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20/5/2005
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More Damp Patch
I'm
being sucked in to Damp Patch, and I'm very glad of it. They and
my Mum seem to be the only people who don't mind about the blog and the
blog is pretty important to me. But the strange thing is that
Damp Patch now assume I'm in the band on a permanent basis and I'm not
complaining because it gives me an outlet.
With Jon back in
the band, we were short of an amp for the bass, so, with Jon and Jez
holding my hand, I went and blew nearly 200 quid on a second-hand 100
watt bass amplifier with 4 10 inch speakers, but I'm keeping my old 25W
amp for practice at home. And a mere 60 pounds on eBay for a Squier
Bass Guitar of my very own. With this, I should be able to blast
everyone else off the stage, should I care to! Anyway, it's only
money, and they'll resell for not much less if I give it all up.
Jez remembered that I used to sing Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody"
, and Benedict thought it'd be a good one to give him a
rest in the middle of a set, so off we went at this last rehearsal. And
of course it's got a great bass line. Andy played the keyboard part
much better than we used to at school, and it really went very well. I
was totally done in by the time we'd done it five times, mostly because
Hambone couldn't get the beat right - it's sort of a hiccupy beat and
the song doesn't work with a straight thump, thump.
All this
retro rock sounds like it's for Mum and Dad, but I think we do it in a
distinctive way that's not trying to copy the original - we're just
using tried and tested songs and playing them our way. I think some
bands these days who are quite good really fall down because they are
crap at song writing or they've got some anarchy message they're trying
to plug through the lyrics. The gig in Sheffield was full of that kind
of stuff.
So, anyway, a string of gigs lined up over the next
few weeks at London places (including one at Underworld in Camden - v.
upmarket), I'm really getting into this.
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