As I mentioned in an earlier post, we played The Boat Bar in Ortonville, Michigan again last night. A good time was had by all.  One guy won $12K playing Keno.  A friend of our drummer won $50K!!!    
 
My favorite pieces last night were.....  
Take Me To The River - Al Green  
You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker  
Play That Funky Music / Superstition Medley  
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder  
Them Changes - Jimi Hendrix & Band of Gypsies  
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby  
Skin Tight / Brickhouse Medley  
 
On The Way It Is, we feature our keyboard player, but I also get to take two solos  . The first one I just pretty much funk out on the basic bassline. That always goes well. Last night in the 2nd one I went to a higher register riff and TOTALLY lost my timing and had to find my way back to the earlier funked out E / A / C /D bassline  .  
 
I played my Alembic 5 string most of the night, but I always play my Hanewinckel fretless when we do Them Changes. It's got some really fast trills and I prefer to do them without speed bumps.  I also tend to use the fretless when we do Shaft, since we tend to do those back to back. When we work What's Goin' On and Heard It Through The Grapevine into our set I'll probably use the fretless for those, too.  
 
We play the Boat Bar again on the 23rd. I may park the Alembic and give the Marchlewski a full test drive that night. We play an outdoor street fair on the 24th. I'm sure I'll fly with the Alembic again. Nothing like having that steady crutch to lean on.  
 
If you go to our website, you can view some Quicktime clips of The Way It Is, Hounddog (not really part of our set list, but our keyboard player and singer just started into it and it went) , Play That Funky Music, and Taxman. Taxman was from our first time playing The Boat Bar in June. The sound on that clip truly sucks.  
 
As I said, a good time was had by all.  
 
Peace,  
 
James  
 
 
(Message edited by malthumb on July 11, 2004)

James; that sure is a pretty bass in those videos.  And the tone comes through nicely in the Funky Music clip.  And I guess the dancers in the Just the Way It Is video are a testimony to just how moving an experience seeing your band live must be!

Brother James,    I enjoyed the video's and clips too!!  When I'll be a grown up I'll learn to solo too!!!!    The pictures here are from the DRIVE-gig last week Monday during the "Nike Run" in Tessenderlo.  Not a very comfortable playing situation on a truck carrier. As soon that somebody moved the truck start rocking back and forward ...it really made you see-sick. GIven the fact that our music is "moving" ...oh ...euh ....that's not the way to put this but well ...you understand.    Paul TBO  

 

  More info? Visit:  www.drive-band.be  (Message edited by palembic on July 13, 2004)

Gosh ...am I the only gigging Alembic player??
Here is a picture of our open air thing in Kessel. It was freezing cold and it RAINED but ...well ...the show must go on!!!
Paul the bad one (dark and concentrated)

Paul, that's a sinister image! Looks like you're in some kind of dark metal band with everyone in the audience headbanging their brains out! To many people Alembics have that gothic look anyway, I have had several similar comments about mine. But the audience must have something nice to look at, wouldn't you agree? So where's the pretty girl singer in the voluptuous (sp?) ballroom dress?
 
;-)
 
Wilfred

Paul; I played last saturday night, but I didn't take a photographer with me .

Okay ...let's switch on the light. ***snap***

 

 

 Hey ...you see ...with the lights on I'm even laughing a bit!!!!!!! HA!!! Now ...lemmee see ...how can I get our voluptuous Iris in that ballroom dress???  Dave ...the girlfriend of Yoeri (the big guitarplayer with the small guitar ...the other is the small guitarplayer with the big guitar what definitely means that size is relative huhuhuh...) always take her digital camera to gigs ... see?   Paul the bad one

We did another FunkeeStation gig at a Street Fair in Birmingham, Michigan on Saturday, July 24th.  Here's a couple pictures from that one....  

 

  Peace,  James

Great pics james!!!,,,what is that five string thing sittin next to you?

Keavin,  
   
Actually that five string thing has six strings  .  It's my Hanewinckel 6 string fretless.  I used it on a couple tunes in our first set.  
 
Follow this link....  
https://club.alembicguitars.com/Images/449/11097.html?1090620105  
down to the picture with 5 basses.  It's the 2nd one from the left.  
   
Peace,  
   
James  
 
(Message edited by malthumb on July 26, 2004)
 
(Message edited by malthumb on July 26, 2004)

Hmmmmm.....not quite what I had in mind.I wish i could make the pic a little bigger without going over the limit.How are you other club members doing it?

Dave, if you haven't already seen it, the following is posted in the gallery section.  Note a 150K maximum file size is allowed .. If your file is too large, try setting the resolution in the source file to 72 dpi and confine the longest edge to about 800 pixels.
 
The picture you posted is about 40K, so apparently you reduced it more than needed.
 
Hope that helps.

 
 
(Message edited by smokin dave on July 29, 2004)