has asked me to help her find a lightweight rig that she can carry herself that will be able to deliver the bottom end and volume on backline only reggae gigs. She has a budget of £500. I can find her a new amp and used cab within her budget but her preference is for a single unit for convenience. Any suggestions.
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A used rumble 500 2x10 combo would do the trick.
Looks like fun and.....wait...Why's everyone all bundled up? And what's that white stuff on the ground??My nightly before-bed thoughts. So our singing guitarist/music teacher and I decided to go over tunes after school on the stage for 1) to tighten a few parts down, and 2) to relax and enjoy ourselves playing music. Today was our half-day caroling field trip and it was quite memorable. Let me tell you the tale...
After lunch in town and minutes before we were to head to our final retirement residence, we found ourselves with extra time and decided to do a flash mob, of sorts, by stopping off at my mom's house and singing a few songs to her. She lives on a busy street a block away from our high school, but the holiday spirit took hold of us so off we went. The three pics below show you the results. My ma cried her eyes out because she was so touched. A life-long worker in the educational field, she enjoyed a yellow bus double-parked outside her house with sixty fifth-graders jumping out to sing to her. Best feeling I've had so far this holiday.
Tomorrow, we're playing holiday favorites with 400 of our best friends singing at the top of their lungs as I've mentioned. Jordan told me this afternoon that playing along with the kids means a tug of war with tempo. She said they'll push it to the maximum threshold. She added that she'll start a song slower than usual, they'll push it way up through their exuberance, and then it's a battle the rest of the way to find a compromise. Sounds like fun.
Once again, we're using side-fill monitors and it is truly glorious. My Rumble 100 truly never sounded better today; fat but still with decent definition, woody as woody can be within Iowa law, and generally a pleasant tone to mix in with other instruments. I seriously question whether I need another bass amp as long as there's proper PA support. I even thought it'd be a hoot to bring out the VOX combo amp and roll the dice with (especially since Doc has stiffed me!). Even my buddy said it's been a pleasure playing the last week or two because she's now admitting it's the first time she's actually heard me playing the songs with her. Very nice.
I'm gonna try and get either a video of a song or possibly a recording with my portable recorder. If it doesn't come out well I'll forget it, but if you can actually hear and make out the instruments I may post or mail it off to anyone interested. Bueller? Bueller?
That's it for now. Off to Dreamland and prep for the final school day of 2019. I'm cautiously excited...
Talk at ya this weekend. Hey, what happened to my $1,000,000,000 bonus offer for bringing in a new member or two? It's been a while since we've added anyone to the Golden Roster. Get busy, elves!
Dayum! Looks like ya need to turn Oz over.
Safe here now after the bushfires have been mainly contained, yet some are still active. We came close with fires burning just north of us. The Adelaide hills was the worst as the huge fires there were less than 40 minutes from the centre of Adelaide City. 1 million people live here in Adelaide and surrounding suburbs. It was a very dangerous situation and areas still have power turned off as infrastructure has been damaged by fire. Few pics below don't really show the actual devastation that was caused..they may give some sort of an idea. Love the saved koalas pic sheltering in a wildlife carer's home. Only 2 known deaths so far but lots of flora and wildlife lost. THANKS TO ALL WHO WISHED US TO STAY SAFE.
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Yes things are certainly bad in your neck of the woods. Homes lost in SA as 30 new fires burn amid catastrophic conditions
Look after yourself
Wow. I can relate. I was part of the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history. In 2016 the whole city of Fort McMurray, roughly 90 000 folks, had to evacuate the city due to a wildfire. It was the scariest thing I've ever experienced. We escaped with my wife, our son, who was 6 months at the time, and our two cats. My wife told I had to pull myself together, as I was freaking out and questioning every decision I was making through the three hours it took us to actually get out of the city. When we finally got on the highway out of the city it looked like a post-pocalyptic scene out of a movie. Vehicles, including a city bus, we're abandoned on the side of the road, and houses and bush were on fire on both sides of the road. We felt so small and inferior in the face of nature. That fire caused a lot of physical damage to the city but also ruined people's lives. The city hasn't been the same since. Nonetheless, I am grateful that it wasn't worse.
That says it all. Thanks for the input Doc.
