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I'm feeling nostalgic these days. I played with these guys for at least 10 years and it formed me musically. Playing bars and festivals night after night sometimes with packed rooms of people other times empty rooms but we always gave all we had. Travelling in horrible weather from town to town playing everything from Sam and Dave to motown and some good old rockin' blues. Big Jimmy was the front man singing most of the tunes until one day we didn't have a drummer so he sat down at the kit and started playing. We didn't even know he could drum. So he became a front man drummer. He wasn't a flashy drummer but could lay down a good groove with a strong back beat and knew how to swing. Jimmy left us a couple of years ago and is now in music heaven and I guess I posted this because I've been thinking of him lately and how he influenced me musically. Dave played a hammond B3 with a leslie. On numerous gigs the belt that turned the horn in his leslie would bust so we would find a 7-11 and buy some pantyhose and he would rig up a belt with them that would run the leslie and get us through the gig. Larry played an old 60's precision bass and sometimes guitar on his own songs and I would fill in as the bass player. I played my old 63 jazz master through a twin and still play and love it to this day.
I dug this old tune out of a box last week and all I had was a cassette of an analogue recording we did back then. It was pretty warbly in spots and there were and still is some clicks and pops. I transferred it into garageband and played around with some EQ and brought up the highs which were lost from the generations of tape. Then took it into audacity and worked on it some more trying to remove the hiss and other noises. There is a click and a pop at the start that I just couldn't remove.
Our band did lots of original tunes and we all were songwriters ... this is one we did that I wrote about my guitar ... a love song LOL
I thought about re-doing it and decided to just post it as it was played back then. It's pretty well live in the room and how we sounded so I decided to post it as a tribute to these guys. In this tune Don Buchanan joined us with his sax.
So Here it is ....
Jim Wayner drums
Dave Fearnall organ
Larry Jensen Bass
Don Buchanan sax
Me guitar vocals
and I have to give credit to Sammy who was our sound man and he did his magic at the end of a snake with the board
I dug this old tune out of a box last week and all I had was a cassette of an analogue recording we did back then. It was pretty warbly in spots and there were and still is some clicks and pops. I transferred it into garageband and played around with some EQ and brought up the highs which were lost from the generations of tape. Then took it into audacity and worked on it some more trying to remove the hiss and other noises. There is a click and a pop at the start that I just couldn't remove.
Our band did lots of original tunes and we all were songwriters ... this is one we did that I wrote about my guitar ... a love song LOL
I thought about re-doing it and decided to just post it as it was played back then. It's pretty well live in the room and how we sounded so I decided to post it as a tribute to these guys. In this tune Don Buchanan joined us with his sax.
So Here it is ....
Jim Wayner drums
Dave Fearnall organ
Larry Jensen Bass
Don Buchanan sax
Me guitar vocals
and I have to give credit to Sammy who was our sound man and he did his magic at the end of a snake with the board
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alackbass
Awesome! So cool to hear a bit of where you came from! Great band! Really digging the organ. You did a great job with the mastering. I hear no pops or clicks. At first I thought you did a new recording on your own. I was even more impressed when I learned you had taken this from an old cassette.