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.

Not to often, still it happens that a few words in my mind beguins to form the lyrics to a song in just a matter of a few minutes. the lyrics below is one of those things that just happens. The song complete with its music was written - bad or good in a matter of less then half and hour.

The main part of all songs I ever have written is a story taken from the BDSM-Fetish scene as I know it. This song is also telling its small story about a couple who meet for the first time in what is supposed to be a long time bdsm-relation between the two of em.

HE - SHE

She - was standing in the corner of an empty street

She - waiting for a man, she was supposed to meet.

He - Was he the one

He - Was he the one

Will he make her shiver

can his touch make her cry out loud

will he make her go insane

take her to the skye above the clouds.

´Will he give her the love she need,

give her pain and pleasure.

Give her all, her hungre feed.

In chains he hold her life, a treasure.

Can he make her dream come true

will he be her man and master.

The one he stands right by her side

she hopes, now and for ever after.

As usual the next thing to do is to record it and then listen to the song over and over again in hope to find things inte the music or in the words that doesnt fit in. As soon as the recording is ready it will be found on my YouTube account.

"dare studio´s"

in other words my musicroom

Any complains in regards of my own singing capability is rightful, unfortinutly Im not the best singer. But at least I try and maybe with the help of some electronic gadgets I can make my own song sound if not good so at least poissble for someone to listen to.

playing the almost new ES-175

In my last blog-attemt I wrote about the interesst show at Youtube for my songs. Looking into the statistics once again today to my delight I found that ap 35% of those listening to my songs is female! Also that theres been almost 15000 weivers on all of me songs... things that with ease could make me happy.

To all of you, thanks.

New songs will be added and new recordings of earlier songs will also appere instead of the old ones.

a slightly mad world

For a long time by now Ive been thrilled by the impact of YouTube. With that in mind I´ve placed some of me own songs there. Natuarly in hope that somebody out there would appriciate em, maybe even like em.
Some of the songs are old recording performed by my band "pbp", those recordings at least have the benefit of great female voices, something I cant say regarding song performed by me self. I love to sing, but I would never consider me as someone with a great voice, not even a voice.
On the other hand what to do when Your mind tries to speak out what You wanna sing, and noone is there to assist. Well then its a matter of DIY and the rest is up to the listener. Mybe He or She like the song but not Me singing it. That, I can live with for sure.
As stated earlier many of my songs can be found at YouTube and natuarly from time to time (almost everyday) I check out the statistics telling -How many times someone actually listen to em.
Those figuers make me wonder, there is some songs that hardly ever been listen to, yet some of them would if not qualify for some kind of amatuer hit list. Ive listed em here, why I dont know but for some odd reason "shes a ponygirl have had 4000+ listeners!!??. Telling for sure theres a load of perferverts out there.
At this moment yet another song is beeing recorded and when its ready I might take it to YouTube.
One main reason for mer writing all those songs about the people in the BDSM-fetish world is mainly beacuse I regard it as a world filled with love, even if it may look different to what we normaly call love.


Dont make Him loose - 19
(performed by Jeanette M, excellent female singer)
Until that day - 22
(some kind of lovesong)
Along the road - 28
(the story of a girl in Denmark thats was forced to move)
I´m a bad,bad Girl - 37
(hmm, her I despreatly need a female voice)
He looks like Batman - 120
(the story of an old freind, today unfortinutly suffering from Alzheimers)
If theres a wall - 123
(this may be a nice battlesong for all perverts at the scene)
White Houses - 228
(curiosity thats for sure)
Slavegirl Blues - 249
(performed by Jeanette M)
S/M Interlude - 307
(my own answer to Ravels Bolero)
Prepare girl - 2011
(yet another lovesong to my life companion whom I love)
She´s a Ponygirl - 4407
(well this ones a bit naughty, and fun)

all songs can be listened to if you search for em at YouTube.
have fun, life is great.

Somewhere out there

It happens all the time in any non-given moment that a few words pops in to Me mind. With luck a few hours later the lyrics to a song is ready on paper. At that moment the ready product is clear sounding in my head. I know exactly how it will sound.

Next step is to plug in guitars, keyboards into the amps and computer, in hope to get a demo recording of the tune. A job that´l take hours! At last everything seams to be fair enough to use when I realise that I have to do it all over. Maybe I missed a chord somewhere or played a faulty note in a solo sequense.

A couple of days later the demo is redy to be used. Now its time to use a microphone and sing the best I can do. A couple of channels will be used for the vocals and in app 90% those channels will not sound at all like the tune in my head. Do it again....

And so it goes on and on until I finally give it all up realising that I cant sing the way I want to!

The Epiphone ES-175 guitar seams to be getting used to its new owner, and with that starting to sound just the way I hoped it should. Well with only two humbucking microphones I thought it might give even better sound with an extra microphone so such an item was installed. Next on cue is to give the guitar a Bigsby tremolo unit.

The progress of my band is going on furter. One out of hopefully three female lead singers have been found and she may be occupied in singing some kind of karioke at her home with the recorded song as background.

An adwert for an old Kenwood reciever at zero cost made me jump and call the owner who was actually an old freind of mine. Leaving His place with the Kenwood He also did agree to play the drums in the band....great.