Bubba's Bar 'n' Grill

I love the Newer Iron Cobra double pedal. It is an articulate pedal. I am sure that there are faster pedals on the market, but I'm not too fast.

I want to be able to play clear and articulate ghost notes. It's so hard to develop! ...when they are played accurately and consistently....

(12-05-2010 07:47 AM)VincentUlyssis Wrote: [ -> ]I want to be able to play clear and articulate ghost notes. It's so hard to develop! ...when they are played accurately and consistently....

Roger that Ghost Rider... pattern is full. I would much rather not hear it at all than to hear it butchered. Sayin?

Sorry Goose - but its time to buzz the tower!

Sometimes I crack myself up.....

Cause yer a funny guy!

Gee....I always preferred Wild and Crazy with an arrow thru my head.....

(12-05-2010 02:55 AM)ePhilosopher9 Wrote: [ -> ]cheers
have you ever thought about backup-singing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4oPCUoILQ&NR=1

dahling don't you ever sit and wonder...

Just wondering why you've posted this video in 3 or 4 different places? Wassup?

Quote:Just wondering why you've posted this video in 3 or 4 different places? Wassup?

Maybe it is for (upto) 4 different back up singers??

Or maybe as the album is "skylark" it is "larking" around.

Then again - who knows? I never have understood an ep9 thread - but that is me - slow on the uptake.

(12-06-2010 11:31 AM)NWoBHM Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:Just wondering why you've posted this video in 3 or 4 different places? Wassup?

Maybe it is for (upto) 4 different back up singers??
Or maybe as the album is "skylark" it is "larking" around.
Then again - who knows? I never have understood an ep9 thread - but that is me - slow on the uptake.

I truly wish that i was more clear in trying to express what I am trying to say. I suppose you just consider me that 'squeak' in the bass drum pedal, lol.

I remember when my band used to play, and there was that ever present squeak running throughout our songs. It gave us that feel of a traveling carnival ride two towns past where the rickety ferris wheel needed maintenance. Or perhaps we were just the tin lizzy jalopy heaving and ho'ing down the road.

Reminds me of cymbal duty from the old high school days. "Take these cymals home and polish them up and make them shine", the demanded of me, then handed me the Brasso. But that never seemed to work well. I would always end up with rags full of greenish pudding like a garment on the Statue of Liberty. And the cymbals would come out 'clean', but not really that bright shine that everyone expects, when you flash and whirl them between the crashes with them strapped intoyour hands. So in my quest I have experimented on trying to shine cymbals to no avail, using strange products like Soft Scrum, Bon Ami, A Barkeeper's Friend, Marvel Mystery Oil, lemon juice, coca cola and battery chargers, honey and vinegar, etc... nothing really worked though, obviously. I bet that product Tarn-X works, though. Any news on this?

So you can picture my old band now, the one with the dull cymbals and the squeaky pedal.

So you see, it's just like "pushing the pedals on the season cycle", kind of.

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... because to me, it's just like riding a bike. Having played drums from the age of five to about age thirty, when the pressurers of real life hit, and I had to drop the sticks, and after being on a percussionist's hiatus, or sabbatical, depending on how you look at it. After almost fifteen years of non-playing, except for a few times a year stint with some guys in the neighborhood with the urge to all simultaneously agree to the chant of "let's jam", returning to drumming recently was simply and truly 'just like riding a bike', rusty and squeaky as it is. But with the new edition of the Roland TD9 with bass snare three toms hi hat & 2 cybmals (which don't need shining), all which augments my ancient analog 6 piece Pearl set (it's pronounced "Pearl") with my one true love ride cymbal, hihat 2crash 1chinatype, and 3rototoms, (whew) getting back on the throne is truly like riding a bike! Albeit now with the electronic drums, it's a motorbike! I'll have to take a picture of my drumset and post it on here.

Speaking of squeaks, rememeber when Gladys Knight's back up singer was going through puberty? You should have heard that Pip Squeak!

But I digress. Come to think of it, my old 'throne' squeaks, too. Any recommendations of the best seat? I saw some at Guitar Center, but most of them gave me gonadal issues,lol. Perhaps I shoudl just get a hover-round with one of those doughnut hole cushions to sit upon. But why bring health care into this. "If medicare doesn't cover the gap in my insurance (the voices in his head says) this supplemental insurance will fill in the donut hole".

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...which reminds me of that one gig we had at our most frequented venue...

Remember that movie Dead Man Walking with Susan Sarandon (sp?) and Sean Penn? Well, the real life nun that Sarandon played, Sister Helen Prejean, came to see us perform, and she later wrote a letter to me saying that I looked "like King Tut perched on his throne".

That was touching.

But it also made me wonder if she meant that I had one of those weird elongated skulls like the boy king? I bet he was really an ancient astronaut/alien. And then I picture the cover of a Farewell to Kings.
You see, not only the soundtrack of our lives, but also the imagery.

Thank you.

Now if someone could direct me to that thread that I read about any suggestions for a hypothetical Feedback 2 album, I would be most grateful.

Quote:I suppose you just consider me that 'squeak' in the bass drum pedal, lol.

Hi ep9 I finally understood something "squeak" as in the Speed King, or as people used to call them "squeak kings"