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Post by billhammond on Oct 23, 2006 22:42:06 GMT -5
Man, is my house cold! Fifty degrees when Barb and I walked in here a half-hour ago -- she is warm in her car on her way home now, but here I sit with a jacket on!
So, what did I miss? Anyone preggers?
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Post by sekhmet on Oct 23, 2006 22:46:13 GMT -5
Welcome back billiam.  |
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Post by Shannon on Oct 23, 2006 22:49:37 GMT -5
Not preggers here. Been fixed for years.
Had a great gig the other night, though, and have another lined up soon.
Sounds like you had a great trip!
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Post by billhammond on Oct 23, 2006 22:51:53 GMT -5
Thanks, Sekh. I am freezing, but my new "Ray Sings, Basie Swings" CD is helping to warm me up.
Anyone heard about this amazing "new" recording?
It was made from 1975 reel to reel tapes of Ray Charles that were just found recently. They were direct from sound-board recordings of live shows he did that year, when he was at his absolute best.
But the rest of the band tracks were unusable, so they gathered the current version of the Count Basie band, someone wrote some great horn and backup-singer charts and recorded the songs to match the vocal tracks. The whole thing sounds brand new.
It is OUTSTANDING, but you gotta like brass backing up a fantastic singer.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 23, 2006 22:56:20 GMT -5
Not preggers here. Been fixed for years. Had a great gig the other night, though, and have another lined up soon. Sounds like you had a great trip! Congrats on the gig -- I just read about that, wondered what "cool weather" amounted to down there -- it's 29 degrees here! Yeh, the trip was just great. Nothing went wrong. So much went right. I love Barb, I love Doug, I love music, and I love the California sun. I hate high housing prices, though, so here I shall stay, I reckon. |
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Post by Supertramp78 on Oct 23, 2006 23:16:15 GMT -5
you read the "Weekend with Dave Wendler" thread?
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Post by billhammond on Oct 23, 2006 23:34:52 GMT -5
Sounded like great fun, Tramp!
You get a free guitar out of it?
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Post by theevan on Oct 24, 2006 5:54:53 GMT -5
Sounds like an idyllic romp through my past. Tell me you left Santa Cruz and took that 'lil hwy (9?) through Ben Lomond & Big Basin to Skyline Drive...
Memories.
BTW, we (well, me parents) bought our house in San Mateo for about $20k...in 1954. House next door just sold for over $400k. And this is a dismal, flat, Bay fill 'hood with only two styles of house. Sort of Levittown meets 50's Moderne. Whatever.
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Post by timfarney on Oct 24, 2006 6:02:32 GMT -5
That they can digitally separate the band tracks and enhance 30-year-old live recordings until they sit seamlessly beside brand-new state of the art backing tracks still just amazes me.
And this is exactly how it should be used, as opposed to blurring the lines between Lee Ann Rhimes and Faith Hill by giving the latter the illusion of great talent.
You just cost me $15 bucks, Bill.
Tim
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2006 7:04:43 GMT -5
Welcome back Bill. Sounds like a great time. I bought a guitar while your were out. And now I have to buy a Ray Charles CD!
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Post by kenlarsson on Oct 24, 2006 7:32:35 GMT -5
I bought a kazoo but now I'm screwed because I can't find any instruction books or videos and there are no kazoo instructors in the area. So how am I gonna learn how to play the damn thing. Bummer man.  Brazilian body with an Adirondack cellophane holder too. |
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Post by Supertramp78 on Oct 24, 2006 8:41:43 GMT -5
"You get a free guitar out of it?"
Naw, got some cash and a lot of free guitar picks. Not bad for a few days work.
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