Tomorrow I hit the road bright and early (owch!) to Chattanooga TN, to play at J-Fest. Should be a great event… Big Daddy Weave are headlining, then there are a bunch of us playing before them including my mate Steve Fee and co-writing friend Matthew West… So I’m excited!
Last weekend in Canada, I borrowed Gordie the drummer from Starfield, to play for me as he already lives in Canada so it was closer to fly him in! He wrote some nice words about last weekend in the Starfield Blog today… check it outhere
Ok gotta go sleep so I’ll be up in time tomorrow…
Question for you this weekend -
“If you could take two books to a desert island (apart from the Bible!) what would they be and why?”
How is your week going? I can’t believe it’s Thursday already… the weekend is almost here. Seems like I just stepped off the plane from Canada, and its almost time to hit the road again this weekend. Saturday I’m playing in Chattanooga, TN. It’s called “J-Fest” so come out if you live nearby!
Since getting home from Canada I’ve been spending a lot of time working on my pedal board and getting some new stuff from my mate Adam at Guitar Center to improve it… Its been an “I love music gear!” kind of week!
I love finding out what equipment other people are using and loving… Here are a few (bad!) photos of the things I’ve been loving using recently….
Yesterday you got to meet my friend Biscuet from China through his videos… Today you get to meet another friend who’s blog you should consider reading – Mr Daley Hake, who is a killer guitar player….so talking about gear here, it’s only right to give him a shout out as I’ve heard recordings of him playing and his tones are brilliant – I want to sound as good as him when I grow up!! Yesterday he posted about his guitar rig on his blog, so go check it out here to see his set up….
And this is him…(just so you can see his rock ‘n roll hair…just kidding!) so you can find out about his long hours in the studio working on his new band “Telegram” and also his passion for Uganda and missions…
I’ve asked you guys this question before, but it’s a fun one to ask regularly…
“Does anyone have any new recommendations on music gear?”
Anyone out there found any new cool pedals, or amp settings, or keyboard sounds lately? I am going to try out some Nord keyboards tomorrow so see what the sounds are like… and also trying out a few alternatives to the Fullton Fulldrive 2 to see if any other pedals give a warmer clean sound… My friend Leeland Mooring from the band “Leeland” said I should buy the “Klon Centaur” so I’ll try it out.. its a boutique boost pedal…. I used his the other day and it sounded great!
Hows your week going? Thanks for all the good feedback about the videos I posted.. my iMovie skills will continue to develop and grow, and I’m excited to document more ‘life on the road’ footage!
Today was an exciting day – it might not mean much to anyone except fellow tech-geeks out there (!!) but today my Blog was re-installed to http://vickybeeching.com rather than http://vickybeeching.com/blog/wordpress. Hooray!
If you wouldn’t mind, if you link to me on your Blogroll or website, please erase any old links like http://vickybeeching.com/blog/wordpress or http://vickybeeching.typepad.com and make the link exactly this…
http://vickybeeching.com
Thanks so much! it makes a real difference in enabling people to find my site, and for stats and ratings etc… Muchas Gracias!!
Ok, so I know I’ve thanked him before but you need to know that the guy who designed my new site also worked hard today from across the globe in China, to re-install it to the new address. His name is BIscuet (just a nickname – his real name is Jonathan…he said he mispelled “biscuit” in a spelling bee when he was a kid…mispelling it as “biscuet” so the nickname has stuck ever since!)
You can get to know him a bit in the 2 videos above… Check out his site too: http://www.biscuet.comThankyou SO much Biscuet for all your help with this site! Thank you also to A J Rhodes, who works in the IT department at my record label EMI. AJ, we couldn’t have done this site without you!
Well, I’ve had a great week..was just downloading photos from my camera and thought I’d share a few with you from my recent adventures:
Buffalo, NY
My re-built pedal board…
YC Alberta, Canada…
YC Canada…
This weekend, I’m headed to a festival called “J-Fest” in Chattanooga… should be a great time. I was on iChat with my friend Steve Fee earlier, and he said his band Fee will be playing there too… So is Matthew West and a bunch of others. Looking forward to using my newly set up pedal board there and having a good time!
Ok… gotta go write some more songs!
Question for you – Earlier I was chatting with new friend Daley (check out his blog @http://www.daleyhake.com/blog) We both agreed we are total geeks! So“Are you a self-confessed Geek?”I totally am… guitar pedals, amps, Mac laptop, iPhone, Twitter, Blogging… loving learning iMovie and learning all about Web Hosting and WordPress… “Are you?” If so, tell me about it!
