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Post by roddy byers on Oct 8, 2012 15:34:12 GMT
I did ask Jerry if there was room for my style of guitar playing in his future music plans.. He kinda spluttered and then stared at me, this was at the meeting we all had at the Hilton Hotel London pre-reunion. Maybe my style is too dated?
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Post by TTN on Oct 8, 2012 16:47:38 GMT
Not dated nor outdated
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 9, 2012 9:22:17 GMT
*RETRO RODDY RADIATION*
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Post by Hugh on Oct 9, 2012 15:38:03 GMT
Does Jerry consider himself a musician?
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Post by anarchyman on Oct 10, 2012 7:10:43 GMT
I'm not sure its a case of them thinking your playing is outdated. It's not as if they've tried to update the songs in any way. They probably want the bands live mix to be like the original studio recordings. But that is making the bands live sound different to what it was in the 70s/80s, less edgy and less exciting.
I reckon if they ever did replace you if would be with someone copying your style and guitar parts verbatim...and it would still be very low in the mix. As for Jerry he would probably only want a lounge jazz guitarist for his future music plans, which of course isn't outdated at all...
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 10, 2012 9:51:35 GMT
The Specials always sounded better live... but now its or-castrated.. I think Jerry would want a session player not an individual artest.
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 12, 2012 8:22:39 GMT
Four years is longer than b4..
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Post by phillyj on Oct 12, 2012 15:00:38 GMT
ok, fair enough Roddy and I realise all the Hong Kong Phoeye you've had to put up with in those 4 years...but, in those years I've managed to get to see 6 of the original line up live (due to age and overbearing parents this wasn't possible first time round) and took my 15 yr old daughter last year to see you in Brighton, so I appreciate all the efforts involved in allowing this to happen 30 years later. Trouble is, my now 13 year old boy thinks it unfair that he hasn't seen 'The Specials' live yet, he is hoping for more tours!
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 15, 2012 7:59:23 GMT
Well im affraid thats out of my hands..
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Post by liamska on Oct 15, 2012 12:22:21 GMT
The Specials always sounded better live...
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 15, 2012 14:53:15 GMT
I never liked my guitar sound on the first album - too trebilly.. The secound was a nightmare too make... Yes maybe its time too stop again?
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Post by phillyj on Oct 16, 2012 12:37:15 GMT
but if it stops again, does history repeat itself and the Bun Boy Tree reform?
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Post by roddy byers on Oct 16, 2012 14:13:37 GMT
Who nose..
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Post by mrclaypole on Oct 23, 2012 10:31:10 GMT
I hate when I try and record guitars at home, i can never get a consistent sound from one session to the next. I want soemthing like not clean, but clean enough to solo and play reggae chops. I soend half my time Sir Sydney Shelf Stackering about and in the end the creativity goes out the window as I ve forgotten what was going round my head before I started to fiddle about.
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Post by mrclaypole on Oct 23, 2012 10:34:08 GMT
The Specials always sounded better live... The firs6t time I heard the 1st album 21 years ago, I often though tthat it sounded liek it had been mixed in a shoe box, The vocals arent that clear. Still the band are better live anyway. But criticisms aside I think alot of those albums by bands on independant labels all seem to have a very lo fi sound, probably due to the fact that they recorded in smaller studios and not Abbey Road.
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