Live studio recording with 50s style jump/rhythm and blues band.

Chickenwings

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This is a fairly new party/dance band that's been playing together for a few months now. We've done a bunch of gigs in the local blue mountains area which have been really popular, but we made this demo so we can get some work in the city hopefully. It was cool to have everyone playing in the same room and doing most of our mixing by listening to each other and playing accordingly. Old Skool style. Its nice to hear back the results of the last few months of work. The lineup is keys, Bari/tenor sax, trombone, drums, bass guitar plus whatever vocals are required for the song. The first 4 tracks are the kind of stuff we mostly do and the last one is a kind of funky jam tune. We usually keep this kind of stuff for the end of the night when the crowd is drunk and getting loose.




...unfortunately no guitar solos until 2 minutes into the 1st track and 2:15 on the last track. Its great tho just sitting back and playing rhythm for most of the night and being part of a bigger machine.
 
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soul donkey is awesome!

you using a BBE or a chorus or something?
 
Re: Live studio recording with 50s style jump/rhythm and blues band.

soul donkey is awesome!

you using a BBE or a chorus or something?

just my homemade overdrive and a wah. The amp reverb was playing up that day (ie not working at all) so its not being used. It does sound kinda chorusy tho and i was wondering why that was at the time....must be something to do with the multiple mics for the horns and stuff in the room getting some bleed.
 
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Man that is just cool stuff!!
Good singer for sure!
Love the jump style.....hehe could be fun if you guys did some rockabilly too:D
What guitars where used? Fat sweet tone!
 
Re: Live studio recording with 50s style jump/rhythm and blues band.

Thanks V.
its a 175 (APH) into my princeton reverb II (22w ss rectifier 12" inch speaker) on all the tracks except for soul donkey when i used the 335 (wlh set) and an overdrive pedal and wah.
We might do some rockabilly i too i hope. Thats all up to the bandleader i guess.
 
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Those cuts sound awesome. Reminds me of an era gone by. I find myself playing along with my CDs of Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and many others. But you sound like east coast old skool. You sound great.
 
Re: Live studio recording with 50s style jump/rhythm and blues band.

thanks jeff. Its a work in progress. Give the band 100 gigs and i reckon it'll be really jumping.
 
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