How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Cat Burrito]

6 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

You look quite different off stage without the stage gear and lighting there Cat. I might not have recognised you without your usual stage headgear. 😂

Would def love to see you guys live. Such an interesting project.

Dave

The stage gear is normally my not working look, so I am happy to parade around the place looking like that most of the time. The mandocello is blocking my usual clothes so it is just the change in hat that is a little off brand. I very occasionally go for the long beanie, depending on mood. 

[Sean]

 

Last Wednesday was my first rehearsal with the covers band I joined recently. They've been busy gigging for over 15 years and are keen to get me integrated. 

We went to Firebird Studios in Bristol, which I think is top notch. It's very well appointed. 

We got through 20 songs and other than a couple of bits where they deviate from the original recordings, I felt that we were pretty much giggable. 

A great bunch that have really welcomed me and gave me free reign to run the rehearsal as I wanted. They feel that as I'm new to the band but definitely not new to bands, that the best way was for me to drive the bus. 

I started us off with some easier songs to get warmed up then did what I considered to be the ones that might have needed some detailed attention and then went on to some of the more fun ones to play so that we would end on a high. Other than having to restart one song because I inadvertently trod on my FX power supply and disconnected it, everything went smoothly. 

We're back in this week doing the rest of the set and running through a few that are new to them too, so I'm really looking forward to us all being in the same boat from that respect rather than me playing catch up. 

 

Recording the rehearsal seemed to be a new concept and got a few questions. I explained that I intended to build a library of play-along tracks for home practise that will be better than using the original artist recordings. I also mentioned that it's just good practice for any band to record and listen back to gigs and rehearsals as QA/QC. I use a Zoom H2n and then slice up the file in Logic and use the generic mastering. It's pretty good and more than fit for purpose. 

 

 

Edit:

The "deviations"? 

1. Mr Blue Sky (reprise at the end). Instead of 12 bars of Db then C then B there's a completely different ending that uses G A Bb with a riff.

2. Long Train Running. It goes G///|G///|Eb///|Eb/D/| at the end of the verses instead of G///|G///|Eb///|D///| I have to concentrate to not play it like the Doobies.

 

I don't know why or what the origins of these are, I'm just playing 'em "wrong" so it fits in. 

There were a lot more of these anomalies in my previous band and didn't understand any of them. It's almost like they've been put in there to trip up deps/newbies 😃

 

It's probably worth a thread of its own...

Edited 1 hour ago by Sean

[Stub Mandrel]

Bendricks Rock tonight. After yesterday's excellent gig we focused on four new tunes.

 

Another Girl Another Planet

London Calling

Alive

Kelly's Heroes

 

That last one wasn't very familiar for me, but is great to play - some subtleties and a wee bass solo.

 

Overall four banging tunes, we're just angsting over what to drop.

[tauzero]

Bonnevilles rehearsal, went over two new songs - Confidence Man (Jeff Healey Band) and Born on the Bayou (Creedence). Unfortunately the drummer was a bit behind as he'd been listening to Born on the Bayou and some other Creedence track because he hadn't spotted who Confidence Man was by and had found a CCR track that had a name vaguely similar to Confidence Man. Still, we managed to go through both songs a few times and work out how we were going to play them (I might have a listen back to the originals to see how close we are). Plus I've suggested another couple of old ones, Shaking all over and Summertime blues, although I would like to do them like The Who did them rather than the more pedestrian originals.

[Dad3353]

50 minutes ago, tauzero said:

...Confidence Man (Jeff Healey Band)...

 

No worries there for the drummer, listen through once, maybe twice, and it's down 'pat'. Easy peasy.