I was looking at a Myspace of trombonist Joe Bowie of Defunkt. The old downtown NYC band from the 70/80s. I suddenly had a flood of memories of a band I was in called Noise R Us. I joined that band in early 1979 I think or maybe 78 sometime.
The original line up was Lloyd Fonroff-Drums, Jim Matus-guitar, Mickey Ortiz-Vocals, Dave Sewelson-bari sax, George Bishop-tenor sax, Pablo Gebhardt-alto sax and Philip Johnston-soprano sax and me on bass. Our first gig was a Tier 3 in soho NYC. We opened for Luther Thomas and the Dazz band.
Joe Bowie is on this old 1980's compilation called "The Pulse of New York" (Glass Records) with Noise R Us. He and Charles Bobo Shaw were sitting in. It's a board tape made at Trax. The original Noise was something else. A big firestorm of Noise. What fun it was. I stayed in the band till the winter of 1980. Then John Lennon got killed and I left NYC because it upset me. But for about a year we didn't take any prisoners or make any apologies. I started going through all my old clippings and whatnot. Wow. I think I'll put a Noise Myspace up.
<http://www.myspace.com/originalnoiserus>
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
how do you know
I was reading my email and the digi design newsletter was there. The new amp emulation plug in sounds exactly like this and that. How will anyone know? How do you know what a fender jazz bass through a bassman amp really sounds like unless you spent all kinds of time doing that. This emulation stuff is starting to get on my nerves. I have tried some of that and it just is, well ok. I'm always thinking that's ok. This pod thing is ok. This sans thing is ok. Ok is not good or great. Something gets lost and it is very hard to quantify. I think back to high school in the funk band Tragedy A.D. Winston-Salem. Fender Bassman with 2 15's and an Epiphone 1 15 ported stacked. Shit that sounded great. I think I had the first peavy head ever made or something. Just power. Giant transformer. 66 Jazz and hell yeah it sounded good. Those boxes don't sound like that. I couldn't carry all that stuff around now anyway.
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