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8mileshigher wrote:To: Johnnie-Leftie4001

If you're game, let's give Floyd's "One of these Days" a test run at BARC !

Meantime, if you are referring to Echo & Bunnymen's "Killing Moon" enclosed is a chord-chart

I've got a wonky guitar effects processor (korg axg1500) that has an echo delay that should work for "One of These Days", just don't touch the plug.

Echo and the Bunnymen's "Killing Moon" ready to go. I can't sing when I play, so have it.

I was actually asking about the song "Killing Floor" by Howlin' Wolf. I was wondering that songs key in reference to the blues jam.

OK, looks like there's some interest in my 650C with the 500k volume pot mod, so I'll put new strings on it and bring it along with my '64 375 and a 12er. I think I need to buy another stand!

I'll bring:
'64 375
'00 650C w/500k vol pots
'96 360-12WB (maybe '72 360-12 S if I have time to put on flatwounds and intonate)
Modded '77 deluxe reverb for the jam room
Pedal board with new addition: DIY Tone Bender MKII fuzz
'77 Vibro Champ for trying stuff out in the showroom
Cooler of bevvies

Last year we did one or two Who tunes (Can't Explain and Pinball Wizard, I think). I hope we can try Airplane's White Rabbit again, too. Are The Bobbleheads playing a set?

Looking forward to BARC III!

analogpackrat wrote:OK, looks like there's some interest in my 650C with the 500k volume pot mod, so I'll put new strings on it and bring it along. Are The Bobbleheads playing a set?

Looking forward to BARC III!

Doug, are those push-pull, coil tap pots on the 650 Colorado ?? My 650 Atlantis has stock pots, whatever these Atlantis models came with, from the early '90s

My understanding is John A and the Bobbleheads are attending, per their response on the Facebook event page. John A. also got himself a 650 model earlier this year, from pictures he posted.

This might be appropriate for our BARC jam ....
I saw that RRF member Mike Snow had posted this picture of a sign from his band's European tour ...

Well, once again, the Universe bites me in the rear. It looks like I'm probably not going to be able to make it after all this Saturday, as I now have to work.

If I can get out early, I will swing up there, but like the last time I tried that, it was all over and done before I could get there.

I'll do my best though......

Sorry to hear that Gareth, I was looking forward to seeing that monstrous bass rig !

Rich has asked me about songs and what I do and I'll add just a bit of input about what I enjoy playing. Mostly Beatles and Byrds, Anything Rubber Soul era, 'Nowhere Man,' 'We Can Work it Out,' etc. Others are 'Help' era, 'Hard Day's Night' 'Eight Days A Week,' 'I Should've Known Better,' well, you sort of get the picture. My all time fave Byrds song is 'Feel A Whole Lot Better,' and of course 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' 'All I Really Want to Do...'

I do early Who, like 'Can't Explain,' 'Talkin' 'Bout My Generation.' I do some Kinks' stuff, the early stuff of course. I was 17 in 1965, so anything from that era. I'm pretty much open to anything of any era. I'm a huge Tom Petty fan, but I haven't learned a lot of his stuff. Just tell me the chords and I'll play it. Of course I can't sing worth ****...

I think Kira is adding some play lists as well, it's all good.

I'm really looking forward to Saturday since I was 'asleep at the wheel' last year's BARC

I'll be bringing my 360/12V64 and 330/6, didn't think there was much point in bringing my long scale John Lennon Ltd. Edition 350 unless someone wants to see it ?

Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new friends !

Gary in Santa Rosa

Ooops,

I forgot to add, I'll bring my just serviced and re-tubed 63 Fender Vibroverb ri amp, 35 watts, guitar stands, cooler with ice and water, maybe a beer or two. I'm driving a Toyota Tacoma extended cab, so I only have room for the amp and two or three guitars and cooler...and most importantly, $20

Gary F ( modrock )

modrock wrote: Of course I can't sing worth ****...
Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new friends !
Gary in Santa Rosa

Modrock --- I heard some excellent vocals and guitar playing on several recordings you posted awhile back on the RRF .... so we were planning on enlisting you to be one of our premier singers at the Jam
So don't get no cold-feet on us ....

Thanks for your input on songs that you know, as it will help other jammers practice up a few songs ahead of time .... bring your Lennon 350 too, if you can, as the more Toasters, the better !!

Ha ! Sorry Rich, but that was my brother taking the vocals. I might do Feel A Whole Lot Better.....

See you this weekend Rich !

modrock wrote:Ha ! Sorry Rich, but that was my brother taking the vocals. I might do Feel A Whole Lot Better.....

See you this weekend Rich !

OK -- tell your brother he's coming to the Jam... his local Ricken Jam draft board has just enlisted his singing services !!

