How to Melt a Valve Socket

[GoldenVulture]

I was listening to some old jams.I thought this was funny.I was jamming with some mates [Drums and Bass]when my guitar faded away.You can guess what happened.at first I thought it was a blown fuse but apon inspection I soon realized what it was;the smell of plastic led me to it!:eyecrazy:
The amp was a 120 Watt double stack with four 6CA7's driving the output.
- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=804435&songID=8774597 - It's fairly short.
It's called ValveSocketMelt.It was origonally recorded on a stereo cassette with no noise reduction so forgive the hiss and basic quality.I've Re-EQ'd it slightly.Soundclicks compression seems to eff up it's balance and makes it sound drum heavy compared to what it sounds like here at home.:14:

This was done back in 74 when I was a young man of 22 learning to make loud noise.

 

[Gamera]

Re: How to Melt a Valve Socket

1974!?! It's worth a listen just for that. Cool! You had some skills even then.

 

[JacobTM]

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Reminds me of early Deep Purple, like their self-titled album. Good stuff for sure.

 

[post toastie]

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very nice !!! i love the sound of each member's instruments AND chops. good mix too.

what happened to the band ?

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: How to Melt a Valve Socket

very nice !!! i love the sound of each member's instruments AND chops. good mix too.

what happened to the band ?

Thanks for the compliments guys.:1:

It wasn't a band ,just some guys I used to jam with.The drummer I went to school with and at the time when that jam was done we shared a house with two other guys.It was recorded in that house In the lounge room.
The drummer played in a cover band and the bass player had been with them,but around the time of this jam he joined another band called Stylus.They became one of our more prolific cover bands of the seventies.
The drummer moved to queensland a couple of years later and I've never heard from him since.Pity I really liked his drumming.The bass player stills plays around in melb as far as I know and managed the Dvd section of a shop belonging to a well known music/hifi chainstore a couple of years ago [that's where I last saw him].

I have more stuff I did with them and some with a different bass player and also a conga player.The bass player brought along the guitarist from Stylus a couple of times and he and I had some fun doing guitar duels.The other bass player was my preference to play with.He was much better than the guy on this recording.

Although it's only on cassette originally and two or three mics,the drummer and I used to tune his drums down and sympathetic to my tuning which was standard pitch.Unless you tune the drums down they sound too thin and flat unless you had a major studio miking and mixing facility back then;this is a cassette recording.Our tuning was part of our approach.The Jams were usually "Pick a Timing and a Key" and maybe have a riff or a proggression as part of the the start and go for it from there.
From memory the jam I posted here was started on the basis; "the bass player just wanted me to hammer it loud and fast" ................:14:

 

[serizawa]

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This is really sweet!

 

[post toastie]

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Thanks for the compliments guys.:1:

It wasn't a band ,just some guys I used to jam with.The drummer I went to school with and at the time when that jam was done we shared a house with two other guys.It was recorded in that house In the lounge room.
The drummer played in a cover band and the bass player had been with them,but around the time of this jam he joined another band called Stylus.They became one of our more prolific cover bands of the seventies.
The drummer moved to queensland a couple of years later and I've never heard from him since.Pity I really liked his drumming.The bass player stills plays around in melb as far as I know and managed the Dvd section of a shop belonging to a well known music/hifi chainstore a couple of years ago [that's where I last saw him].

I have more stuff I did with them and some with a different bass player and also a conga player.The bass player brought along the guitarist from Stylus a couple of times and he and I had some fun doing guitar duels.The other bass player was my preference to play with.He was much better than the guy on this recording.

Although it's only on cassette originally and two or three mics,the drummer and I used to tune his drums down and sympathetic to my tuning which was standard pitch.Unless you tune the drums down they sound too thin and flat unless you had a major studio miking and mixing facility back then;this is a cassette recording.Our tuning was part of our approach.The Jams were usually "Pick a Timing and a Key" and maybe have a riff or a proggression as part of the the start and go for it from there.
From memory the jam I posted here was started on the basis; "the bass player just wanted me to hammer it loud and fast" ................:14:

man, i love that unit !!! if only for me (pretty please) find those guys and pick up where you left off !!!!

love it, love it, love it !!!!!!!!!!!