BLUE STUFF/DRIVE

[David Houck]

Paul, the link did not work for me.
Maybe so many people were trying to get to
your site that the server was overloaded.
I'll try again later.
 
(Message edited by davehouck on October 30, 2003)

[mikedm]

PTBO,
 
Nice site. I notice you play with you eyes closed a lot, is that something you pros do?  
 
Mike

[palembic]

I get teh same remarks from my (grown up) children. They ask ...dad ...why do you makes those faces when you play.
Thruth ...I can't help it. playing Bonnie is not painful for me AT ALL (even if there are people who have to chase the entire room behind the neck to reach the low C). It has to do with the music I'm playing that I like. There was once a man in the audience who came to see me in a break and said : It's amazing: you seem to fly when you play and loosing every contact with the earth.
huh ...I gues that's why I play out of tune sometimes. LOL
 
 
Paul the bad one
 
 
Pro's  ...pro's ...pro's hell no ... we are just a bunch of highly motivated amateur musicians.
Dave  (and others) please keep me posted if the link works. The MP3's are heavy IMO. It's just our first try and our webmaster (the big guitarplayer with the small guitar haha - the other is the small guitarpleyer with the big guitar) really need this input.
Thanks in advance.

[mikedm]

Paul,
Just kiddin', I recognize the look and have been guilty of the same. I'm glad to see someone enjoying themselves...
 
The pro comment, oh yeah, definately kidding on that one!  have a great day.
 
something from Life Before Alembic - not that long ago...
 
 
 
Mike

[David Houck]

I was able to get there finally.  Nice site; and nice pics of the bass .  By the way, one minor correction, Debbie Davies name is misspelled.

[palembic]

Thanks Dave. I'll give a yell to Yoeri (the big guitarist with the small guitar).
 
Michael no offence taken. I think we'll kind of related, the closing of the eyes when playing is not the only thing we have in common. We both have a great taste for basses, I really love yours (really gang you ought to see Groovelines profile!!!). I like the JB! I just took one over from a friend. Well ...a Squier FJB-copy for 100$. Played as a broom and sound worse (as that broom). I messed with the thing through the brother Joey routine and now she plays as a woman's leg but she still sounds as the broom ...well ... you can't get it all for THAT price no?
Even more: you are a video producer? Hehe ...like wise!
AVID-off-line was the highest I could go in editing. I was writing and directing stuff. Have always been a gofer: director, photographer, scriptwriter, communication consultant, cook, musician ... well ...what do you want ... I'm Gemini in atrology! There are about 5 Paul's into me. Always fun when those dudes start telling jokes to each other, not so fun when they have a fight .
LOL
 
 
Paul the bad one (hang on ...isn't there another Paul in me who wants to take over ;-)

[mikedm]

Paul,
 
Thanks for the kind words, it's a dream to play. Now if I could only find a way to own a neck through with anniversary electronics....It was hard to part with the Jazz, but without it's sacrifice the Orion would belong to another lucky soul, although I doubt they'd be as greatful.  
Never did the Avid thing (lucky you) - for a long time we were exclusively a MAC shop, that meant using MEDIA 100. Seems you do everything in this profession. No matter how exclusive you might think your position is, you still find yourself with a roll of gaff tape in one hand and tough spun in the other while pulling cables with your teeth behind an equipment rack . Great work when you can get it.
Gemini? That explains why you see both sides of every discussion; and aren't too shy about it either. LOL Related to cooking... If I had to do it over agian I'd be a chef. Also, did you not at one point mention that your family is somehow connected to a vineyard(owns?)? If so, do you export to the US? The only Lindeman(n)s I can find is from Australia...
 
Mike

[palembic]

Ha ...another cook in the house.
Ahllala brother Bob will like this!
 
Media 100 ... well I directed an editer once on that machine. I know it only from the first versions. And well AVID I only was used to the first versions of that too. But  -if I may say so- I was a fairly good editer.
 
LOL Gaffa ...here we having this saying: what's the most important thing that really holds the crew together??
GAFFA!!!
 
About whine.
Hum .... this is gonna be one of those really long good'ol Paul-the-bad-one-stories HA!
The wine you mentioned is originally from a famiy named Lindeman. I think he was from the UK but therefor German based. The name on the bottel was Lindeman's wine. Later it became Lindemans Wine.
We're not related.
HOWEVER ....however!
The misunderstanding could be from the fact that part of my family are beer-brewers near Brussels. The make Geuze, Lambik, Kriek, Framboise and Peaches beer. Now THAT beer IS exported to the US. Far too sweet for my tooth but it seems that you Americans like it!
It could be that you heard the story about the birth-week of Bonnie. I mean: when I received her back in 1996 I went for a short holiday to friends in France in the Beaune-Burgundy region. We were invited by our friends (winemakers) to help plant a new vineyard, something seldom done in that Burgundy region. I nicknamed the vineyard  Clos Alembic. It's quite a good wine: a 1re Cru.
My daughter took a picture of me (look at that youngster) with Bonnie: the first time we met, on the border of that vineyard.
aaaaah-lalla ...those memories.
 
