Young Col
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Was at a friend's 60th bash last night in the village of Ugely (no idea if it really is so, as I've only seen it at night), Herts, nr Stansted. SLoB country and a long way from the usual Surrey haunts. An already over loud disco (for the size of hall) had us bopping to Tina Turner's Simply the Best, when just as the sax solo comes in the DJ segues into something else in totally different time (didn't even use headphones to try to cue it up). Then there's a step change in volume and the already hard pressed speakers start to distort and the top end is positively painful (triggered my tinnitus and it still hasn't subsided).
Mrs YC and I left the dance floor along with others and I tried to track down old friend Eddie, a class rock/pop semi-pro electric bass player from Newmarket, only to find he too has taken refuge in a back room where he can talk reasonably - and that from a bass player who is used to gigging in pubs four nights a week!
Why do DJs have to run things with so little regard for their audience or their surroundings? Do they just have too huge egos? And it wasn't just us oldies who were finding the assault on our ears too much!
Anyway, said friend Eddie had been gigging with a good American country rockish singer called Phil Crawford, around Newmarket, Cambridge way. There's a list of pub gigs on his Myspace site. There's also a video of him, overdubbed with one of his own ballads, living an apparently iddylic life on an old barge on the fens, feeding sheep and gigging in pubs (with my mate Eddie on bass). If anyone's short of a bass player up that way let me know by PM and I can put you in touch (he didn't ask me to say that but he just loves playing).
Yours with hurting ears and consequently no sax practice today!
Colin
Mrs YC and I left the dance floor along with others and I tried to track down old friend Eddie, a class rock/pop semi-pro electric bass player from Newmarket, only to find he too has taken refuge in a back room where he can talk reasonably - and that from a bass player who is used to gigging in pubs four nights a week!
Why do DJs have to run things with so little regard for their audience or their surroundings? Do they just have too huge egos? And it wasn't just us oldies who were finding the assault on our ears too much!
Anyway, said friend Eddie had been gigging with a good American country rockish singer called Phil Crawford, around Newmarket, Cambridge way. There's a list of pub gigs on his Myspace site. There's also a video of him, overdubbed with one of his own ballads, living an apparently iddylic life on an old barge on the fens, feeding sheep and gigging in pubs (with my mate Eddie on bass). If anyone's short of a bass player up that way let me know by PM and I can put you in touch (he didn't ask me to say that but he just loves playing).
Yours with hurting ears and consequently no sax practice today!
Colin