Band rehearsals

So... I just got the band together. Some simple replies to an online ad but the response has been positive. You must read how people respond to see if they are serious. Hay I'm putting a lot of cash up front to make the band happen. There is nothing worse than someone responding to a band ad and then bailing out when it’s time to meet and jam. It happens a lot or it’s been my experience in New Hampshire where people respond to my ad then it comes time to produce, and they disappear. Either show up or shut up, plain and simple. I’m in Boston now and the mood has changed. Hoping the members stay with the band. Their response to the ad is very positive. Simple response but I can tell they are serious about joining. Rehearsals start next week on Saturday February 10, 2024. I am moving my gear in this weekend. Audio gear and amps. EAW monitors, Klark Teknik analog sound gear, Fender Twin and an old Bassman head for guitar or bass with a 2x12 cab. I think it’s a 1974. My Twin is a 1973 with a master volume. Master volumes are important and a necessity. You can’t have a 100-watt amp in a room and produce the tones you want on volume 2. It needs to be cranked a bit and turned down on the outlet volume. That’s just how most amps work. Or older amps work, today it’s a bit different. There is just no beating an old Marshall or Fender or Mesa. I was hoping to have band together by last spring, but it didn’t happen for a variety of reasons. You know, you plan things, but they come out different every time. To keep pushing forward is the key to the door. Just keep pushing forward as resistance settles in. Like a lineman on a football team, just push mother effer!!! Recently I was remembering my football days, and I enjoyed those days. I played defensive end and loved that position. You did not run my side because I had you in my sights. Never take your eye off the football, never. And always tackle at the legs. It hurts but they go down, every time. And when he's down you tell him "YOU DON"T RUN MY SIDE BITCH." You make sure he remembers you. Look right at him. Today I won’t give up guitar because I gave up football and wish I never did.

France

Welcome to my friends in France...welcome to my world...thanks,

Dess

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Happy House Hunting

For some apparent reason, many writers on the internet are complaining that people cannot afford a house working a job that pays 75,000 per year. Working 40 hours per week you will barely afford a condo never mind a house. This has been true for the past 30 years or more. It has taken two jobs or two incomes to afford a house. This is nothing new. Writers are deliberately misleading a younger generation that this is something new. That working 40 hours per week you have some type of right to be able to afford a house and you are being ripped off. Not true, it has been like this sense I can remember and most likely even before. Throw all the numbers you want at me; this has been the standard. I believe in the 1950's you could afford a house on one income with only 40 hours per week. Those days are long gone and mostly forgotten. Don't be fooled. This is making people wait as if there is going to be a collapse in home prices. Most area’s this is not going to be the case and you could be missing out on the buy it now before it rises. I’m a believer that home prices will move north as soon as interest rates fall. That is now being

predicted for the fourth quarter of 2024.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Keith Richards and Mick Taylor

Ok there's this long-standing debate on who came up with the guitar parts to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." Both Keith and Mick (guitarist for the Stones in the early seventies) both claim they came up with the guitaring part. Any guitarist out here knows the song and knows the debate. WHO PLAYED GUITAR ON CAN"T YOPU HERE ME KNOCKING. There’s an old article out here by I believe it was Jimmy Miller who talks about being there and pressing record on the mixer as they played the song. I believe he claims it was Mick who played it, I would have to find the article to confirm. It turned into a jam session and good this they had the record button on!!! First off: the guitar tuning style was without question: Keith Richards. It was his tuning on the guitar. There are different "tuning" on a guitar that guitarist like and there is no question Keith was doing this at that time and before. But Mick Taylor, new to the band, might have picked up on the tuning and tried it out for himself. He is a fabulous guitarist. Saying this, he might have tried out Keith’s tuning being new to the band and started jamming this song. He was quite capable of jamming out on a moment’s notice. This is evident on live videos where he is playing defiantly than what the song was originally played, by adding notes to the song that were not on the recording. He was that good (and still is). So, while they are still on planet earth, I would like to put them both on the lie detector to see who played the rhythm and lead parts to that song. IDK I just thought I would talk about this. It's been on my mind lately.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA