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Title: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 05, 2011, 03:22:44 PM: I had a rehearsal last night witha new drummer and bass player. They're both very good and are both very good at arranging too. So much better than the other clowns I wasted 2 years with.
We played 3 Ian Dury tunes. Rhythm stick, What a waste & and Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll.
Fingers crossed this will go better than the other project. None of us have played together before and we all thought it sounded really good. Still lots to do but a potential singer has been found for next week. :D :D
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: psy on July 05, 2011, 03:37:17 PM: I love it when a first jam just feels 'right'. Hope things work out better for you this time around.
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: PhilKing on July 05, 2011, 04:56:17 PM: If your new bass player can play Rhythm Stick, then he's a keeper! Good luck with it all Johnny.
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Post by: Telerocker on July 05, 2011, 05:28:43 PM: Congrats! I still have those singles lying around somewhere. Suc6 with your Blockheads.
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Post by: dave_mc on July 05, 2011, 05:54:06 PM: great news :)
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Post by: 38thBeatle on July 05, 2011, 07:23:04 PM: Nice one Johnny.
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Post by: FernandoDuarte on July 05, 2011, 08:01:59 PM: Congrats! Hope everything goes fine!!
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Post by: Twinfan on July 05, 2011, 08:06:53 PM: Great stuff - good luck mate!
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Afghan Dave on July 05, 2011, 10:58:12 PM: Quote from: PhilKing on July 05, 2011, 04:56:17 PM
If your new bass player can play Rhythm Stick, then he's a keeper!

My thoughts exactly!
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Philly Q on July 05, 2011, 11:30:28 PM: Quote from: Afghan Dave on July 05, 2011, 10:58:12 PM
Quote from: PhilKing on July 05, 2011, 04:56:17 PM
If your new bass player can play Rhythm Stick, then he's a keeper!

My thoughts exactly!

I'm trying to read innuendo into that......
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Afghan Dave on July 05, 2011, 11:36:03 PM: PDT_038

I've made a cross for my own back, haven't I?

PDT_036 PDT_017
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Philly Q on July 06, 2011, 12:17:21 AM: Hoist with your own petard. :wink:
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Post by: Afghan Dave on July 06, 2011, 03:42:03 AM: Ooo Err...

You can hoist me by my petard any day....

DOH!!!

:lol:
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: AndyR on July 06, 2011, 08:14:16 AM: Nice one Johnny, good to hear :D

And if the singer doesn't work out...

Quote from: Afghan Dave on July 06, 2011, 03:42:03 AM
Ooo Err...

You can hoist me by my petard any day....

DOH!!!

:lol:

Can I recommend a forum member? Plenty of attitude... Has an endless supply of ideas that could be worked up into interesting song lyrics... And I'm sure he'd love to help carry your Koch around...
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Post by: horsehead on July 06, 2011, 01:07:11 PM: hur hur...koch!

Nice one Johnny, it's ace when a plan come together...
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 06, 2011, 10:39:18 PM: Thanks for your kind words lads! :D :D

The bass player is bloody amazing! He has a lovely Ash bodied Fender Jazz with a maple neck. Going into a 350w Ampeg stack. It's sounds perfect. The drummer is no mug either with a cool looking white Premier kit.
We all have a lot to work on but with lots of home work learning our parts it could work out really well. They're both really positive and enthusiastic too. Nothing like the other blokes I was rehearsing with. I'm loving playing my Tele practising Blockheads songs. They're great fun to play but also very challenging. There's a lot more going on in those songs when you listen to them closely.
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 06, 2011, 10:44:49 PM: Oh yeah I forgot to mention. They f*cking love my Koch! :lol: When I wheeled it into the room they took time to admire it. :D They said it made a wondeful sound when I used it. Haha! :lol:
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Post by: PhilKing on July 06, 2011, 11:17:04 PM: Are they friends who have worked together before. If they have a good groove going on between them, then I'm sure you're going to love playing with them.
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 07, 2011, 11:39:04 AM: Quote from: PhilKing on July 06, 2011, 11:17:04 PM
Are they friends who have worked together before. If they have a good groove going on between them, then I'm sure you're going to love playing with them.

