Hi! Us kids did nearly all that stuff too in the 80’s and 90’s before we “knew better.” But our music was absolutely the best music of the century, depending on what you’re in to.
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Things we didn't know or do in the 60's and 70's
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In the 70s I played rock, blues, jazz, bluegrass, prog and a nice duet with a grand piano all on my P bass because that’s all I had. I almost bought a Ric instead of the P and you know what? I would have played all the above on the Ric with nary a concern. You played what you brought.
I may still have one of those somewhere. Looks familiar, anyway.
Recorded songs on my Westinghouse Transistor reel to reel tape recorder. Since the tape was only a few minutes long, we would record ourselves and erase the tape to record something else. I still have the tape recorder.
Yes, we still haven't quite sorted out if we were ahead of our time or hopelessly outdatedA lot of cool influences showing there.
.Pitch pipe,that fancy round one
I always tell young bands to do what you do and wait for the trend to catch up with you. Music trends are cyclical, if somebody starts a ska band because they see ska happening, it’s already too late. I dug what you guys were doing in that video.Yes, we still haven't quite sorted out if we were ahead of our time or hopelessly outdated
Thanks. I'll put this here for you to enjoy then. We did two of them; this one is better produced but both have great music if you're into that whole prog/fusion sorta thing:
I wrote most of the vocal parts; melodies, harmonies, and lyrics. Keyboard player did a few. Most of the music was a group effort though a few were songs the keys player had in the tank before we got together. I'm not crazy about the first track on the record so I usually skip to the second one, which is where this is cued up.
Dats da guy. A little research turned up that he was with the Yardbirds from August 2015 through July 2018. I've seen him 4 or 5 times. He's got such a great sense of style and dynamics. Tone for days..
And, if there was an acoustic piano in the house, you had to tune to it--or else EVERYONE was out of tune!
Or you could look at it this way: He gave his life for a worthy cause rather than just waste away in hospice.
Sears Silvertone guitars and amps, Farfisa and Vox keyboards, Baldwin and Standel amps, Mosrite and Hagstrom guitars, University and Banshee Pa horns, Echoplex tape echo,
We used a 60w Silvertone guitar amp with a 2x12 cab for our PA. Might have had a guutar in there too.
We tuned to the Farfisa.
Farfisa organ, Sunn amps & PA, radio stations coming thru guitar amp, right handed bass strung lefty, lousy burnable green vegetation with stems and seeds.
I was so lucky to find Ye Olde Music - Heil Sound in Marissa, IL. Traded my Fender Bassman head and cab for a new Sunn Concert Bass head and 2 15 cab. (2 JBL's) Wow, that was a light year of advancement! Then traded the Concert in for a Colosseum Bass head! 440 watts RMS, 880 Peak! 
It was 1973 and I was 17!
It was 1973 and I was 17!
We had a 4-input passive mic splitter. Output was so low we pre-amped into a VM tape recorder (the one with the green "magic eye") which fed a Twin Twelve head and 2 homemade 2-12 cabinets.
Great times. The first time we used our 2-12 PA cabinets, we wondered why our new 'marvels' were not loud enough. Haha. We ripped the PEGBOARD off the front and VOILA!
Great times. The first time we used our 2-12 PA cabinets, we wondered why our new 'marvels' were not loud enough. Haha. We ripped the PEGBOARD off the front and VOILA!
