gypsy hill reunion
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Electric Shadow
Aug 06, 2005
Just Listened to Tab backer" Nice track, killer groove. You guys are good and tight.
Jerry
Electric Shadow
Aug 03, 2005
After" good cover on the pilots, great foe a live mix. Put it on my station.
Jerry
orplid blues band
Jul 31, 2005
Hi,
Just hearing "Before" and "After.." excellent live played. You have a strong rocking groove again. It comes from your very powerful kind of playing (great rythm section) and the right voice for this rock blues.
Greetings from ORPLID
HEADSTONE
Jul 01, 2005
Found some good blues of yours today on the latest upload chart. Keep it up!
orplid blues band
May 15, 2005
Hi,
like to say that "Dead Ringer" has a phantastic groove. Like your guitar playing very much. Excellent work again.
Great, great !!
Greetings from ORPLID
Swampman
Apr 24, 2005
Dropping in for some jams cuz
HEADSTONE
Apr 14, 2005
You got some great tracks!
keep your head stoned
deadkel
Apr 04, 2005
Thanks for the upbeat responses! We sure enjoyed recording this stuff, can't wait until we're all able to do it again.
davidord
Apr 04, 2005
listened to some of your live tracks - great "feel" - it's not that easy to be loose without being sloppy but you guys can do it!
orplid blues band
Mar 23, 2005
Hi,
just hearing "How many more years". Great rythm, it come to me like a strong wave. The blues guitar and the singing voice - thats great together. Keep on.
Greetings from ORPLID
cpokay
Mar 23, 2005
I finished uploading some tunes from the Chapel jam this morning, some of my favorite moments - Hope you enjoy the heck out of these, they are very special, recorded live. Tracks are still raw, unprocessed, unmastered, not redbook CD format yet, but still very sweet stuff, IMHO.
cpokay
Feb 28, 2005
Well, we did it! Staunton was everything we hoped for, Dennis arrived Thursday morning, we got the computer setup and jammed a little, arrived in Staunton on Friday evening and got the soundcheck done -- great little soundcheck jam got recorded. Arrived at the Chapel on Saturday morning about 9:30, and played all day til 10:00pm, recorded good 24-bit tracks on all 14 original tunes. Whew - we're exhausted but had so much fun!! We'll be working for the next couple of months on mixing the results down, I expect, but we each took a .mp3 disk with us for posterity. I think y'all will like the results . . . more later! Peace
cpokay
Feb 22, 2005
Dennis arrives from out West on Thursday morning early, and we head on up to Staunton for our recording gig - Can't wait!! We've been working out some rippin rhythm guitar accompaniment to the main rhythm lines that Kelly and I worked on together, and I've been adding chord charts to the lyric sheets that Kelly prepared for our use while recording -- Hopefully that will help us prepare these things on the fly. Will post more later!!!
Jam night in three days and counting . . . Can't wait to rock the Chapel :^)
Chris
cpokay
Feb 13, 2005
Kelly and I just completed preliminary recordings of six new tunes, with full lyrics and arrangement on all but one tune, in preparation for our recording session at the end of February. Brooks joined in as percussionist on one tune we're calling (for now) Brooks' Music Box, because he pulled all the instruments out of his music box, and was shaking maracas and flapping his clapper, and all that jazz - funfunfun! Kelly and I are really excited about the way the writing has gone to date, and we can see the progress from song #1 (In My Baby's Arms) to song # 14 -- we have more than a couple of winners in there, I think. Anyway, since I was notified of being laid off from my job of four years YESTERDAY, I will beginning my job search in earnest now; other than the February jam session in Staunton (where we will be joined not just by banjo/keyboardist, but also a hellfire mandolin player, music will have to take a little more of a back seat for now. Will add more soon!! Chris<
cpokay
Feb 09, 2005
Got the word from Kelly over the last two days on a coupla things -- the February 25-27 recordings sessions are ON, we will be joined by a keyboardist/banjo player, and it looks like the recording space we were hoping would be open for us in fact will be open for us! Jack and Hector indicated they are up for it, and Dennis and I are completely geeked about it. The 24-bit digital computer recording gear is on its way to me as we speak, so we'll be getting a sweet recording of the get-together. More later! Chris
cpokay
Feb 03, 2005
P.S. -- I welcome your comments on our music, our band, notes from friends, etc. I have a few more songs to post for now, will get around to that before too long! Chris
cpokay
Jan 31, 2005
After a long and hectic weekend, I have a couple minutes to post this message and update. More updates from our Northern Virginia road trip. Kelly and I dropped by the Chapel last weekend on our way back into town, and viewed the space where we're hoping to record our album. We came by on Sunday afternoon, and my impressions of the place are that it is sacred and holy, and the Good Work is going on there. We met the volunteer chaplain, and he was very excited to show us the space, and very proud of the upgrades to the equipment there. This man volunteers his time to provide services to the Center residents, and I am very respectful of that, so rare, I think today, for one to give selflessly of themselves like that for something they believe in so strongly. Hoping that we get the chance to play there and to honor the place, perhaps even perform some of our material for the residents. Kelly and I have worked so hard this past year to write our songs, so much love and so much of ou
cpokay
Jan 24, 2005
P.S. more notes from the weekend -- Abby and Brooks and I visited Gypsy Hill on friday night just to see it with a fresh coat of snow -- beautiful!
Kelly and I saw this horrific accident on I-81 headed south on our way back from Northern Virginia -- I was driving along about 70 mph when I saw some debris flying across the road about 500 yards ahead -- Being an experience adult driver, I knew enough to start getting on the brakes and started to slow, not knowing WTF(!) was going on -- Turned out these were big chunks (3-4 feet long) of 6"x6" landscape timbers that had been holding a guardrail on the left side of the NORTHBOUND lanes of I-81, and that a car had just plowed into the guardrail from some (to me) unknown cause. When this dude hit the guardrail, going probably 80 mph (what most people drive on I-81), he knocked these guardrail posts about the length of a footbal field, all the way across a culvert, across all the southbound lanes, and onto the right shoulder of MY road.
cpokay
Jan 24, 2005
Welcome to the Gypsy Hill Reunion pages!
Just a quick update on our happenings:
1. I did a stupid thing and erased all our messages this morning -- I was tired, OK? Oh well. I'll try to recreate my other welcome messages as best I can.
2. We had a great trip to Northern Virginia over the weekend, Kelly Miller, Jack Ryan, Hector Guiterrez and I met up in the middle of a blizzard, and played together for the first time in nearly ten years . . . we had a raucous and fun time, we rocked the room for sure, until the Kerosene heater went out, then the elctric heaters blew the circuit breaker, leaving us in the dark, and the cold to pack up our equipment and head on out to dinner at Copelands (good eats). We recorded 6 of our new songs that Kelly and I have been writing, and they sounded great. More later . . .
loved the keyboard sound on rt 66 jam, and nice mellow laid back feel. --stockwrock