BARC is happening this Saturday, May 18th

BARC ----- Bay Area Rickenbacker Confluence 2013

In case the details of where/when are buried somewhere back on the proceeding pages of this thread ,,,,
Day: Saturday, May 18th 2013
Time: 1 PM to 7 PM

Location: Music Spectrum Rehearsal Studio
43 Bay Street, San Rafael (415) 459 2259
very near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge terminus and convenient to get there for East Bay residents, North Bay residents and San Francisco-Peninsula-San Jose residents or from the Larkspur ferry,

Cost: studio rental cost split among the participants, likely less than $20 each depending upon the number of participants.

Directions:
http://www.musicspectrum.net/marin-music-rehearsal.html


Please bring sufficient guitar & bass stands to display your Rics !!

You can check out pictures from last year's BARC gathering at:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=405453

Sorry to hear you can't make it, Gareth. I was hoping to hear you play this time! We'll all miss seeing your bass collection. I hope we have a backup plan for the bass rig.

Rich--I put regular pots in my 650. I wasn't sure the push-pull types would fit in the shallow cavity. And they only come in the mini types that I don't care for very much. It would be nice to be able to split the coils on it. As far as I know the 650 series all ship with 250k volume and tone pots, but obviously some are waaay out of spec. I'm putting 10-46 round wounds on mine...what do you use?

Gary--if you can find some lyric/chord sheets for the songs you want to play, I'm sure people will give them a shot. Looking forward to seeing you again and hearing your Vibroverb. Does the RI have the harmonic vibrato?

Hi Doug, I'd better start practising my vocals, hopefully no laughs my friends.

The Vibroverb was the first amp Fender made with built in reverb so I'm told. Mine is a Brea, CA 1991 re-issue from SF Guitar Center when it was still on Mission Street :

http://ampwares.com/amplifiers/767/

It has spring reverb and built in 'speed' and 'intensity' knobs in a light beige tweed face cloth with brown tolex, a typical Fender circuit ( 2 6L6GC, 12 AX7 and 12 AT7 ) though updated with solid state rectifier in place of the GZ-34 ( I think that's the designation ). I can get a nice 'Born On the Bayou' sound out of it, but I can't sing like John Fogerty, nor can I sing as well as Gene Clark. I sang some harmonies in my band back in the 70s when we played one of the many bars in Chico when I was a student there. We didn't even have monitors at that time. I could handle a 9 pm - 2 am gig back then, the pay was terrible, but we had fun. We didn't have monitors to hear ourselves sing, and most of the crowd were drunk, so it didn't really matter. We were paid a part of the $1 door and all the beer we could drink. Our last set was Gloria, Wild Thing, etc, because we were almost blind from beer at that time and most of the audience had left or passed out by the last set. 3 chords max I was lucky to get $25, but it was soooo much fun, and I had much more stamina at 26 than I do now at 65. I used a Deluxe Reverb back then with a second hand Les Paul standard that still smells of a grimy, smoky bar. No effects pedals other than blowing it to volume number 11 , and over-driving it. Served me well at the time, but man, stale cigarettes and beer ruined that amplifier. It was fun, and that's what counted. It would be years before I'd finally have a Rickenbacker guitar. I keep kicking myself because there were so many pre CBS Stratocasters for sale back then for less than $300..but I was a poor student and that was a huge sum in 1974 when I was living on a $380 per month G.I. Bill check. Chico was probably the only place you could manage on that paltry amount, I had to supplement my GI Bill with farm labor in the summers and semester breaks in the vineyards in and around Lodi, CA where I grew up ....sorry for the lengthy digression. Everyone is welcome to use my amplifier if you choose to, looking forward to seeing you all again, and hopefully meeting new friends.

This : http://ampwares.com/amplifiers/767/ is a great site for info on Fender amps from past to present for those of you who still play them.

For BARC----
Johnnie-lefty4001 and Hieronymous Harry and Bobbleheads and other Bassists

Please bring your Bass amplifiers to BARC, just to be safe not sorry, with the uncertain status of Gareth's work schedule.

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Also, everyone who has drummer connection(s), please enlist/bring your drummer pals so we can rotate drummers throughout the afternoon. Drummers should bring their favorite cymbals ! ! The rest of the drum kit is provided by Music Spectrum

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If folks can enclose song sheets, chord charts/tabs, lyric sheets, etc. etc. as attached files or download links here on the BARC thread for any tunes they are interested in having folks give a try, for the jam, it will be much appreciated.

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And one more time ---- everyone bring sufficient guitar and bass stands for your instruments!

Johnnie-lefty4001 and Hieronymous Harry and Bobbleheads and other Bassists

Please bring your Bass amplifiers to BARC, just to be safe not sorry, with the uncertain status of Gareth's work schedule.


I'll bring what I have, but if anyone has a 1x12 or 1x15 extension cabinet (8 ohms, speaker cable too), then the BabyBlue II should work in the room with a drummer. It won't shake the walls, though. What do the other bassists have?

I contacted Bananas at Large, but they did not have anything to rent.

Emeryville GC is on the way. 30 day return policy, right?