To lose one drummer may be considered a blessing. Losing four sounds like the drummer might not be the problem. Have you tried being nice to them?I hope he's the one because in 12 months he's our fifth drummer
To lose one drummer may be considered a blessing. Losing four sounds like the drummer might not be the problem. Have you tried being nice to them?
Seriously, good luck with this one. Life can easily get in the way of a serious hobby like you folk have, and getting several people's free time (and temperaments!) to overlap consistently isn't easy.
Blackie sounds phenomenal - One leg, broken back and was still drumming up to a point? Incredible.
ah sry yeah that's too far from me atm, not due up that way for a while though it's probably time the wee man met the extended northern rellies.The verses aren't very singalong friendly (or singer friendly, the way I scan them!) and the chorus is so short, but it's such a great tune. I originally learned it because I used to have to trek miles after Mum as she wandered off trying to find her Mum, or her "real home", or just to get away from me, the one who kept interfering with her life... or trying to keep her safe from herself, as I preferred to call it.
Don't worry, it was late and I like a big paragraph.
The good news is that I have an email today saying they might have found a pianist familiar with such music, and I think a lot of these older tunes work far better with the keyboards (organ) and sustained notes they were originally intended to be backed by. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! Time will tell. There's a little more pressure to get things right in a serious (to them and therefore to me) situation than at the dementia group, where -- I'm very pleased to say! -- they love a good mistake... the more embarrassing the better.
For the record, I'm in that strange little suburb of both Manchester and London (darned trains!) previously known as Macclesfield.
Lots of useful tips there already, thanks. I'm sure between those I can already manage and those I can already play/remember I can have a decent go at it, so don't go to any great lengths on my account. After all, they may find that pianist! But I really appreciate your input. One of the fascinating things about this forum has always been how varied the experience on it despite our nerdy computing roots.
I’m after a Jaguar shape case, maybe it’s just me being do specific
Ernie Ball 9-42 on my strat. 10s on my Les Paul.
I'll write something up when they arrive and I change them. Might be a week or so because the current set still have some life in them.
Yeah I've used EB slinkys (9s) on my humbucker guitar but will be trying something else, preferably with a slightly heavier G string as the nut groove is a bit too big for the slinky string (At some point I'll ask a tech to sort it out). The slinkys are nickle wound, I do wonder if a different metal might give a better tone with my pickups.
Better is always subjective, but different definitely. The hybrids I mentioned in my previous post are a cobalt wound Ernie ball set. I prefer the sound and feel, but the coating seems to come off fairly easily.
