11 Aug
2013
11 Aug
'13
4:46 a.m.
No Linux content here, but plenty of Hammond.
Was digging through an S3 bucket, and found two old live recordings from Better Than Lahar
from 2010.
A mellow, sexxxy groove for late-night listening:
http://storage.betterthanlahar.com.s3.amazonaws.com/live/justthetip.mp3
And a full-on, balls-out, in your face ROCK song, which was I think our best at the time:
http://storage.betterthanlahar.com.s3.amazonaws.com/live/scuffinupthewalls.…
I feel so lucky to have actually gotten to be in my favorite band. Those guys were
awesome.
-ken
11 Aug
11 Aug
6:34 a.m.
Morning Ken!
Hm, I like those. I suspected something different from "Just the Tip",
judging by the advertisement. :-) Still, a nice slow piece. Was that a real
Hammond or already Beatrix. I know, you said no Linux, but you might have
referred to the recording there.
Scuffin' up the Walls, is a different matter entirely. It has an infectious
groove. I love those funk influenced tracks. Not sure, if this can be counted
as pure funk. The Hammond here is a fantastic addition. Interesting choice to
have it mainly as the chord instrument and the guitar almost entirely for the
higher register, taking care of the melody and other screaming and whining
duties. This song gets me!
Thanks for sharing those, may the be Linux related or not, they are good
music!
Warm regards
Julien
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http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html
7:13 a.m.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 08:31:36AM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
Morning Ken!
Hm, I like those. I suspected something different from "Just the
Tip", judging by the advertisement. :-) Still, a nice slow piece.
Was that a real Hammond or already Beatrix. I know, you said no
Linux, but you might have referred to the recording there.
That is the Boom Boom Room's beat-up 1950's-era Hammond all the way.
Scuffin' up the Walls, is a different matter
entirely. It has an
infectious groove. I love those funk influenced tracks. Not sure, if
this can be counted as pure funk. The Hammond here is a fantastic
addition. Interesting choice to have it mainly as the chord
instrument and the guitar almost entirely for the higher register,
taking care of the melody and other screaming and whining duties.
This song gets me!
Thanks for sharing those, may the be Linux related or not, they
are good music!
I'm glad you like! I'm sad that the band broke up before getting a really good
clean recording (and performance!) of those songs.
I realized that was the show where I screwed up the vocals on the chorus. Thom had in a
rehearsal a day or two before changed the lyric to "got my soul in stone", but I
was still singing it as "got my soul in chains" which was the first draft. You
can hear him singing "STONE" loudly over me, as if to remind me of the new
lyric... guess I coudn't hear him, sorry Thom.
-ken
13 Aug
13 Aug
1:03 p.m.
2013/8/11 Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>rg>:
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 08:31:36AM +0200, Julien
Claassen wrote:
Both tunes sound really great, you can't stop swinging to the rhythm.
I would love to see you live at least one night (it's a long way to
S.F and now I suppose there'll be no more).
The recordings, I guess ambient, were they recorded with some Zoom
recorder or alike and then some EQ?
--
Carlos sanchiavedraz
* Musix GNU+Linux
http://www.musix.es
Morning Ken!
Hm, I like those. I suspected something different from "Just the
Tip", judging by the advertisement. :-) Still, a nice slow piece.
Was that a real Hammond or already Beatrix. I know, you said no
Linux, but you might have referred to the recording there.
That is the Boom Boom Room's beat-up 1950's-era Hammond all the way.
Scuffin' up the Walls, is a different
matter entirely. It has an
infectious groove. I love those funk influenced tracks. Not sure, if
this can be counted as pure funk. The Hammond here is a fantastic
addition. Interesting choice to have it mainly as the chord
instrument and the guitar almost entirely for the higher register,
taking care of the melody and other screaming and whining duties.
This song gets me!
Thanks for sharing those, may the be Linux related or not, they
are good music!
I'm glad you like! I'm sad that the band broke up before getting a really good
clean recording (and performance!) of those songs.
I realized that was the show where I screwed up the vocals on the chorus. Thom had in a
rehearsal a day or two before changed the lyric to "got my soul in stone", but I
was still singing it as "got my soul in chains" which was the first draft. You
can hear him singing "STONE" loudly over me, as if to remind me of the new
lyric... guess I coudn't hear him, sorry Thom.
-ken
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10:47 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
2013/8/11 Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>rg>:
Thanks. That was a fun band. I can't imagine putting in the work required to do the
band routine and get back on stage again though.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 08:31:36AM +0200, Julien
Claassen wrote:
Both tunes sound really great, you can't stop swinging to the rhythm.
I would love to see you live at least one night (it's a long way to
S.F and now I suppose there'll be no more). Morning Ken!
Hm, I like those. I suspected something different from "Just the
Tip", judging by the advertisement. :-) Still, a nice slow piece.
Was that a real Hammond or already Beatrix. I know, you said no
Linux, but you might have referred to the recording there.
That is the Boom Boom Room's beat-up 1950's-era Hammond all the way.
Scuffin' up the Walls, is a different
matter entirely. It has an
infectious groove. I love those funk influenced tracks. Not sure, if
this can be counted as pure funk. The Hammond here is a fantastic
addition. Interesting choice to have it mainly as the chord
instrument and the guitar almost entirely for the higher register,
taking care of the melody and other screaming and whining duties.
This song gets me!
Thanks for sharing those, may the be Linux related or not, they
are good music!
I'm glad you like! I'm sad that the band broke up before getting a really good
clean recording (and performance!) of those songs.
I realized that was the show where I screwed up the vocals on the chorus. Thom had in a
rehearsal a day or two before changed the lyric to "got my soul in stone", but I
was still singing it as "got my soul in chains" which was the first draft. You
can hear him singing "STONE" loudly over me, as if to remind me of the new
lyric... guess I coudn't hear him, sorry Thom.
-ken
The recordings, I guess ambient, were they recorded with some Zoom
recorder or alike and then some EQ?
It was just a Zoom H2, didn't EQ it in this case.
I don't have a good studio recording of those songs, sadly.
It'd almost be interesting to try to pull the guys together for a weekend to re-learn,
rehearse, and record it, but time and money are both limited, and the bass player lives in
Seattle now, so it's unlikely to happen.
-ken
14 Aug
14 Aug
8:58 p.m.
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:46:04 -0700
Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
No Linux content here, but plenty of Hammond.
Was digging through an S3 bucket, and found two old live recordings from Better Than
Lahar from 2010.
A mellow, sexxxy groove for late-night listening:
http://storage.betterthanlahar.com.s3.amazonaws.com/live/justthetip.mp3
And a full-on, balls-out, in your face ROCK song, which was I think our best at the
time:
http://storage.betterthanlahar.com.s3.amazonaws.com/live/scuffinupthewalls.…
I feel so lucky to have actually gotten to be in my favorite band. Those guys were
awesome.
-ken
Thanks for sharing these. Really enjoyed them both, especially scuffinupthe
walls :)
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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