From carl@vanselman.com Tue Oct 29 10:34:03 2002
Subject:Re: Reel in the members, please?

Hi Bob,
It's not that we don't join in we're the strong silent types!!! Also, I'm in UK and a lot of the chat is really USA related. There are no speakeasy here and I wouldn't want to buy without trying. You seem to have some very good stores that let you buy to try and return if you don't like it. Try to get that here!

So.. I play an Electro 73 and a Korg Trinity V3 plus bells and whistles. My band is an 8 piece, playing a mix of blues, jazz, pop, R&B etc with four guys at the back (bass/keys/sticks/guitar) and four girls up front (very up front!) two of the girls also play sax. The band is called the Cleeving Heevages, we play balls, bun fights, barmitzfers, bashes, etc. All bar two of our songs are covers but don't sound anything like the originals. For a start all the words are changed and are RUDE e.g. songs titles - Portaloo (Waterloo), Then I sat on his face (I'm a believer), Wonky Willy (Woolly Bully), need I go on? We've been going for the last nine years and have had the plugs pulled on us only twice.

Once we were a nine piece but Kate died of cancer and every year we raise money for a different charity in their fight against cancer. This year it was the Marie Curie Foundation. We made a CD and got lots of well known artists to contribute songs etc alongside half a dozen of our best efforts. The CD was selling OK but when Marie Curie heard the CD they banned the sale of it in their shops as being 'filthy', the local radio kept playing it (well just a little not rude bit) and the newspapers had a field day. This of course made sales go through the roof allowing us to give Marie Curie £7,000. We made them send the author of the 'filthy' comments to collect it, on stage at a big benefit gig we organised. Who says you can't have fun and do a good thing.

Sorry for going OT! So! My Electro is great, I use it mostly for organ sounds with occasional wurly. I play direct into the bands PA in stereo. I have found that the Electro electric piano sounds when playing live don't seem to be to touch sensitive. I mean that every now and then I accidentally hit a note a little to hard and the resultant note takes your head off or to soft and you've lost it in the mix. I've sorted this by using a stereo compressor, this also surpassingly gave more edge to the organ sound and can't do without it now.

So I'll shuffle off now before I've turned your minds to jelly.

Carl

----- Original Message -----
From: ZAKEMO@AOL.com
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Reel in the members, please?

All,
How about some more of you 500 members getting into the action. I don't
really mind you not participating but when you don't I feel like the forum is
pretty wide open to anything that mentions music that the 10 or 15 of us want
to address. This isn't a gripe as much as it is an invitation for you other
members to join in. Humbly, OHF Bob

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