@boo Here he explains the technique
 

 

It must have been about 35 years ago that I went to a musical instruments fair in Rotterdam. There were several clinics and as a drummer I visited a clinic of Jim Kilpatrick. He was announced as one of the…   Read more»

Virtual friends…

@tv101 You shouldn’t feel bad about that. I don’t take myself too seriously so I don’t expect others to take me too seriously 😜 

Have you got a Multi Track Recorder Marcel? You could play everything on your own recordings. Yes I do, but I haven´t used it for years now. It´s a good recorder (a Yamaha 12-track) but it´s not very easy to…   Read more»

Another band who do a great job are The Fendertones. They cover Beach Boys songs, which by no means is a simple task considering the great vocal harmonies and the recording methods used by Brian Wilson with lots of double…   Read more»

@tv101 The first time I saw a video of Foxes and Fossils was a few years ago. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and seeing. It’s a video from 2010 and the girls were 15 and 16 years old…   Read more»

My favorite Dutch guitar player is Harry Sacksioni. In his teens he was not only a talented guitarist but also a very talented football player who was in the youth team of Ajax. At the age of seventeen it became…   Read more»

Now, while most people in the UK probably never heard of Supersister or Alquin I guess there are some who will remember the Dutch seventies band Focus. The guitarist of the band, Jan Akkerman, in those days was considered one…   Read more»

Another Dutch band from the seventies, and for me the best Dutch band ever, was Alquin. First time I saw them live was in 1975. They split up two years later but reunited in 2003, only with a new (and…   Read more»

@frocesterbill It’s a Rickenbacker 4003S in Midnight blue.

Today I would have been playing with both my bands “Akoestische Heeren”and “Lemon Curry” at the local Rock Urbanus festival. But a virus got in the way. This was the last gig we did shortly before the lockdown.

To tighten the mood even more here’s one of my favorites from Richard Cheese.

 

I take you all back to the seventies of the previous century, when I was a young rebel at secondary school. One of Dutch band at that time was ‘Supersister’.

Four long haired guys from The Hague who played…   Read more»

@clinton It’s a great amp and a wonderful cab. I chose this cab with my ears. A couple of years ago I was attending a gathering of bass players where there was a blind test of cabs. One bass, one…   Read more»

What are you using to make a noise? I’ve used several amps and cabs over the years. But the last two years my noise comes through an Eich T-900 amp.

It’s a very small amp (0.7″ x 1.6″ x…   Read more»

A mate of mine has a very pretty natural blond Gibson 335…..

Gentlemen prefer blondes….