Oliver's Birds-eye Maple Dragon Wing

[fish]

WOW

[senmen]

Mica, Val,
may I ask you if you could take some more pictures for me?
Only if you have time.
Many thanks
Oliver

[senmen]

Mica, Val,  
may I ask you if you could take some more pictures for me?  
Only if you have time.  
Many thanks  
Oliver

[mica]

Here's the back:

[811952]

Stunning!  I'd love to have that up against me at a gig!

[senmen]

John,
I am also eager to get it!!!
I don?t have it already and I think it will be fun playing it on stage....
 
Oliver

[senmen]

Mike, mate,
long time no see. Many thanks for your post and your kind words.
I am sure that Tears for John will turn out well.
As for our band, WHO ARE YOU, things are running well. Still no keyboarder found but it is working.
Still no gigs yet but we are close to do a test gig with invited friends and interested people.
We always said that we want to do solo material as well. We are doing for example Rough Boys and Give Blood from Pete as well as Trick of the Light and 905 from John. Trick of the Light of course with the Spyder 8. Originally we had done 905 acoustically but yesterday we did it with two acoustic guitars and me playing the Spyder 8, not distorted but with a Defretter, Chorus and Delay to lay a broad base soundwise and it was really amazing. To play the 8string as a base instrument on this song. Very interesting variation. The songs I like most are of course The Real me and 5:15.  
And of course, following our band?s name, we are doing WHO ARE YOU. And especially Won?t get fooled again is really powerful....
 
Take care mate
Oliver

[ox_junior]

Oliver,
 
Glad to hear things are progressing as well as they are.
 
If your drummer is willing to play to a click, I know someone who can provide you with very precise backing tracks to a lot of the keyboard-based songs.  They were created using the ARPs and Lowreys Pete used.  They sound amazingly authentic.  We use them and they work great.  Let me know if you're interested and I will provide you with the website.
 
Cheers, Mike

[senmen]

Mike,
yes please....
We already have backing tracks and I think these are the same that you use but we have the problem that the click on some songs is mixed on both channels so that we have no chance to separate them....
Maybe you could help us with these other tracks....Plse let me know.
Many thanks and many greetings
Oliver (Spyderman)

[kmh364]

IMHO, the NYC-area needs an international Battle Of The Who Cover Bands to assault the general populace! Who's with me on this (no pun intended)?

[ox_junior]

Oliver,
 
If you're using the tracks from Rich Rowley, we have the same problem - the click bleeds through slightly on WGFA during the beginning but isn't really audible through the rest of the tune.  Hasn't really been noticable for us, except in the studio (ugh).
 
KMH,
 
I've been pursuing your idea for a year now.  Hard to get all the bands together in one room, since they come from all over.  Failing that, I also tried to put together a Who Tribute supergroup - of course, each band wants all their members represented - again, a stalemate.
 
So for now, each area of the US will have to just live with the Who tributes they have!  Lucky for us, my band appears to be the only one west of the Mississippi.  
 
And it would seem Ollie has a lock on Germany!
 
Mike

[ajdover]

Mike/Ollie,
 
   I'd be happy just to find a band to play with.  I live in musical hell (Fayetteville, NC), where if you don't play country, blues, or I-want-to-eat-your-children death metal stuff, there just isn't anything.  Consider yourselves lucky to be playing the stuff you are - I have to content myself with plugging in the Ipod and playing along to my Who collection.
 
Mike,
 
I'll be in LA at the end of the month - I'm doing some recording with my brother who lives in Culver City.  Maybe we can hook up for a beer or something.
 
Best regards,
 
Alan

[ox_junior]

Alan,
 
I don't envy you regarding your musical situation.  I am lucky to live in an area that is somewhat, barely, tolerant to what we do.  And I mean BARELY - we have to go out of town to get any shows of substance.  I hope you find some players who share whatever vision you may have.
 
I would love to meet up with you at month's end.  Let me know when you're here, the beer's on me.
 
Mike

[811952]

Alan,
 
When you posted I-want-to-eat-your-children death metal stuff, I had this mental image of how you might present such a dish (you being a chef and all).  Some sort of flowery cut veggies with a light sauce perhaps?  Or more of a Chowder?
 
Good luck with the musical landscape.  Things do tend to go in cycles, so maybe you'll get a musical reprieve soon...
 
Mike,
 
When I lived in LA in the mid '80s it was sacrilege to play anything other than originals.  No pressure there, eh?  So I ended up playing a lot of crappy original music.  Could have really used a WHO band!
 
I think it's time somebody yelled for more pictures of Oliver's new bass!
 
John

[ox_junior]

John,
 
It still is sacrilege to play anything other than originals here.  I personally would never ever have considered playing in a tribute act if it wasn't The Who, and even then, we had to be GOOD (still working on the 'good' bit).  The tribute band thing is quite comical. Most popular tributes here are to The Doors or 80's hair bands. Some enjoy a 'kitsch' following because they're so bad that they're good!  There is absolutely NO traditional Top 40 cover band scene here whatsoever.  Very strange.
 
So...we are based in LA but must leave town to get work.  Ironic.  The talent pool to get the band happening is here, the fan base and the appropriate venues are not.
 
OK enough about tributes....more about Ollie's new bass!!!
 
Mike