 
Paul the bad one

[mikedm]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present   the master in repose....
 
man, that's a monster, I mean the bass. So, you just happened to out driving around with your bass? Couldn't stand to be parted from it?
 
BTW, the MP3s dowload fine and play back well. Tight little combo you've found.
 
Mike

[palembic]

Just reporting: we had a hell off a good gig last saturday in Tervuren with Blue Stuff. I'm really working on Tweak Peaks now and slowly I'm getting somewhere.  
 
This I'll play with DRIVE (with the fine young lady) at Aarschot in bar TIME OUT near the railway-station. They are veru nice people there but it's not a very comfortable place to play. The funny thing is every that everybody who wants to go to the toilet needs to cross the stage. Can you imagine ...in a BAR ...***sigh*** ...the Fillmore East is VERY far away in those situations!!!
I'll keep you posted!!
 
Paul the bad one
 
(and getting more and more nervous but -as I said before- that's a good thing!

[palembic]

As promised: new gigs coming for BLUE STUFF and DRIVE.
 
BLUE STUFF is doing calm now. We are keeping this really blues profile going and public in BElgium for that is not s??? wide. We had a concert in prison planned but due to misunderstanding it is postponed. So my stay in jail will be later this year HA!  
However we play in a walloon blues-temple Au Petit Tonneau Rue de la Haniche in Acosse close to Huy. 15th of may at 22hrs.
 
You now DRIVE, it's more rock oriented in the blues. We get busy:
 
Friday 13 febr. 23:00h (today) Kit' sRhythm & Blues Caf? Grote markt 50 Antwerp
 
Friday 5th March Caf? ZOO in Geel.St. Dymphnaplace 12 Starting 22:00hrs.
 
Friday 30th april  Aarschot Caf? Time Out (front of railway station) starting 22:00h.
 
Me, Bonnie, Tweak Peaks ...we'll be there ...so hop on a plane and ...well ...huh
 
Paul the bad one

[bracheen]

For anyone who hasn't checked out the Drive mp3s on their website, I highly recommend it.  Good stuff!
 
Sam

[palembic]

The gig yesterday.
Well ...what can I say?
 
Brothers and sisters I didn't notice it at first but ...it was Friday the 13th!!!
First it was already stressy: being a one year band and to play at one of the top Rhythm & Blues temples in Belgium.  
Second: at 10hrs in the morning we got a phone call: 1 of our guitarplayers (the one with the hat in the picture) called in sic (heavy flu). Ok ...we decided to go.
 
Oh man ...we discovered the hard way why we are 5. 1/3th of the number intro's were normally played by our poor friend so the other player was dead-nervous and ...yeah ...we all were. So actually there was NO number we managed to play to our standards.  
Beware, there were absolutely highlights: Iris -our lady singer- give all of herself in breathtaking versions of I'm a woman, Who is she and Rock me baby.  
But ...we all felt the same: something is missing in here.
I managed -as rooky SF-2 user- to create a sound that was broad enough for a 3 players set-up with still that needed edge.
But ...I'm NOT Jack Bruce or Tim Bogert (BTW: thanks DIno for the Cactus CD's ...it's really VERY inspiring) ...yet!!!
(Just you wait until I'm grown-up LOL).
 
Third: the place was loaded! It's the first time we got the reaction he guys ...you can play louder (!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!).
Suddenly we realise that the sound in the bar was dropping dead after let say 4 meters from the podium because of the acoustic material used in the interior design (the bar is a long tunnel). We heard afterwards that in that place everybody plays with a FULL PA-system (We only send the voice through the PA and some bass-drum, not all the instruments. Why ...simple ... we can't afford such a PA) So ...our sound didn't reach the end of the bar.
 
Well ...shit happens I guess. Friday the 13th? Tell me about it!
 
Thanks for supporting us and especially to Sam for his kind words.
 
Paul the bad one

[David Houck]

Paul; so you're saying that one of the top Rhythm & Blues temples in Belgium
doesn't have a house system?
 
(Message edited by davehouck on February 14, 2004)

[alembic76407]

Paul, Where is this bar? I'll give them something to listen too!!!!!!! Most places say can you turn it down, my ears are bleeding or in my case  if one more glass vibrates of the bar, I'm going to sue you now will make you feel welcome
 
David T (TLO)
 
PS: I always look back on those gig and say, nobody died, GOOD GIG !!!!!!!!