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Location: Utica, NY | OK Folks, I'm just putting this out there. Be as brutal as you like....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDfjeUrsEnk&feature=channel_page
This is our duo at a public event last week. Beautiful sunny day, 95* plus, at the bottom of our local skiing facility. A few hundred people, local dignitaries, free food (which is what got the people there), the works.
This video is the first ever taken of us from the front that we actually have. Was taken completely at random by someone who stopped by and was kind enough to shoot it and post it on YouTube. The audio is rough from the camera's limitations but it's OK. And our name is spelled wrong in the title but that's OK too.
The sign out front is a bit of a goof. It's like a 3rd grade art class project, perhaps worse. It was in the trailer from a well-known local 15K road race called the Boilermaker that we played at. It has over 10,000 runners so we thought we should have something saying who we were as they ran past us. We never needed a sign before so we whipped this up in about 10 minutes. It ended up on the ground when we unloaded and along the way some nice folks felt bad for us that it 'fell' and taped it up. I forgot it was there until I saw the video!
While you can't get the whole picture of what we are from a single snippet it's pretty representative of what we are. There's a few mistakes and I botched a few notes but sometimes I hit 'em and sometimes I don't. It was just fun to see it from the other side. FWIW, I am the guy in the red hat on the left.
OK. I've taken cover so............ fire away!
PS: The Kaman family content is my Hamer Special. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Now that's a rip! Your partner can sing too. Great job... 
Love the name!
More vids... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'm impressed. Missing a note here n there lets them know that you ain't air-guitar-syncing. |
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Location: big island | that's hot! even in the shade. |
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| A bit scruffy round the edges and the solos weren't that inventive but lots of potential and vocals could be good if you all did something sometime that was recorded properly. All in all pretty good for what it is - on a hot day for a beer drinking crowd it's just fine. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Great job Herb, wish I had the bells to do something like that. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Nice Nervous!! That Rocked! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Great job! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | nice but hold the goddamn camera still............ |
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Location: Utica, NY | If you thought that was interesting you oughtta see THESE two guys in action.
The sold a whole lotta pies to buy those guitars...
And thank you all for the very kind words. |
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Location: Utica, NY | LOOK OUT! I totally forgot about this self-shot gem from 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFHOPv9a4MU&feature=channel |
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Location: Utica, NY | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
All in all pretty good for what it is - on a hot day for a beer drinking crowd it's just fine. That's certainly our preferred demographic! |
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| Looks like fun - two guys, not a lot of arguments or schedules to juggle.
So tell me about the tracks. Self generated? Purchased? Culled from the original? |
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Location: Utah | Sounds good and looks like everybody had fun. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Nervous,
I don't think you really have anything to be nervous about--if I could play lead even half that well, I'd be thrilled. Thanks for posting it.
(And, I just love the name of your group, especially the spelling.)
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Location: Utica, NY | Originally posted by Losov:
So tell me about the tracks. Self generated? Purchased? Culled from the original? More than 95% of what regularly we use I have created from nothing using an Ensoniq SD-1 sequencer/keyboard. The other odd ones are some tracks the I purchased from a couple midi song companies but honestly, they required so much massaging when I received them that they were not worth the time and I would have been just as well off doing them from scratch as well. Sound selections, arrangements and worst of all, maps that didn't match all requiring a whole lot of tweaking.
Our current situation is one of obsolescence. Not just the two of us aging but the keyboard is long out of production, uses DD 3.5" floppies for storage and has a proprietary sequencing OS that is not immediately compatible with general midi so I am completely in the dark about how to convert what I all ready have forward to a more modern format with the ability to use current equipment. I am thankful that the SD-1 is such a workhorse but nothing lasts forever. If it dies, so does the whole show until I could either get a replacement. I'd love to find someone knowledgeable enough to talk me through upgrading my sequences but so far no luck. I hear that there is a conversion program out there from Giebler but I have not yet pursued that.
But the sounds in the SD-1 are stellar and the creation of all the sequences is some of my prouder work. I have hundreds of hours into them, every note and part played, every eventual arrangement all from nothing. And some are very involved. No one in our area was doing anything like this to this level when we first started 15 years ago. Now I see guys with laptops and purchased tracks and they sound OK but to my ear still not a 'big' as what we are using. |
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Location: Utica, NY | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1:
(And, I just love the name of your group, especially the spelling.)--Karen Thanks very much. It's funny that when we chose this name 15 years ago it was a simple play on my nickname, Nervous, which was bestowed upon me some 20 years earlier by my still best friend & Nervous Rex bandmate. We didn't have such ready access to the internet in those dark days s we thought it was pretty unique. However, a simple search today with Google or YouTube puts is in a pretty thick crowd of Nervous Rex's. Oh well, it stays for now. |
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