Let's hear your stuff - LIVE!

ram · Post by **ram** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:08 am

Hey just was turned on to some room mic 'bootleg' recordings of some of our tunes last Saturday night. The actual recording is kinda nasty but what do you want for free? By no stretch a polished recording but was fun!
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=132766
The top three were from the gig.

johnashfield · Post by **johnashfield** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:23 am

Right on Tom! Very cool stuff!

walker · Post by **walker** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:47 am

Hey Tom - thanks for posting the tracks! You guys kicked butt! Nice job.

ram · Post by **ram** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:40 am

Thanks guys for the kind words. I didn't even know we were being recorded - a friend had a small MP3 recorder.

Mark how was the new band's first outing? Any pics or recordings?

walker · Post by **walker** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:24 am

Hey Tom - How was our first outing? I'll sum it up in one word for you:

"Eh..."

Deb our new drummer was actually really good. She wins the prize for least amount of F-ups between the three of us. We weren't TERRIBLE; we rocked and had a good time, the crowd seemed to like us well enough, but I couldn't hear my vocs very well in the monitors, and subsequently my singing was all over the place. I will say, though that my bass sounded Freaking AMAZING. I'm tempted to post an excerpt from the "Eh..." show just to show a glimpse of the bass tone.

I posted a pic from the show under the 'Picture of you playing your Ric...part 2' thread.

ram · Post by **ram** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:30 am

A case of the Eh..s,, happens from time to time. As long as you all didn't stink up the joint and everyone was having fun... that's all that really matters - the joys of live performance! It happens - no retakes. I do love it so.

Would like to hear a snippett for Nightmare tonality.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:54 pm

I enjoyed those tunes, Tom, very cool stuff!

walker · Post by **walker** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:29 pm

Hey Tom -

I've posted a small section of the show so you can check out the bass tone. It's pretty rough, so I'll probably take it down in a few days.

This Mind soundcheck

I played through my SWR-400 head & the house Marshall 4x12 cab. I had to sweet talk the sound guy into letting me play my bass through it. It sounded great. The sustain was so prominent that I felt compelled to play with a much lighter attack than usual. It was like riding a powerful racing cycle - you have to be careful letting out the clutch so the bike doesn't just take off from underneath you.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:34 pm

Is that all horseshoe, Mark? What's the tremolo pedal youre using?

walker · Post by **walker** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:01 pm

Hey John - Both pickups are up. The horseshoe does dominate a little. The tremolo effect is from my ART rack-mount unit. It's kind of noisy for recording, but works fine for gigs.

ram · Post by **ram** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:30 pm

Joey - Thanks man!

Mark - that bass sounds good live! Rings nice with good undertow. Was that a PA mix or room mic? Thanks for the soundage!

walker · Post by **walker** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:35 pm

PA mix. The bass was mic'd 4x12 + direct. There might have been bleed from the drum mics also.

alexrocks · Post by **alexrocks** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:51 pm

my band through a camera phone: very distorted but YOU CAN FEEL THE RAWK! caution: naughty words!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMY06rdJX0

ram · Post by **ram** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:07 am

Too bad the quality not so good - looks like everyone was having fun. A lot of sound for just two guys. I watched a couple of the other Small White vids there - too bad no Ric content there (least not that I saw). Anyhow keep on keeping ON!

alison2112 · Post by **alison2112** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:15 am

Hey, all! The band I'm in is called The Madams. We consist of 5 ladies and we are influenced by bands such as The Pretenders, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, etc.

We have 2 shows coming up and then we'll be on hiatus for awhile.

Thursday, March 15th @ The Blue Cafe 9pm
PCH & Warner by Tsunami Sushi in Huntington Beach, CA

Wednesday, March 21st @ Gallagher's Pub @ 9:30pm
Downtown Huntington Beach, CA

Stop by if you want to!