Well, I figure the best way to celebrate a birthday is to be out playing so that's what I'll be doing tonight at Whistle Binkies' in Edinburgh. I've asked a colleague to get some decent photos of me this time - fingers crossed she remembers her camea. Also coming up, Saturday the 30th, we'll be at the Foresthill arms in Auchtermuchty.
Happy Birthday!!
Hey, Thanks dave. Stuck at work just now but it won't be long till I escape ;-)
Graeme
As Dave said, Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Graeme. Have a great one and make sure you get a solo! LOL
Bill, tgo
Happy Birthday, Graeme, and many more.
(May you receive Alembics as birthday presents!)
Thanks for the good wishes guys, it wasn't one of the important numbers like Paul TOBOs last birthday. It turned out the gig was a 40 minute showcase (in the hope of getting a proper gig at that venue sometime in the future) which went over really quickly. I used my Rogue throughout, played through the house bass rig, - an Ashdown Mag300 head into a 4x10. On stage it sounded really boomy but Mike Pisanek out in the audience said it sounded really tight at the bottom end but a bit 'middly' on the higher strings. Whatever: it's turned me right off ashdown.
No Alembic birthday presents David, just a loan of Mikes 6 string graphite upright for a few weeks while his country band takes a break. The fingerboard feels about twice the width of my rogue 5! Should be fun learning to play the thing.
Graeme
Uprights are a whole lot of fun, Graeme. Try using two or three fingers together on you picking hand to act as a kind of flipper. It makes for a more whole sound with good control and also gives your indivudual picking or strumming fingers a break.