Am I just lucky?

[Mike Honey]

I call myself a professional guitarist because its what i do for a living. I play here in France in a sixties duo and also do a cabaret act where I play shadows hits to my self-made backing tracks. I play an American Standard Strat though a Fender FM212r (the cheapest Fender 100 watt amp there is) , a Behringer echo pedal and a Boss chorus pedal. I would never dream of playing in front of purist Shadows fans but the people i entertain seem to like it! I had a comment the other night 'oh merci, you sound just like Hank'' ( which i clearly dont). It goes to show that you can fool some of the people,,, all of the time.... etc etc!! Maybe one day I will be able to buy a Vox amp, a Meazzi echo etc but will i get more gigs? Dunno!!

mike

[Bluesnote]

Its music no matter what or how you play thats important. Its still Shadows music irrespective of whether its identical or not.
I got a Behringer delay pedal here in Canada a few weeks ago for the equivelent of 25 quid and mixing it with the Valvetronic 15w's own delay,(someone here posted a youtube link on how to mix two delay units) I can get a pretty good Shads echo on the cheap.
I'm not one of the purists, I'm more of a 'play it the way I like it' type of player, as long as it sounds ok to my ears.
I used to copy Shad music note for note in my early years but now I play it the way I hear it.
As for the audience appreciation thing....When I played in the band in the eighties, playing at a wedding for instance, the band would play something really good musically and get no response from the punters, then we'd play something really garbage like a c&w or the like and they'd go crazy I never could figure that one out. I guess the vast majority of people have simple tastes, who knows.
I'd like to try that going out with backing tracks and doing my own thing, but I dont know that it'd do too well in the Glasgow area.
Might get a Glasgow kiss for my troubles
Thats a head butt to the people in here thats never experienced such a pleasure

[dave robinson]

Its music no matter what or how you play thats important. Its still Shadows music irrespective of whether its identical or not.
I got a Behringer delay pedal here in Canada a few weeks ago for the equivelent of 25 quid and mixing it with the Valvetronic 15w's own delay,(someone here posted a youtube link on how to mix two delay units) I can get a pretty good Shads echo on the cheap.
I'm not one of the purists, I'm more of a 'play it the way I like it' type of player, as long as it sounds ok to my ears.
I used to copy Shad music note for note in my early years but now I play it the way I hear it.
As for the audience appreciation thing....When I played in the band in the eighties, playing at a wedding for instance, the band would play something really good musically and get no response from the punters, then we'd play something really garbage like a c&w or the like and they'd go crazy I never could figure that one out. I guess the vast majority of people have simple tastes, who knows.
I'd like to try that going out with backing tracks and doing my own thing, but I dont know that it'd do too well in the Glasgow area.
Might get a Glasgow kiss for my troubles
Thats a head butt to the people in here thats never experienced such a pleasure

So are you in Canada or Glasgow Hugh?

[Bluesnote]

Canada on extended holiday at the moment but back at the end of the month, snow and volcanoes permitting

[Didier]

Maybe one day I will be able to buy a Vox amp, a Meazzi echo etc but will i get more gigs?

mike

Hi Mike,

Probably not in the Dordogne region !

Didier