I rely on an EQ I put together using old parts from a radio shack speak and spell, assembled in an old coffee can.
Hills Brothers or Folgers? That's key you know. The rigidity rings molded in certain cans can solidify the signal processing and eliminate any unwanted reverberation. For reverb I rely on a unit I made from a retired pogo stick spring and a Studebaker rear quarter panel.
the noise from a coffee grinder grinding the colombian coffee you just emptied from the yuban can to make the eq/reverb unit (some use ‘brim’, but i don’t recommend it on account of its low bass response) gives you that great ‘tape saturation’ that everyone seems to crave in this digital age. and if you shoot holes in your hard drive, you can achieve other great ‘vintage tape’ effects like variable-speed warbling and tape being eaten by the machine because the capstain decided to hold a vendetta against me this time for kicking it last week even though i just now laid down the most awesome take of my pan flute solo.
The dude is a fabulous musician… no doubt about it. quiet sneaky voice I have actually wanted to buy one of his CD’s off the TV offers… but I’m afraid my R&R head-bangin’ buddies will find out… Sssshhhh…
I hate to say it Ian, but Smoke On The Water and Purple Haze where playing on the supermarket pa system the other week, made me feel really really old!
I hate to say it Ian, but Smoke On The Water and Purple Haze where playing on the supermarket pa system the other week, made me feel really really old!
Welcome to "Story Time with Diogenes"... (GROANnnn...)
Many, many moons ago, when I worked with my dad, we were repairing the scoreboard at a high school football field. The marching band were on the practice field next door doing their thang... I thought "Geez, that sounds familiar... nah..." A few minutes go by and it kept bugging me so I stepped out of the press box where the scoreboard controller was located so I could hear better... "WHOA! It IS what I thought it was!" They were doing Rush' La Villa Strangiato! I ran down the band director and found another fellow Rush head. Who'd thought it?
I can see a marching band doing Rush, would take a drum corp to pull off Mr. Peart!
Never, ever do acid and watch football game on tv, the little dudes will jump off the screen and start running around your room, it’s like Army of the Dead gone bad, real bad!
that must have been in canada. or that director was on acid.
Heh... would you believe a rural farming town of less than 5,000 people in North Alabama? Seriously. That's why I was so shocked. I thought my brother and I were the only two guys in the whole COUNTY who even knew Rush existed.
Of course, dude took several "liberties" in arranging it for a marching band... but it was fargin' awesome! As a matter of fact, I think that was the only football game I went to that year. I had already graduated and was too "cool" for silly stuff like that but I went when they played me Alma Tater so I could see/hear their band.
Good times man... (a hunnert and sixty seven years ago...)
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EDIT: I think I'll call up Zamfir... see if I can talk him into doing a cover of "La Vila Strangiato"...
