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Er jeg den eneste her på HFS som synes The Blues Band(thebluesband.com) får rockefoten til å gå av ledd?
Blant de beste utgivelsene sett fra mitt ståsted er det "Ready" og "Green Stuff" som utmerker seg, da først og fremst på grunn av materialet ettersom "Ready" ikke har spesielt god lydkvalitet.
Hvis du har sansen for blåsere som det svinger skikkelig av er albumet "Brassed Up" en sikker vinner. "Wireless" er også et meget bra album, for ikke å snakke om deres siste utgivelse "Thank You Brother Ray" som er en hyllest til Ray Charles.
Det er også mulig å kjøpe musikk for nedlasting og høre smakebiter (http://thebluesband.com/shop1.htm)
I år kommer de også til Notodden.
Her er en oversikt over utstyret de bruker på scenen:
Paul Jones:
Hohner harmonicas (Hohner endorsee)
Amp: Fender Blues Deville Combo
Shure Beta SM58 microphone
MXR Chorus Pedal
Custom-made noise gate
Tom McGuinness:
Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster
Gibson J50 acoustic guitar
Dobro acoustic mandolin
Fender Twin amplifier
Line modulation pedal
Elixir strings (Elixir endorsee)
(With The Manfreds Tom also uses a Fender Twin amplifier and for both bands he has a Peavey Classic 50 as his spare amp. On the new Blues Band studio album, as yet unreleased, he used all these amps plus a Fender Pro Junior plus a Fender Telecaster).
Dave Kelly:
Guitars: Daves electric is a bit of a mixture. The body was made by Chandler's of Kew. It was originally black with EMG pickups [treble active] but Dave stripped it last summer and had Chandler's replace the pickups with Seymour Duncan. He says, "I may go back to the EMG for the neck pick up as the LA is too dynamic for that position. The original neck was a heavy metal monstrosity made by Arrive, but I replaced that with an ordinary Fender Strat neck this summer. It has a Trilogy bridge built by Hipshot which is more efficient on the Fender neck as the strings are in a straight line on the headstock. (On the Arrive they were out in a fan shape). The Trilogy Bridge enables me to have three different notes settings on each string which enables up to thirteen different tunings (apparently) although I only use Open E, Open A, Open G, Concert and dropped D."
Dave also has two Gibson SGs which he no longer uses except as spares in case of string breaks.
He sometimes uses a Hohner 'stick' electric on solo gigs.
Acoustic: 1. Main one is a Gibson J45 circa 1964 which he bought at auction a few years ago after his Guild was stolen. It has replaced the Guild, surpassing all his expectations.
2. A 1970 metal bodied Dobro which Dave gave to a technician last year, who shall remain nameless, to have it set up, and it came back almost unplayable. Hes had a go at it himself and it's a bit better.
3. A 1935 Gibson Kalamazoo which lives at Daves home in France and is his home guitar, but "it's so lovely I may use it on solo/duo shows again soon."
4. "A couple of years ago I was offered a circa 1941 Martin small bodied acoustic (can't remember the model) which was reasonably priced so I bought it. Haven't used it much as yet."
Strings: "Whatevers on special offer."
Amps: Fender Blues Deville 4 x 10 amplifier, but also still likes his original 1961 VOX AC 30 and Vox reissue circa 1988-ish.
Rob Townsend:
DRUMS : DW [Drum Workshop ] - diamond blue finish
Tom Toms : 10" x 8" , 12" x 9" , 14" x 11" , 16" x 13"
Bass Drum : 22" x 18"
Snares : 14" x 5 1/2 " DW Maple Craviotto
14" x 5 1/2" Yamaha Brass Steve Gadd model
CYMBALS : SABIAN 14" Hi - Hats
" " 16" Crash
" " 10" Splash
" " 14" China
" " 22" Ride
" " 13" X-Hats
" " 20" China
STICKS : Vic Firth AS 5 A wood tips
Vic Firth Wire Brushes
HEADS [ skins ] : Remo Ambassador
PLUS : DW 5000 Hi-Hat Pedal
DW 5000 Double Bass Drum Pedal
Gary Fletcher:
All guitars mentioned are played left-handed but strung right-handed.
Left-handed Westone Thunder 1A bass
Right-handed Fender Jazz bass
Right-handed De Armond Ashbury silicon strung bass
Right-handed Kramer acoustic bass
Left-handed Fender Stratocaster
Right-handed Takamine EN10
Bass strings: RS55 Rotasound
Guitar strings: Ernie Ball regular
Lab Series L2 bass amplifier
Lab Series 1 x 15 Electrovoice speaker cabinet
Marshall 4 x 12 angle speaker cabinet
