WalMan

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1362086925' post='1995696'] I'll make sure to come say hi to all of you! I'm also hoping to be able to keep tweeting on my netbook (haven't got a smartphone) from the venue. (They should have some sort of wireless service on offer, I hope.) In any case, if you mention us on Twitter, please use the hashtag [b]#BCatLBGS[/b]. I'm soo looking forward to this weekend! \m/ \m/ [/quote]I'm pretty sure there was free WiFi there last year, mind getting the Blackberry to behave was another matter!

So then, variously: [url="https://soundcloud.com/a-kind-of-fury/monday-morning-hangover-studio"]Monday Morning Hangover[/url]. Demo recorded in Denmark Street for the vocalist who had been the vox in a previous version of the band and was to become again in some different versions that followed (and follow). IIRC it was an Aria SB100 (I think) on a straight DI to the desk. We drove up in the morning. He la la'd through the idea of the song to me and the drummer - who has also been in pretty much all the bands I've been in - in the studio, then we recorded it, so the bass line was written to some la la's & sung parts and recorded along with the drums & a guide vocal. The piano & horms were added after It was quite a few years ago now, but how that worked beats me now, still work it sort of did. [url="https://soundcloud.com/aka_walman/big-wheel?in=aka_walman/sets/all-thats-fiction"]Big Wheel[/url] - All That's Fiction. This followed on from the reformation after the above demo & to do a showcase & some personnel changes. I know I have posted it elsewhere but I like it so This would have been the Wal in it's original passive mode & probably DI'd into the desk, possibly through a Laney 4x10 combo; and finally (well for now) [url="https://soundcloud.com/a-kind-of-fury/the-scoundrel"]The Scoundrel[/url] - A Kind Of Fury. Again with the same vocalist, drummer, and also now guitarist from the ATF track above, but in the reincarnation of a band that at the time was sort of Big Country/U2 I suppose. Again the Wal and still passive. Amp wise, not sure. It could be a GK MB150, or more likely either a Laney or Trace 4x10 combo. Recorded live in the r/h studio we went to and wrote in every Monday evening without fail. Recording was most probably a pair of SM58's into a reel to reel machine the vocalist had. EDIT 2 - Now then I suppose I quite like Thing3 on this old neglected [url="http://www.myspace.com/scatterometer"]MySpace a/c[/url]. Both are cheats bass wise, indeed for all the instruments except the kit & vocal samples on Thing & Soundtrack as they are all Sampletank soft synth/samples played with a keyboard.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1361884129' post='1992357'] Yes, will do. And we will actually speak to each other this year, lol [/quote]Yup will do I shall search out the BC desk

Well there's LOADS I haven't listened to yet - mind a lot of that's by choice - but I'd definitely miss releases by favourite artists as well as finding new stuff with my eMusic sub. I keep thinking I ought to cancel it then something new catches my ear.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1361805420' post='1991130'] A few more additions: [b]Saturday[/b] Walman Not long now, peeps! [/quote] Make that Walman & guitarist son unless he changes his mind again & bales on me. Must sort out the train tickets

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1361812197' post='1991282'] Also, what's food and drink like at this? [/quote]Expensive I think. Mind you to be fair I have steered away from the cafe/food area each year IIRC I picked up a sandwich & some bottles of water @ Sainsburys on the way up last year.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1361797202' post='1990916'] Oooh good, another NK album to buy! Cheers To Be Frank is one of my favourite albums, period. [/quote]8 Takes a little more time to grow for me, but I think it'll be on this afternoons playlist

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1361786547' post='1990632'] He'd never get a deal these days, the music is far too intelligent. It's a sad endictment of how the music industry is more about industry than music. [/quote]Very true sadly. He does have a very distinctive vocal style. I was listening to Genesis Revisited 2 recently on which he does some vox, not having realised when I started, but I knew straightaway. Similar to recognising Steve Morse on guitar.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1361775594' post='1990533'] NK wrote some pretty incredible songs. [/quote]Still does, bringing out an album every few years, including Eight last year.

'twould be useful for a dep I do that plays two or three songs in a different key to that my band does them in, and one where they play a famous riff around the second fret that was originally open, and would be far easier down a tone (and not just for me but the vocalist). Still I just soldier on transposing on the fly (most of the time). Occasionally muscle memory takes over briefly and puts me in the wrong key.

