New Band????

[yorick]

Off to audition for a new band tonight. Learnt 13 1/2 songs since Sunday!!. Admittedly one or two are "work in progress", but hey....... I'm up for it, and have a laugh at the same time

[Musky]

Good luck with that.

What sort of material are they doing?

[yorick]

It's Free/Bad company/Paul Rodgers/Queen stuff. Basically covering Paul Rodgers' career.

[leschirons]

[quote name='yorick' post='712238' date='Jan 14 2010, 09:47 AM']It's Free/Bad company/Paul Rodgers/Queen stuff. Basically covering Paul Rodgers' career.[/quote]

That sounds like a great gig to get. Can't go wrong with that stuff. Best of luck tonight.

Ps, after Free and before Bad Company, I saw Paul Rogers in another band he'd put together called Peace. Only saw them once at the Cook's Ferry Inn in Edmonton. Think it fell to bits after about 4 gigs and then he had Bad Company up and running.

[gary mac]

Good luck, hope you get the gig.


I'm involved in a new band project and last night we played a few Free numbers.


Decided not to go for the obvious ones. One we tried was Travellin' in Style. It sounded brilliant, so simple, but so enjoyable.

[yorick]

Well, audition went well. Only fluffed a couple of bits. AND................... i'm in. First gig 13th Feb. Plenty of time to learn another 40 odd songs!!!!

[gary mac]

Good man, chuffed for you.

[witterth]

where's the gig yorik? I may turn up!!!
half term and all that so....

[yorick]

[quote name='witterth' post='713366' date='Jan 15 2010, 08:19 AM']where's the gig yorik? I may turn up!!!
half term and all that so....[/quote]

To quote the singer.... "somewhere in Derby"!!! More details to follow..........

Cheers guys.

[oldslapper]

Congrats! brilliant stuff!
If you come down south west I'll come and have a yodel, PR one of my fav singers.
john

[HMX]

Congratulations! Good luck with the learning of the songs and the gig

I have my first gig with my new band on the 5th February. I'm psyched.

[KevB]

Also in The Firm with Page and briefly had a project called The Law as well as his solo stuff and the Muddy Waters tribute album, plenty of material to draw on through the years. I saw him 10yrs or so back on a solo tour and wasn't expecting much but I was knocked out by how good a shape his voice was still in and it was a good mix of his career in the set, great night.

[Marvin]

Saw him at Milton Keynes Bowl in the early 90's supporting ZZ Top. Awesome vocalist.
Only just got into Free, have I been missing out over the years!

Congratulations

Edited January 15, 2010 by Marvin

[Sarah5string]

Congrats dude! Learning that many songs is no mean feat!

[yorick]

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='713918' date='Jan 15 2010, 03:42 PM']Congrats dude! Learning that many songs is no mean feat![/quote]

Cheers, Sarah. And to you, as well

[artisan]

job well done mate congrats.
i know what hard work that is as i've just joined a new band doing a lot of Chic & Sister Sledge / funk stuff,which is a big culture shock for me after 30 years of playing blues/classic rock.

obviously what you now need is a nice short scale Gibson bass (ala Andy Fraser) & there just so happens to be one in the for sale section .
APPOLOGIES FOR SHAMELESS & RATHER PATHETIC PLUG

Edited January 15, 2010 by artisan

[6stringbassist]

Ha, this is my old gig. Nigel replied to my wanted advert for a replacement bass player last week.

I met him last night, and he seems like a really nice guy and I hope he enjoys himself.

And good luck with learning all of the songs, there are some really nice bass lines in the Free stuff. I never actually got around to learning most of it, I just used to make it up .