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Guitarist Gordon Turner and myself accompanied Horse playing her new song "Heaven Can Wait" on "The Hour" on Scottish Television yesterday. We're quite chuffed with the result so thought I would share it here :-) You can find the song at the following link, it's in Part 4 about 6:00 minutes from the start;

[url="http://player.stv.tv/programmes/the-hour/2009-10-05-1700/"]http://player.stv.tv/programmes/the-hour/2009-10-05-1700/[/url]

There is also an interview with Horse at the beginning of Part 4.

Jennifer

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Thanks folks! I was really pleased with the bass tone they managed to achieve, it sounds well deep through my stereo. Just a single microphone pointing towards the bridge/treble side f-hole, not more than a foot away from the instrument.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='618523' date='Oct 6 2009, 01:31 PM']Why does she call herself Horse?[/quote]

That's her name :-)

Jennifer

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[quote name='cheddatom' post='618551' date='Oct 6 2009, 01:57 PM']fatback - search for "UK http proxy"[/quote]

We're trying to get it made available globally but I had no idea there was already a way round it... will have to investigate this, thanks.

Jennifer

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[quote name='cheddatom' post='618551' date='Oct 6 2009, 01:57 PM']fatback - search for "UK http proxy"[/quote]

Thanks cheddatom. Unfortunately the work pcs don't let us use proxies.

lll just have to go to Scotland to watch. hehe. Love the place, lived there for years.

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[quote name='fatback' post='618589' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:28 PM']Thanks cheddatom. Unfortunately the work pcs don't let us use proxies.

lll just have to go to Scotland to watch. hehe. Love the place, lived there for years.

fatback[/quote]

Oh the bastards. Befriend your IT man!

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There's a specific web page for it now, right here;

[url="http://programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gossip/128148-horse-performs-her-song-heaven-can-wait/"]http://programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gos...eaven-can-wait/[/url]

No idea if that will work abroad or not!

Jennifer

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[quote name='fatback' post='618589' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:28 PM']lll just have to go to Scotland to watch. hehe. Love the place, lived there for years.

fatback[/quote]

<plug> Come over and see us when we play the MacRobert Centre in Stirling on October 17 :-) </plug>

No seriously, we are normally a five piece, also with keys/vocals and drums, and it is a great band and great show. The drummer usually does the "stirring the porridge" thing with brushes on the snare drum during that particular song, so it takes a lot of concentration to create the correct feel of the tune without him.

Jennifer

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[quote name='endorka' post='618705' date='Oct 6 2009, 03:59 PM']There's a specific web page for it now, right here;

[url="http://programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gossip/128148-horse-performs-her-song-heaven-can-wait/"]http://programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gos...eaven-can-wait/[/url]

No idea if that will work abroad or not!

Jennifer[/quote]

Yaay! Works!

Lovely performance. Well done you lot. :)

fatback

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Thanks for the comments folks :-)

The sound people were happy to use a mic for the double bass, which I always think sounds better in low volume situations. It is really strange hearing the double bass from the listeners perspective, as it always sounds different from when I am actually playing it. Presumably being behind/above the instrument considerably affects the tone and volume, as I always perceive it as fairly thin and a bit quiet. I'm getting better at adjusting to this discrepency as time goes on, although it can still surprise me sometimes.

Jennifer

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[quote name='wateroftyne' post='620592' date='Oct 8 2009, 02:29 PM']I love playing things like that where there's loads of room for the bass to bloom...[/quote]

Yeah! You don't feel the need to overplay or anything, just let these big fat carefully chosen notes ring out with meaning :-)

The album version of "Heaven Can Wait" has some more instruments on it; rhodes, organ, drums, and some strings. It's on Horse's myspace;

[url="http://www.myspace.com/horserandan"]http://www.myspace.com/horserandan[/url]

Jennifer

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