Bongo Fury

mrsdreamwarrior wrote:just reminded me about harrogate,mvous is a musician from harrogate as well.

It's a bit arty up that way on I think

Mountain wrote:

mrsdreamwarrior wrote:just reminded me about harrogate,mvous is a musician from harrogate as well.

It's a bit arty up that way on I think

and a bit further north there's us - medieval minstrels in a Bongo!

and a bit further north there's us - medieval minstrels in a Bongo!

Cool
I'm not quite medieval but I do play mandolin and bazouki

I did experiment with some medieval style bass playing to acompany a classical guitarist......in a punk band that I was in 20years ago

Hi Mountain

Hope things are all sorted now, which garage in Harrogate did you take it to?

I'm a brass player by the way...Tenor Horn to be precise and have also played cornet, Flugel Horn, Euphonium and Baritone. Never mastered any of them
Now I'm teaching myself Guitar after being inspired by Mikeonb4c.......he's better than he makes out to be

Jason

mvous wrote:Hi Mountain

Hope things are all sorted now, which garage in Harrogate did you take it to?

I'm a brass player by the way...Tenor Horn to be precise and have also played cornet, Flugel Horn, Euphonium and Baritone. Never mastered any of them
Now I'm teaching myself Guitar after being inspired by Mikeonb4c.......he's better than he makes out to be

Jason

As my old bass playing mate, rock legend John McCoy said to me though "It sounds great, the thing is can you reproduce that performance playing live." The answer is no . OK maybe if I actually practised regularly and did live gigs then I might. But I dont, and I've no real urge to be a frontman guitarist. The thing I really miss doing, the thing I reckon I'd have been good at, is producing. That's my real enthusiasm. So I got this Fostex 8-track and 'wrote' bass and drum lines on a Zoom box and laid them down on track 1 and track 2, then started playing a guitar rhythm over them until I captured something that more or less worked, then added lead guitar(s) and blues harp, tambourine etc. then I got the Big Man in to add his vocals, then I mixed it and added the necessary ambience. Eh Voila To do that would have taken a fullblown studio when I was in bands.

But I'm no virtuoso guitarist - trust me

mvous wrote:Hi Mountain

Hope things are all sorted now, which garage in Harrogate did you take it to?

Strayside.

mikeonb4c
Cakewalk for your computer, a CD of dry sampled drums and a DI box. Plug those instruments in and compose away

you cant have my pipe from mazda garage, neil rang up today and said someone else wants the same pipe, it got to be you, im hoping to get there today to pick mine up.

dreamwarrioruk wrote:you cant have my pipe from mazda garage, neil rang up today and said someone else wants the same pipe, it got to be you, im hoping to get there today to pick mine up.

Yep, that was me phoning this morning!
Mine's going to take a while, but my compression tape fix seems to be holding leak free so far.

thanks for the garage recommendation Mountain, been looking for a Bongo freindly garage near me for ages and it turns out I know the guy at Strayside Mark his name is, thouroughly nice chap who is going to fit my drop links tommorow and do the servicing from now on

Mountain wrote:

mvous wrote:Hi Mountain

Hope things are all sorted now, which garage in Harrogate did you take it to?

Strayside.

mikeonb4c
Cakewalk for your computer, a CD of dry sampled drums and a DI box. Plug those instruments in and compose away

Thought about Cakewalk but didn't want to be chained to the PC or learning sophisticated software. The little Fostex can be taken anywhere and once you've got used to its bizarre menuing is really quite simple and has very nice sounds on it. I've not used it much since I made those tracks up some years back - once I'd got some stuff out of my system the enthusiasm waned. I found too that it takes real focus to compose and produce a bunch of tracks.

Wopps - I'm way off thread again

mvous wrote:thanks for the garage recommendation Mountain, been looking for a Bongo freindly garage near me for ages and it turns out I know the guy at Strayside Mark his name is, thouroughly nice chap who is going to fit my drop links tommorow and do the servicing from now on

Yes, nice bloke and very knowledgeable......I was expecting a bigger bill too

I've not used it much since I made those tracks up some years back - once I'd got some stuff out of my system the enthusiasm waned. I found too that it takes real focus to compose and produce a bunch of tracks.

LOL. Same goes for me and the cakewalk. I had a burst of enthusiasm and now I don't seem to have the time or patience