How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Stub Mandrel]

5-8 in Barry (actually sneaked out 15 minutes early) with Fractured Persona then drive to Newport and 8:30-11 with Bluesfire.

 

Back via McDs for a MacPlant and home after 12.

 

Remind me... I do this for pleasure, right?

[Franticsmurf]

A mere 6.30- 10, and a 10 minute drive home with no excuse for a food stop on the way for me last night. I was rehearsing with 'The Bartenders' - a scratch band playing on the 17th. They're guys I've depped with before but the music is mostly stuff I don't listen to regularly so I'm still picking up the little details. After a few years of relaxed social gathering style rehearsals with the Hulla, these sessions are more focussed, harder work and they leave me feeling tired. But I also feel a great sense of achievement and as I have mentioned in the past, it's revitalised my playing and my self confidence. It mostly went well apart from my faux pas in getting the key of one of the songs completely wrong. I even managed some decent backing vocals.   

[Stub Mandrel]

Two good ones this week.

 

Refreshing our memories with Fortunate Sons on monday. Started finalising our full theatrical performance for Fractured Persona tonight - we have the 'script' and setlist, going through song by song and recording definitive live versions. About 40% sorted tonight, just a couple more off the original album we need to brush up on.

 

And look how our rehearsal room treats us:

 

 

[MichaelDean]

10 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Zero sugar, zero caffeine coke? They must hate you! 😂

[MichaelDean]

It was a good practice last night. One guitarist was trying out a new amp (a Laney Ironheart IRT-SLS) which sounded and will be plenty loud enough. The other was testing a new practice rig but managed to forget the power supply for his tiny pedalboard amp, so he was straight into the PA from a GP-5 but that worked alright. I was also testing out my Spector NS Icon with the right(ish) strings on, sounds great to my ear for what we do. We managed to get a new song ready except for lyrics, so that was also good!

[Rosie C]

Our local Wassail & Mari Lwyd is next weekend and our Morris band will be playing throughout much of the festivities, including leading (with the choir) a public sing-along in the early evening - Farmer's Boy, Gluouscetershire Wassail, Cwm Rhondda, Calon Lan, Sweet Caroline, Delilah, Sosban Fach, etc. 

 

We had our first practice with the choir last night - about 40 of them! With pouring rain and an upstairs rehearsal room, I kept things portable with my bass ukulele and Roland Street Cube EX. It went very well - the choir were well-practiced and it didn't take long to synch together. One more practice then the wassail. There's talk of there being a couple of thousand people there, though the band will mostly be on smaller amps. I'm torn between the practicality of bass uke + TE Elf, versus making the effort [of] taking my double bass and my Trace AH300. The photos and video will still be there after the back pain has subsided!   

 

Edited Thursday at 12:37 by Rosie C

[dmccombe7]

13 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Two good ones this week.

 

Refreshing our memories with Fortunate Sons on monday. Started finalising our full theatrical performance for Fractured Persona tonight - we have the 'script' and setlist, going through song by song and recording definitive live versions. About 40% sorted tonight, just a couple more off the original album we need to brush up on.

 

And look how our rehearsal room treats us:

 

 

Clean cups and fresh milk in a rehearsal studio. LUXURY. !!!! 😂

Dave.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Rosie C said:

making the effort and taking my double bass and my Trace AH300.

It has to be done.

[Stub Mandrel]

26 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Clean cups and fresh milk in a rehearsal studio. LUXURY. !!!! 😂

Dave.

 

 

Yep not even tannin stains.

 

Originally three of the mugs featured glorified images of Trump, Musk and Tate. They disappeared, presumably upset someone who didn't realise it was satire... 

[steantval]

A very fruitful rehearsal last night.

One of the venues we play at is starting up a once a month Sunday Blues afternoon gig and asked if we would like to play, we are mainly a rock covers band, but have a sprinkling of ZZ Top, SRV etc, not enough songs to do a full blues set, but we are up for it.

We decided on nine additional songs to learn for the blues gig to make up a full gigging set.

