more born to be alive

 "pbp-band"

There is almost a magic feeling when you start a project like forming a band. In my case not a new band, thou Im trying to give new life into an old project. A project that always starts with an almost insane dream. A dream of once again entering a stage and entertaining the crowd.

A way to bring life into your bag full of songs that has been written-composed.

A one man band may be a hit in the street corner, but thats not apart of my dream. So I started my search for wannabee members in this project band for oldtimers.

And as you all could read in my last blog I found "mrs amimna" a talented woman with a grat voice. During the time of me last blog contact was establish´d with a man who actually could play the drums. 

So I was invited to a rehersal in Haninge south of Stockholm and there I met with this wonder man. 

The rehersal proofed that he is the right man for my project band. So instead of beeing just a guitarplayer with a load full of music and a female singer the "pbp-band" project was suddenly a building project that showed some kinde of future. "Builder Bob" showed in every way that he 

wanted to be a part of the band.

A three man band was on its way, when I discovered that the bands former lead vocalist "Mrs Paddington" showed some kind of interesst. Checking the YouTube-Facebook I found out that she had made a link to our earlier songs. 

Could it be that she was interessting in once again be a part of the band? As far as i knew she was fully occupied living on a small Swedish island. Still its almost 20 years that have passed since the band made its last performance.

A young talented bassplayer is known by me, and its about time for me to ask him if he might be interessted in this project. With a bit of luck the band will be at least a 5 man band.

So if things seams to work out my way with this mad bandproject. A female singer who also know how to play keyboard would be great. Then the chanses of bringing life in "pbp-band" could be a reality.

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This morning gave me the opportunity to listen to web-radio. Followed a link on Facebook and there, suddenly i was listening to CKUA radio network i Canada. Clearly to me a very different radiostation and maybe one responsible for Sarah Macdougalls sucess all over the world. Latest news tells that She now is on Top-5 list in Roots-Country in Canada with her album "the greatest one alive".  Sometimes You loose-sometimes you win. 

Shes the best import from Sweden since ABBA says many musiccritics who heard her album. A dear freind of mine fell desperatly in love with her music and ordered both her albums. He keep them in his Audi TT and plays them round the clock where ever he is...

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Tomorrow "dare-studios" once again move´s to Orust meaning that the car will be filled with instruments. My old Galson-Fender Jazzbass is still going to be sold, and as far as i can see it I will get pay´d for it in a way that makes it possible to buy the Burns Shadow bass. I would have prefered a Bison bass, but they are at the moment sold out.

This great Burns Shadows Bass will fit perfectly in me collection of Burns Guitars.

           

born to be alive

After hours, days and month´s I made an attemt to give my project band a new life. The main problem is to find members who is interessted with this particular type of music. Not that the music as such is extremly difficult to bring to life, but rather that it takes some kind of guts to perform it the way its supposed to be performed. 

Earlier constellations of the group has been / Drums, Bass, Rhytmguitar, Leadguitar like rockbands from the 60-ies, Plus three girls performing the vocals but also acting partly as trademarks for the band.

Research for members interessted in the project gave a nice female voice nick-named "amimna". To her I sent by email backingtracks to a song, and later on it was returned. The result was in my point of weiv great, so one of the gaps in the band could be filled.

After hours of finding and recording the first tune in a proper key it was sent by email to her, and a while later she returned it to me. the result can be listen to at Youtube following the link below.

Im a bad bad Girl

During the last days I also found one of those rare guys that plays drums, and is able to keep the rhytm!!! So at this very moment the "pbp" is a trio....He calls him self "Builder-Bob"


Search goes on to find the more members of the band, it would be real nice to have both a bass and a leadplayer and also hopefully two more female voices.  
If you who read this find this Band-project interessting please let me know.


New subject:
After using my 1972 Galson-Fender Jazzbass, I realised that it can be sold for quite a lot of money today, leading to a swap to a new Burns Bass. In that way I will add an extra Burns guitar to my collection. Yet I have to decide what kind of bass I want. The Marvin styled one or a Bison.

 

More coming up.

Rock n Roll gadgets

Auctions on the net seams to be the new perfect place to buy and sell old worn things, and natuarly websites like ebay is an important website for me. Is there a possibility to find and buy a nicce old Burns guitar, an amplifier from the 60-ies or some of the other things that still is to be found om me wishing-list to Santa.

In Sweden at least theres a saying, not to cry over spilled milk (not to cry over things that you once owned) but then again maybe you could find them on ebay. Maybe the nice TEAC 4 track redorder?

Anyway to take a step back on memory lane i´ll sometimes start wondering why, instead of crying.

Hagström guitar amplifier with twin inputs,

made it possible to both use it for a guitar and a vocal microphone.

10 watts of tube power

As a youngster I started with a cheap electric guitar plugged in to the family old tube radio. Dreaming of a real guitar amplifier and more output power. On my behalf it lead to a 10 watt Hagström.

Family of 60-ies VOX amps,

a dream for most bands in the 60-ies.

Clips with the Beatles, the Shadows and all the other bands gave us the real thing. A VOX amp, and in the mid 60-ies I bought a VOX AC30. Half a year later it was swapped to the even larger AC50!! Top of the line in my world of guitar amplifiers. By this time noone wanted a Hagström amp, even the German Dynacord amps often used for the vocals was out of date.

Suddenly there was this new types of amplifiers, even VOX started to make solid state transistor amplifiers. All leading to the old tube amps was ready for the junkyard.

the Dynacord Jazz, tube amp with 20 watts.

common in Sweden by the time.

Those tubeamplifiers was never silent, there was always a disturbing humming sound coming from them and bad earthconnection. So everyone went for new state of art silent transistor amps.

Today those state of art, solid state transistor amplifiers are scrap and only sought after by collector who dont intend to use them, and top of the line is once again the tube amps with its sweeteer sound.

Burns Orbit Two,

transistor amp from the 60-ies.

20 watt solid state power, silent.

And so suddenly theres a 40+ year old Burns amplifier on sale at UK ebay, after a bit of struggle and help from an english freind we did win that auction and soon this old amp will arrive to Sweden. (maybe it even works).

Burns Bizon 1963 and a Burns Orbit Double Twelve amp.

50 watts of solidstate transistor power.

Mean time I found a nice old 8 channel mixer unit on a Swedish auctionsite, and suddenly became owner of that old useful gadget for the price of 90,oo skr. (the price of 2 packs of cigerettes!) It even works,,,,

the Wolfes with a complete Burns stack of amps and guitars.

Today extremly rare to find!!

So todays blogsite is about finding and buying back that sound of the 60-ies and hopefully recreate it in my home.