Les Alizes. 11 December 1998
Part 3.
Photos: People
Sounds: Tribute to Stevie, Tribute to James Brown pt 1&2, Slow blues, Rocking blues.
Plus some notes on getting our sounds onto the net.
Music by Dr Pickup
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A Couple
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Another pilgrim,
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Another couple, Tribute to JB, part 2(1 minute 31 seconds). .
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Another pilgrim, Rocking Blues (1 minute 53 Seconds.
There are 3 party pages here with 5 photos and 5 Real Audio sound clips each.
Party page 1
Photos:People
Sounds: Tear my name out baby (the Internet blues), Meet the people, Presenting the group, Dig the harmonics & Bluestime.
Party page 2
Photos: People
Sounds: Bluestime with Rashid, This is for Sophie, Wild Wild sounds,Interlude,Texas Tbone Walker walk.
Party page 3
Photos: People
Sounds: Tribute to Stevie, Tribute to James Brown pt 1&2, Slow blues, Rocking blues.
This was a cool concert.
The links are for more music clips.
Nice people, great atmosphere and great food. The Police came (there are apartments above the café) had one look at us and how quiet we were playing (it’s all dynamics isn’t it) and went straight back out. Maybe because of this Regis has now booked us in for 3 months on the second Wednesday of each month and then we’ll talk about doing moving this to a Saturday afternoon -evening gig down by the river.
I really enjoyed listening to this concert as I felt we were ‘on’, the rhythm section was ‘hot’, Phil gets his own sound plus that incredible Music Man tone, Rashid played incredibly and even Stringkiller sang and played in tune (Thank you Tom Anderson Guitars , Mesa Boogie amplification and sweet inspiration). I am only sorry not to have a picture of either Pascal or myself as we are focusing more on getting pictures of the pilgrims that come and enjoy listening to us (and getting their comments down for you to hear).
To answer some of your emails :
Some notes on the mix - taped on my Walkman and then recorded onto Creative labs Creative wave studio in the wave format (mono, 22050 bit sampling rate with 16 bit sampling size). This program comes bundled with the soundblaster card). I then crop add fade in and fade out and edit in *.wav.
I spend quite a bit of time pumping the signal up just under distortion levels into the .wav format. This makes it more dynamic and makes it’s sounds like we are playing much louder than we are.
My main concern is picking up enough bass and not too much voice. Why don’t we have more vocals because a lot of the songs are classics or cover number numbers and I don’t want to get into copyright hassles.
Then I take the Real Audio encoder (the older one 3.0(in *.ra) as I don’t like the new one 5.1 because the files (*.rm) don’t play on all (the older) systems. This is where I name and compress the files.
To give you an idea of the Real Audio compression the last song on page two The Texas T-bone Walk (4 minutes and 56 seconds) is 12754 Kb in wave and 578 Kb in Real Audio (at these particular settings of course).
The Alize restaurant concert. 15 January 1999.
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