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I decided to get a new band
I decided to get a new band
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waltertore
1028 posts
Feb 05, 2011
10:45 AM
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Last night I tried to do amplified harp with the one man band. I taped 2 harp racks together and duct taped a shure 57 to one and butted it up against the harp in the second rack. I duct taped the 2 racks together (I use the cheapo $8 jimmy reed kind) and wrapped the harp in rag trying to get a cupping effect. The bassiness on the 57 picked up the vocals way too much and the vocal condensor mic picked up the acoustic harp too much. the gist is didn't like the sound. Not being able to hold the mic when amped loses the cupping effect so I decided to build my own band so I could free my hands up.
This set up reminds of the band sound that I had going during the late 70's-early 80's before I totally let go of playing amped harp and went to standing off the vocal mic. It brought back memorie of those club gigs when people got down and with you. The mix reflects the sound I remember hearing onstage as we played.
I first recorded the guitar and drums on my feet, then the keys, and last the harp. I used a shure 57, stock delta frost in C, and a stock princeton reverb reissue (with eurotubes)
If I could get a real band like this going, I would give the one man band a rest for awhile. Overdubbing is time consuming and I really don't like that it isn't totally spontaneous. I did one take on each instrument. At least that made it kind spontobeat and like it would be when I sit in with a real band. Walter
going back to my younger days with the harp
can I love you just for tonight
here is the song I did as a pure 1 man band
cry little baby cry
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 05, 2011 1:24 PM
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bluemozark
27 posts
Feb 06, 2011
8:26 AM
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>If I could get a real band like this going, I would give the one man band a rest for awhile.<
That sounds like the best idea. Why not go that route?
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waltertore
1033 posts
Feb 06, 2011
9:29 AM
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bluesmozark: thanks for the encouragement! I have done that route for 20 years as a full time player and 30 or so overall. The problems of dealing with a band accumulated over the years. Simple things like keeping them in the band and a zillion other hurdles made it less and less fun. The final nail in the coffin was when I quit playing full time and living in big music cities. The guys I used were pros that lived in the neighborhood. Now I'm not making money, and living in the farmland of Ohio and this level talent pool is not sitting at the local joints like in the big cities.
Getting to play with wilbert harrison as a teenager (he did a 1 man band) was one of my greatest musical gifts. The one man band is perfect for me. I don't have to depend on anyone to play and when I travel, don't have to share hotel rooms, and can take my wife and dogs many of the times. Traveling long distances in funky vehicles with guys of various degrees of addiction, mental illness, and other wierd quirks, gets old (I was one of these at one time or another too). Finding local guys that can really play that aren't full time players is very hard to find. There are tons of good ones. Musically accomplished, but lacking that magical next level that the list below had in spades.
I would like to do a tour with some of these guys. Here is a short list of some that use to be in my band over the years:
drummers:
Jimmie Carl Black (frank zappa and TMI)
uncle john turner (johnny winter)
dave sanger (asleep at the wheel)
ken cook (james harman)
Frosty (austin legend)
Kevin Norton (milt Hinton)
Francis Clay (muddy waters)
katherine stevens (not widely known but at least as good as any of the above)
Keys/accordian: Mark Rubinstien - from the san antonio symphony to Natile Cole
sax: bobby keys (rolling stones)
bass:
speedy sparks (doug sahm, texas tornadoes, rocky erikson)
larry lange (delbert mc clinton)
alex napier (SRV, cobras)
douglas mckenzie (longtime bay area guitarist who played bass with me)
kieth ferguson(T Birds)
back up guitar:
charlie sexton (dylan, arc angels)
will sexton
evan johns
david holt
david grissom (john melecamp)
michael been (the call)
fast floyd (mink de ville)
sean carney (International blues challenge band winner)
doyle brahmall II (clapton)
indiana slim (cousin to lonnie mack and a legendary player that is way off the radar)
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 06, 2011 4:51 PM
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