Cheating The Reaper
Yes, we are old, fat and/or ugly, but we had a great time. This is what good friends are for, regardless of how ridiculous we look and act.
Damn good. Not so sure about the leopard leotards, however. 
Nice one, phoo. Keep it up dude.
Holy Cow - Is that you on them dar drums?
That’s pretty freakin fantastic there boy.
Got out my BIC lighter for that one.
10 out of 10 ! ! 
You ARE one hell of a drummer, phoo.
Hi phoo:
What a great link…
That drummer and bass player work well together…
Without the “Pocket”, the stage just doesn’t work…
The audio and lighting and video is technically tops…
It all makes for a great finished production…
There’s some nice mics hanging around that drum kit…
Bill…
Yeah - the drums were my favorite part (but I think you need a bigger bass drum 
I missed the keyboard part - was it in the mix somewhere? To me, Pete’s synth was what made that record & those songs.
I forgot to ask you if that is the Ludwig
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Set you’ve been restoring…
If they are the set you post photos of the other week…
I worked on a stage way back in the '60’s, where the drummer had a set of Gretch drums…
The shells if I remember were mahogany I think he still has them…
Anyway, the kick was a deep one and I believe it was 18"
The floor tom was deep and maybe 16"
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What a nice set…
The snare was deep(could have been 5" or 6") and I believe was 14" …
What a great drummer to work with…
Hey…
it’s all memories…
Bill…
Yep, that’s the old Ludwig set that I’ve been restoring. They were painted solid white because they were so mismatched. The kick is red sparkle. One floor tom is blue sparkle. The other two toms are gold sparkle. Regardless they are all from the same vintage.
That’s a 22" kick. I have a 28" now, but didn’t back then. Anyway, that wouldn’t have sounded any better for this stuff. I need to mix the kick a little better for the stereo mix. There’s better kick and bass in the 5.l mix because of the subwoofer. It get lost in the stereo submix. The kick is actually matched to the rest of the set, but doesn’t cut too well when the whole band is playing. I intentionally left it like that for the video and 5.1 because seemed right musically. It’s not a more modern mix, but an earlier mix of those older times. If we ever do more than the DVD with any of this stuff I’ll fix it.
Randy and I have played together since about 1970. We got to a point we didn’t need to look at each other at all to stay together. It’s probably great musically to get that way, but not for stage appearances. We probably look disinterested in each other. Randy was the bass player in Jubal as well. We’ve played almost any kind of music there is together at some time or other. Not only that, we never had to work things out together. It all just fell in place naturally. It’s humbling to be in a band with someone that can EASILY pull off John Entwistle, Chris Squire, Felix and Jack stuff with no effort.
Too bad we’re too old to make a go of it…we’d be dead in less than a week.
Sorry, I forget to comment about the keys.
The keys didn’t get recorded by accident/oversight and I couldn’t hear them back where I was unfortunately. We were lucky to be as close to them as we were, and were off a bit at the beginning anyway.
I had set up to record them, but we had a guest guitarist on a few songs before and I forgot to switch back to the keys after he played (recording channel limitation). The original plan was to have the keys and second guitar on the same side of the stage and recorded channel, so I wouldn’t have to switch mid set. So much of early planning. It didn’t help that we got into the club 4 hours later than we had planned either. We had just enough time to set up and play with a very short sound check.
What got recorded was bleed from the stage mics. There was no way to salvage the keys any better in this song. We were able to get them fixed in the other song Denny played on fortunately, with pretty good results.
TOTALLY AWSOME on this forum too!
awesome, awesome awesome…
Isn’t that nice…
Ange, it don’t matter what the flavor of music is…
When you hear it …
it’s GooD…
Well done…
AND when guys like phoo can navigate from flavor-to-flavor, and make it seamless, it shows others around the music the expirence required to have the ability to do just that…
Blusnose…
talk…
Bill…
p.s.
bubbagump, is another Drummer/Musician, that has that expirence/ability… Well…
phoo! Too old? Do me a favour - the world needs and recognises talent and quality.
Dead in a week? What a way to go;-)
When is the Japan tour?
WIN A FREE TOYOTA
Thanks folks!
Sorry about the M rating…we tried washing out Steve’s mouth soap but all it did make him foam at the mouth more. Some folks never grow up, but sometimes that’s what keeps us young.
Going from style to style is something that is hard to learn. It took years of being comfortable with my own playing before I got to the point I felt like I could actually do it. There’s a lot of styles I still suck at but I can fake most, at least a little. I’m good at the free form stuff, but terrible at anything that requires precision (Neil Pert stuff for example).
Toyota?? I’d love to have a rebuilt Pinto. Move the gas tank. Use non-ford parts…