So a few people have asked me about the new songs we've been writing over the past few months. I did some preliminary recording today of riffs which will show up on the new CD. This photo might give you some idea of the sound I've been looking for...for the last six months I've been listening to Jimmie Vaughan, Peter Green's early Fleetwood Mac songs, The Stooges (again!), Freddie King and, to balance off the blues, the greatest hits from OMD (yes you remember them and you love "If You Leave"--admit it!) and The Chills. We'll be recording this CD ourselves as we did the first one...this is a shot of the guitar set-up I've been using: and new Gibson Melody Maker, my old Fender Champ, and a few pedals (that's an Homebrew Uno Mos booster which sound very Faces-like with the Gibson and the Champ). That's great for you gear-heads, but what is the new sound? I'll post a rough demo of one of the new songs, "The Jackson Stomp," in the next few days. Since Rosie and Ben both have songs about them, we figured Jackson the bunny should be next...!
2 comments:
shoving food in my face, reading this blog for the first time in a few months and i see that roland is no longer in the band, at least according to the info at the top. was there some sort of roth/hagar tension between jackson and roland? will this tear apart the band? will spil now do standards and flaccid love songs?
seriously, though, can't wait to hear your new recordings.
You are correct, wampahoofus...Roland has gone on to other, if not better, things. He got traded to the fine folks at Midwest Buy and Sell about a month ago. I like to think of the tension as more of an Ozzy/Dio thing...you can like "Vol. 4" and "Heaven and Hell," but you can't have Ozzy singing "Neon Knights" and Dio singing "Supernaut"...one had to go. There's a brand new song up on our My Space page which I just put up on Sunday night so you can hear what we're going to sound like next...it's called "Pioneer Days."
Post a Comment