Finally Get to post cleaned up Catch Material!

This is "The Catch".. It has Will Cardinal on bass,  who i swiped from Monte Nordstrom, who swiped hin from ocean, who swiped him from the Bells, who swiped him from Ronnie Hawkins..
He gets around... don't he!
Charlie Wade wuz the drummer/percussionist from Belize ... long way to go for rehearsals ;-)
Played in S.America and wuz with Lord Rhaburn, where he had a Gold record!
Not shabby...
What's more, the bands main lyricist and vocalist, Chris Sherlock, had also produced 2 acclaimed childrens albums for his wife, Mahri Sherlock,  who was Also in "The Catch"..
Heady Company indeed......
...oh..i played guitar....


RED SUNSETS

Moving Day! My New Digs...

Aint It A Groove .. !

An the bedroom's huge for a fifth wheel.. the old man looked me earnestly in the eye an said 'you better take the double mattress out and put a single in ...you REALLY shouldn't have one!'
And ya know what... i think he's right.. i'm gonna take the double out, put supports underneath, and put a hot tub in! :)

If ya want to download any of these trax...

leave a comment an I'll give ya a link!

Doctor Boogie via... Mystery Mail!

I mentioned the 'Doctor Boogie' Blues 'n' Jazz album only a couple posts back, that I put out, years ago... well, the masters were ruined in a fire in Vancouver, over 15 years ago.. there was NO way I was ever going to replace them...
Or.. so it seemed.. until someone mailed a copy of my work tape to me 'ol Dad! The way I used to record this stuff, was I'd lay down the guitars and maybe bass, and vocals sometimes, and have only a 'kick' track instead of click track.. this (my work tape) I'd take into the studio and add the drums (with a real drummer!), and or rerecord everything, using the tape as a reference... sometimes I'd just dub the tabe directly to multitrack (as i did in this case).
What I got back, in the mail , was that 'work' tape, that I later transferred to MT .. it was the multitrack master that got destroyed in the fire.... The stereo sub-master got wiped over for the next client , and i lost track of the work tape through various moves etc,, until an anonymous mailer sent it back .. and it still sounds OK.. after a while you no longer notice that there's no real drums ... like on the demos I've been posting :)
It's old, too regular ferric tape, and over 25 years old ... so be forwarned. The material was all original, and a lot slicker than my stuff got later on...

THE QUEST...

TOO MANY POTS ON THE BOILER

What is Audiocandy.....

...and why should i care?
Well, if you like good music, you should...
See, once upon a time, say , in a juke joint down south, maybe.. You'd have a couple guys , or a good band crankin out some raw blues, or something like that.. they'd get to rockin, and the crowd would get to stompin', and the more everybody got into it, the better the band would play, feeding off the crowd..back and forth, like a closed loop.. everybody'd get higher and higher.. but it didn't stop there.. at the end of the evening, the band would get a couple brew or whatever, and start shakin' hands, an sayin hello to everyone... maybe give a couple 78 rpms away, or later on, cassettes, or whatever... everybody'd be happy. They'd wave hello to the guys on the street the next day , or something like that... Somewhere along the way, however, Big Business came along...
Suddenly, the stage got higher.. there was no time to talk to the folks who came to see the show.. 'cuz the band hadda get in their stretch limo to get to the next gig quick.. to pay off their LOAN to the Big Record Company, that was not giving away anymore loss leaders ... the band were 'up there' and the fans were those 'plebes' down there... no closed loop .. can you really see any performance intimacy there, really?
It aint right... it Just Ain't Right...Somebody oughta do something to set things right.... Well, guess what... someone has.. Audiocandy...

....continued in part 2... later on...!

OK y'all HERE IT COMES the late the GREAT!!!!! Freddy King

My absolute number #1 fave guitar player all my life...... Who else do ya ever need to listen to...?

My take on John Lee Hooker (back in '79)

This is how i used to play the blues ... 30 years ago! I did several JLH tunes... Got the nick 'Doctor Boogie' for quite a while... even released an album under that name...



My apologies! Appears that this was, in fact, 1984... it appeared on an independent album release i did called 'Midnight Run"... Ah, well, it was such a long time ago..cells get old an grey.. p.s... when the photo of me posted here on my site was taken 2 years ago, i hadn't been playing for almost 10 years!
I rarely say this, but despite my obviously inexperienced recording skill at the time, I'll stand by this one even now, 25 years later!

Moving day soon...

I'm not going to be posting for a while soon, as I'm moving, and internet access is going to be a challenge as there's no cable where I'm going.. gonna have to improvise! Cheers from Doc...

Everybody needs a good rainy day song...

...and here's mine



I'm gonna (maybe) post this one on Audiocandy too.. I STRONGLY suggest you check it (Audiocandy) out... even if it's only to go to Bob Welch's page instead of mine :)
Worth it...

Bootleg blogs under attack?

I don't mean to worry y'all... but i've been seeing, and have heard from folks who know, that theres things afoot to mess up our boot blogs... Now I don't care about the folks that post hundreds of legit releases and don't even bother to write a single review or comment of any kind... as far as i'm concerned they're just thieves and i have no interest in them.. But those that have genuine reviews, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, the bootleg blogs, are valuable resources, and we, (i'm speaking about most musicians) don't want to lose 'em. We like 'em, we want 'em, we need 'em... See, often, those of us still nailed `to a contract (and i'm NOT!!!!) CAN'T release a lot of this stuff , even if we wanted to... and it's not that we don't like others to hear the inner workings of this stuff, alternate takes, yadda yadda, or that WE don't get inspiration from others also... I'm not sure what to do at this point, and i hope to god I'm wrong, but i thought i'd better pass this on as i heard it.... sorry

OK.. Back to Electric Crunchy morsels!

Here's a nice Kick ass one , i think.. no lyrics, yet, just lotsa guitar