Test , check , is this thing on

morrow · April 20, 2022, 09:08:38 AM

Trying to navigate the process of posting videos .
So a quick test , I'm definitely going to work on the presentation skills , but goofing around in Dm for a minute , going to get the little amp closer to the iPad next time .

Rob · April 20, 2022, 12:44:01 PM

Nice chops just the volume issue.

morrow · April 20, 2022, 01:53:50 PM

Thank you , I love to sit on one chord and noodle for a while . Originally the iPad was beside my little speaker , levels were good , but it was just legs and bass on the screen , so I moved the iPod further away , and should have moved the speaker .

uwe · April 23, 2022, 02:11:18 PM

You'll get there, dad!

Pilgrim · April 24, 2022, 08:42:50 AM

I use a Yamaha Pocketrak CX (which is now an old but still decent digital recorder) for capturing practices acoustically. If the room isn't too boomy it works very well.

When Dick Dale played his last gig in Denver in 2018, I had a seat on the balcony just above the stage and used the Yamaha to record the gig. I just laid a napkin on the table in front of me and let 'er rip. I got a very listenable recording that captured all three instruments well.

uwe · April 24, 2022, 03:25:40 PM

You bootlegger!

Pilgrim · April 24, 2022, 10:07:17 PM

Quote from: uwe on April 24, 2022, 03:25:40 PM
You bootlegger!

Hey! I don't wear boots! (They hurt my feet.)

Want a copy?

morrow · July 07, 2022, 11:03:17 AM

More noodling

Bubbalou88 · September 26, 2022, 02:44:56 AM

Nice sounding bass. Great noodling! I like it

morrow · October 29, 2022, 09:30:26 AM

Still needs haircut .

uwe · November 22, 2022, 10:25:51 AM

A bass solo in a major key, now that is rare! Those Junior Tributes sound inherently nice, I used mine for recording a few weeks ago and it sounded great.

But who is the guy with all the medals?

morrow · November 22, 2022, 01:44:04 PM

My wife's uncle , died in Italy serving with the 1st Special Service Force , a mixed US/Canadian commando group.

uwe · November 22, 2022, 03:11:53 PM

I'm sorry to hear. And obviously a hero.

morrow · November 22, 2022, 05:24:49 PM

That generation. My father was a Jr officer on loan to the British Army, he went to a Scottish regiment that had been through North Africa. 20 years old , landing in Normandy. Black Watch.

Hard to imagine.

uwe · November 24, 2022, 09:01:47 AM

Indeed. You're darn lucky you even exist.

One-fifth of the casualties came from just one battalion: the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, who lost 300 of 320 men carrying out Simonds's instructions to rush the ridge in broad daylight. The flood of casualty telegrams made clear that Canada's most storied regiment (equivalent in Canadian terms to the American 101st and 82nd Airborne, the Big Red One or the 1st Marine Division) had suffered 94 percent casualties in fewer than four hours of fighting.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/black-watch-verrieres-ridge-july-1944

And I'm happy for it!

My granduncle Willi was in Normandy in 1944. It was for him, as he always said, "a good ending of the war" as he became a POW with the Brits, which back then with the Wehrmacht was the luckiest draw you could get. His brother Karl (my grandfather on the mother's side) wasn't quite as lucky, Soviet captivity from 1944 onwards (until 1949, having NSDAP membership stamped in his Soldatenausweis didn't help), but he survived as well. Willi picked up some skills with the Brits and became an electrician after the war. As nearly all German POWs held by the Brits, he was released early on (and returned better fed than his loved ones at home) - I don't recall him being a party member either, he was always the smarter one of the two brothers. He never stopped to consider himself lucky.