[quote name='Mrs Tinman' timestamp='1361276610' post='1983677'] Me too! I was there both nights and had seen them in Koblenz a couple of weeks prior, t'was The Manic Street Preachers that opened the gig. Have probably seen them around 12-15 times [/quote]D'you know I thought it was the Manics but could not remember. It's all a bit of a blur. Went up with my drummer & a couple of other mates & we shared a room in a hotel near by. I do remember getting there checking in & being asked by another guest at the hotel as we were heading off to the gig if we were roadies

Well I have to say I saw BJ @ MK Bowl with (I think Little Angels, Billy Idol & ?) and it was a bloody good gig & there are a number of DL songs that I really like as well. Heigh ho

on iPlayer [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Danny%20Baker%27s%20Great%20Album%20Showdown"]HERE[/url] (hopefully) Anyone else watched these? I have watched the Pop & Rock ones so far and have R&B on the +Box to come back too. From the two I've seen so far, good shows with intelligent chat about music and some interesting snippets. I always thought J Clarkson was a major AOR/Prog fan, but he is also a closet punk & well into The Clash. Who'dathunk? More BBC

Saturday. Not too bad. Made more mistakes in the second set than the first after being jinxed by someone saying it didn't notice that I was depping DOH! Crowd were OK-good & I got to do my usual one song lead vox. Getting more confident with that. Might go for others in the future. Started with the Squier P but changed to the red L2500 after a couple of songs and had good sounds going with that.

[quote name='zazz' timestamp='1361106937' post='1981084'] thats an oddball wal ....its a pro ...but with two pickups ...was it active?? [/quote]It has history Originally when I bought it secondhand (but I am pretty sure virtually new) it was a single pup passive Pro1, Volume, tone & a mini coil tap switch plus jack out on the tear drop control mount Then I got a Wal cover from Pete (amazing considering when I was looking to replace the bridge I would have had to take the old bridge off & send it back before he'd send the replacement) anyway got the Wal cover, Kent Armstrong made a pup to go inside & my local go to guitar man fitted it back at the bridge. The tone became a second volume as I tended to just run it full on anyway. It would have been this configuration for this video. Finally in '96 I took it up to Pete @ Wal for a general overhaul, but was shown another Pro1 like mine being retrofitted with Custom electrics and got that done instead, replacing the Kent Armstrong pup for a proper Wal, adding the updated all string tree (rather than the tree that only covered the A & D originally) and moving the jack to the edge along with an XLR out, that got used when I was having trouble with an old Trace combo cutting out at gigs, so I kept an XLR to the desk at hand and used it straight to the PA more than once to great effect. The controls went onto an enlarged panel and there is an access plate on the back for the micro switches & battery. Controls are the standard Vol with pull pick attack, sweep & 2 x tone with pull switches that narrow the tone Q IIRC. And that is how it remains to this day. My baby It was always a pretty solid sound as a passive but adding the actives opened it up to something else altogether. I was told by Pete that the original passive Pro1's were always intended to have the retrofit available to add at a later date, but I would never have known unless I had arranged to go up that fateful day in '96.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1360854958' post='1977475'] This video is older than me then! [/quote] You, young master (better say that, he's a mod) can do one [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360854821' post='1977473'] Pretty much any music put on YouTube ends up linked via the NME site. My take on it is that they do it cover themselves, just in case the band turns out to be successful they can claim to have had them on the NME site way back when... [/quote] How to dash a persons hopes & dreams in one easy lesson [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1360861417' post='1977590']Damn that is one top class slug balancing act you've got going on there mate, you should be on the telly ...[/quote] Ayethangyou

I do indeed have the Wal, though it morphed from the original Pro to Custom in '96. Still playing with the drummer & guitarist too. The porn star 'tache is generally a thing of the past, though facial hair does recur occasionally.

... well OK NME Online ... make that in the NME Online Video section ... OK it's just a link the the video I posted on YouTube, but still I'M IN NME [url="http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/2nukvdXth8o"]http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/2nukvdXth8o[/url] What a dodgy 'tache & hair cut I had at the time. IIRC when we recorded the clip for the show MrsW was in hospital awaiting the arrival of #1 son & I was praying he didn't put in an early appearance so I was called away (well that would have been difficult pre mobiles) or had to cry off at the last minute

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1360771348' post='1976217'] And if I'm allowed to have a Bonzos song as well, I would like to have this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4vUaNQKHk[/media] I hadn't seen this version before - found it on Youtube. Very silly and very funny. Spot the deliferate mistale with the lyrics at about 3.00 [/quote]ah yes. Do Not Adjust Your Set. We had proper kids programmes in those days didn't we

Oh dear. Which Tubes song to choose!? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mCA1he1zM[/media] for the beginning of the second verse or [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjfi1DU1mQ[/media] which of course is where I nicked the first line in my sig from. Love this band and the bases they cover in styles, and always go to see them at least once on the rare occasions they make it over here

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1360406262' post='1969823'] It's Saturday morning, I've just received my wages, actually remembered to order my ticket, got to the website and now the we wife's playing silly beggars and won't let me order one. Where else can I get one from? [/quote]If you're looking to go on Saturday, then possibly me as I think I [i]may[/i] have one to spare