It's Not About The Gear

It's Not About The Gear: Episode 18

Quicksand

Cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic with me on guitar, vocals and drums.

Rhythm guitar is Benford custom Tele, lead Gordon Smith GS2, both through Zoom G3X with added EHX Soul Food for solo. Drums Yamaha DD-65. All recorded in Ardour on Linux

Need Your Love So Bad

An attempt at some Django Reinhardt. I played my Gordon Smith electric on this plus drums on Yamaha DD-65. I am learning drumming, but I just winged it. The solo is a bit hit and miss as I need to learn to play over the chords.

Electric Minor Swing

I did consider setting House as the genre, but I really don't know what it counts as. It was an experiment that partially worked.

House of the Rising Harmonics

A spontaneous solo during band practice. Played on Yamaha DD-65

Steve Drum Solo

Done for our 'radio' show. Me on everything, including my newish drums

Folsom Prison Blues

A Pink Floyd cover. It's a nice little tune to play, but I'm missing a few of the subtleties. Also, I can hear I rushed a few bits. Been playing it a while, but still needs more work

Goodbye Blue Sky

I had the honour of singing on this amazing collaboration by members of the Six String Bliss guitar community. Nine people around the world contributed to this. My vocal was the first take. I would have been happy to do it again, but they were happy with it

Comfortably Dumb - Hey You

Eels cover record on Zoom H4 using Dean Performer E acoustic. A bit rough, but I just felt like recording it to see how it sounded.

Climbing to the moon

My contribution to the Six String Bliss album project Driven To Bliss. It's a cover of the Porcupine Tree song. Drums and keyboards from an existing MIDI file. The rest is all me.

Production notes at http://studiospoon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/driving-around.html

Hear the rest of the album at http://www.sixstringbliss.com/?p=1235

Open Car

An experiment in putting together a whole track from the drums up. Used Hydrogen for a simple drum track. Audio recorded in Ardour using my Gordon Smith GS2 into Korg Pandora via the PC aux in.

A few playing mistakes, but I'm trying to get the technical issues ironed out. Getting too many xruns from Jack and some distortion on some signals.

Comments welcome

Heavy hornpipes

Seven Nation Army

Amateur guitarist, 'singer' and songwriter. Having fun making music of various sorts. One half of Swing 47 jazz duo. Debut solo album now on Bandcamp

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