I was at school with the bass player but we haven't seen each other since we left 29 years ago. We got into guitars together at school funnily enough and did jam a few times back then so we're picking up where we left off!
I haven't met the drummer before. He is a great drummer and he owns the rehearsal studios where we were on Monday night, so that's handy Harry! :D
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Post by: PhilKing on July 07, 2011, 11:02:47 PM: That's really great - sounds like they are both good blokes. If you're all into the same stuff, then it could work out really well for you. I hope it does, and you can get a band together.
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 08, 2011, 11:29:58 AM: Quote from: PhilKing on July 07, 2011, 11:02:47 PM
That's really great - sounds like they are both good blokes. If you're all into the same stuff, then it could work out really well for you. I hope it does, and you can get a band together.

Thanks Phil :D
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 15, 2011, 02:40:23 PM: We had a singer at our rehearsal on Wednesday. He done a great job on the lyrics. He enjoyed it so it looks like we have him on board. He has around 15 years live experience. We added Clever Trevor & Wake Up and Make Love With Me to the list, so we're getting the songs learnt very quickly. I didthe big solo at the end of Rythym Stick ' with the vocalist shouting out hit me withthe string bends. Great stuff. I'm still buzzing! :D
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-) It's all gone tits up!!
Post by: Johnny Mac on February 24, 2012, 06:08:52 PM: I've been a bit quiet on posting anything on this Ian Dury Trib' project. It was really going well. I've been playing and learning so much of his songs since last summer. Some of which I've never played the like of before. Hours and hours of private practise on my trusty Tascam Guitar Trainer. Then loads of rehearsing in the studio and with the bass player at his house. All day sometimes. Our last rehearsal was, if I'm allowed to blow on a trumpet of my own, electrifying. I was buzzing so much I barely slept for a few days after as all i wanted to do was get it to the giging stage. We all felt like that. We just needed a keys and sax player. Meanwhile our singer had a court case hanging over him which, after a long trial got him a 6 month sentence. He did get out after 2 months but we couldn't rehearse as he had an ankle tag on and had to be home in the evenings, as part of the deal to let him out 4 months early.

So..

After all the aggro with our singer getting 2 months for fraud, then a tag on his ankle to keep him under curfew we finally got a rehearsal set again for next week with a keyboard player and Sax player.
On Wednesday night, the bass player and drummer, who are in a different band together had a gig... This band is basically backing for a singer/songwriter. He is well established on the gig circuit so I'm told. He has management and a recording deal. The drummer has been with him 2 years and got the bass player in there. So they all have a pint to settle their nerves in a pub. All except the drummer, who has 9 pints of Stella, in the bar at the venue. Rule No1. Don't get drunk when you're playing a gig. He was shouting out obsenitys, going out of time, playing drums on a ballad that didn't have any drums composed on it. Then smashed his drum kit up at the end Keith Moon style. The management sacked him this morning. My mate said he doesn't ever want to see him again. He was livid. I would be too. What a cnut.

Oh well if at first you don't succeed....
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: 38thBeatle on February 24, 2012, 07:05:27 PM: Blimey Johnny, you don't half pick 'em. never a dull moment eh?
Title: Re: I've found a new bass player and drummer at last :-)
Post by: Johnny Mac on February 24, 2012, 07:20:33 PM: Quote from: 38thBeatle on February 24, 2012, 07:05:27 PM
Blimey Johnny, you don't half pick 'em. never a dull moment eh?

Tell me about it mate! With 'The power of Facebook' :lol: I think I've got a new drummer already. Fingers crossed. He is a semi pro with a good function band who are a bit quiet at the moment. He loves ID & The Blockheads, lives nearby and he is another Spurs fan, so should fit right in. I'm praying this is going to work out as it's heartbreaking to let all this hard work go to waste.