 

White Room - Cream

Roadhouse Blues - The Doors

Red House - Jimi Hendrix

Wishing Well - Free

Oh Well - Slash Version

Still Got The Blues - Gary Moore

Walking by Myself - Gary Moore

Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones

Oh Pretty Woman - Gary Moore

 

We all did our homework and came together last night to work our way through them, we nailed the first eight and then came to Oh Pretty Woman, Martin our drummer counted us in and then it immediately crashed and burned big time, his drumming was way off, we asked him what he was playing and he said it was a Van Halen version, we all said that Van Halen had never recorded Oh Pretty Woman, Martin had mistakenly learnt the old Roy Orbison song Pretty Woman which Van Halen had done a heavier version of, we almost p*ssed ourselves with laughing so much.

 

All in all, we managed to nail eight of the nine songs in a two hour rehearsal session, well pleased.👍

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 19:37 by steantval

[jensenmann]

No rehearsal this week, last week, the week before..... I´m hearing excuses all the time. Everything else is more important than rehearsing. It seems that it´s time to look for a new band. Motivation is at it´s lowest ever. Not that we had many gigs, like 5 or 6 a year. But nobody cares anymore. 🤮

rant over

[Lozz196]

Just got in from first rehearsal of the year, last being over a month ago. Was really good, a few hiccups here & there as none of us have really played any of the material in the downtime, but no big issues, especially as we’re not a gigging band. Was great to just be in the rehearsal room playing some great songs and having a laugh. Used my Sandberg Lionel into the studios Ampeg SVT450 & 810 and it sat very nicely in the mix, very pleased indeed.

[Si600]

We played Grip more or less correctly for the first time.  We also had a go at Nice and Sleazy, we can get to the end of the verse before the wheels fall off.

Edited 23 hours ago by Si600

[JapanAxe]

Last night was one of those final rehearsals that was so bad, you just know it’s going to be great on the night!

[WalMan]

Made some noise tonight with my first proper bandmates from 40+ years ago. We have been getting together every few months since lockdown just to make some noise and play through the songs from back then but haven’t managed to do so in over 6 months so there were quite a few senior moments.

 

Took the Darkglass Anagram, Barefaced BB2 and Baby Sumo plus Frankenjazz, Hard Puncher and Status S2 along with my regular amps as backup as the Baby Sumo had played up previously but tonight it was fine.

 

Much fun and noise made for few hours. We might not have played for a while but we worked together long enough all those years ago and are still damn tight when we remember the songs structure (knowing nods help). Always good to get together and blast through some choons, maybe a little slower than in the 70’s.

 

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by WalMan

[Cat Burrito]

Three hours of rehearsal yesterday to work up an acoustic set for tonight and finish writing the latest album.

 

 

The acoustic stuff always sounds good, although yesterday sounded slightly under rehearsed (a good sign ahead of a show). I dug out my P-bass and we officially finished writing our third album. On a personal note, I was particularly pleased with my vocal last night as it has always been my most challenging area and I have really worked hard on building my confidence and voice. 

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, WalMan said:

Made some noise tonight with my first proper bandmates from 40+ years ago. We have been getting together every few months since lockdown just to make some noise and play through the songs from back then but haven’t managed to do so in over 6 months so there were quite a few senior moments.

 

Took the Darkglass Anagram, Barefaced BB2 and Baby Sumo plus Frankenjazz, Hard Puncher and Status S2 along with my regular amps as backup as the Baby Sumo had played up previously but tonight it was fine.

 

Much fun and noise made for few hours. We might not have played for a while but we worked together long enough all those years ago and are still damn tight when we remember the songs structure (knowing nods help). Always good to get together and blast through some choons, maybe a little slower than in the 70’s.

 

 

 

Is that a graphite neck on the Jazz ? If so what do you think of it.

Dave

[WalMan]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Is that a graphite neck on the Jazz ? If so what do you think of it.

Dave

Yes it’s a Status neck and I love it 🙂

 

I have one coming from Kiwi’s graphite venture that I was going to put on the Hard Puncher but Ihaving played that a bit I like the original on that so it’s going onto a bitsa in planning 

[dmccombe7]

44 minutes ago, WalMan said:

Yes it’s a Status neck and I love it 🙂

 

I have one coming from Kiwi’s graphite venture that I was going to put on the Hard Puncher but Ihaving played that a bit I like the original on that so it’s going onto a bitsa in planning 

Keep us posted on how Kiwi's neck is as i have looked at the thread on BC.

Dave