Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I created a draft at MySpace yesterday. It is a work in progress. For some reason the songs that I posted did not show up on the site yet.

Here is the URL if anyone is interested.

http://www.myspace.com/brianmedway

Looks like you have a coupla friends already.
BTW, it just occurred to me that your band's music somehow reminds me of this band. Cannot figure out why. Yes, i know they came later!

Not even close to the old band Sheena. Even though the singles released show a different dimension we were actually a much "heavier" band in real life.

We did a lot of R&B and blues based material as well as what is now commonly referred to British Invasion material.

That's one of the reasons I cringe when I hear this old stuff. It really does not represent what we sounded like, in a "live" performance very well at all.

I know, i know. It was just an association. Partly visual, perhaps. As always, i cannot explain why it occurred to me.
How about the live recordings? Did any of these "survive" or were they "lost in time"?

I have a "live" in the studio recording (except for minor processing on the vocal track afterwards) of myself with another "line-up" shortly after the demise of Meddy's People. It started off as a spontaneous warm up song. In fact it was partly original but the M8 was borrowed from an old song. It became a tune that I played a lot.

It actually sounds quite a lot like the old band in many ways.

So... how about sharing it with us?

Brian, I just listened to Sha la la la Lee, don't have the time to read the whole thread but thought it was a great sounding record, did you sing and play lead? I thought the whole band sounded good with the lead vocalist and lead guitarist being very good with an excellent sound for that era. It was a little too poppy for me, I would have rocked it a little more but besides that I thought it was really good, especially for 1966.
I got really good at centering 45's with my finger years ago.

Bob in this instance, our rhythm guitarist was the lead singer on both of the tunes posted. I sang backup and played lead on my Rickenbacker 375 FG six string through a Vox AC30 on Sha La La La Lee. I used my 360/12 FG on the other tune.

Thanks for your kind comments. It is a little too pop based for my taste as well.

Sheena, I am working on getting that other song I mentioned in this thread to you.

Work keeps getting in the way.

If anyone is interested (but why would you be I suppose?) there are now four songs that I have recorded, posted on this site:

http://www.myspace.com/brianmedway

Feel free to rate them, as I would be interested to read any comments that my fellow forumites might have.

Cool! Actually, i've heard all the four songs before... But you have 2 friends only?! That's strange... You need some PR, i guess.

Hi Sheena,

The site was and still is under construction. It was also somewhat disabled so I have not really invited anyone outside to take a look. I'll e-mail it to others when I figure out how to do that. For me that's a function of being able to spend some more time sorting out the site.

Well, it's easy, in fact. Either you, when you are logged in at myspace, chose a profile of the one who you want to invite (lots of them are listed in "Artists" section) and click on "Add to friends" button below the pic, thus sending a "Friend request", or just wait until others send you a request (for instance, if you post the link to your site in a certain thread in "Artists" section, you'll get quite a few requests, methinks).
(btw, i get "friend requests" almost every day, from different people, music sites mostly. Still got no idea how people find me!)

Thank you Sheena. You are so helpful and thoughtful too.

Good songs Brian, your voice on Photographs reminds me of Steve Perry of Journey.