Guitar Pics

I'm going to be updating the GEAR SECTION pretty soon...

I spent Sunday taking pics of my guitars so for now here are a few pics of my babies,

Mostly my collection of LAG Roxanes but a few others as well.

Solos for SOBER DAVE AND THE SNOWMEN

Just been recording some solos for the SOBER DAVE AND THE SNOWMEN christmas sillyness.

All went pretty well I think, but waiting to hear back from Mr Sober about how well it all meshes together.

You can here me playing the solos on "Fairytale of New York"

DOWNLOAD IT ALL FOR FREE HERE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm quite looking forward to hearing how it all comes out now, and I think I need to sort out a better "Home Studio" than cluttering up the spare bedroom sittling around with a PODxt and headphones plugged in to my lap top. I'm going to have to start building  decent home set up to play about with...

It was nice to get out the Cherry Burst LAG RF1000. Last time I played it live, PISTOL KIXX broke up on stage, but this time it was a bit less stressful.

I must finally pay for REAPER, it's all working so well and so easily, I actually feel guilty every time I press "Still Evaluating."

Another Roxane....

My addiction to obscure French made guitars continues...

Thanks to my good friend MAX who finally buckled and sold me his beautiful LAG ROXANNE VINTAGE.

It's 10 years old and has the old two "N" spelling.

French made LAG number 5 for my collection!

I'd seen his pics of it maybe a year ago and I've been nagging him to let me have it since.

I guess it finally got a bit much and the deal was done!

A guitar shaped parcel arrived for me at work a few days ago, and I'm still full of new guitar joy!

I think that's going to be it guitar purchase wise or a while, but I have enough of a guitar-harem to not be too bothered if I have to gig the same ones for a while.

Here she is!

Live at THE WHITE SWAN 24/04/10 and Dickie gets a new tattoo

We just had a gig at THE WHITE SWAN in Aylesbury. It was an unusual show. We had booked it before Hazel joined the band and it turned out that she was having to jet off, well car and ferry off to Belgium because of work on the day of the gig.

It was only a small pub gig so rather than cancel, I stepped in to sing for one show. I was a bit unsure about it, but I thought fuck it, give it a go. I had been singing at rehearsals while we were looking for a singer, so I knew I could "sing" but doing it live while playing the guitar was another thing!

In the end it was OK I guess, I really had fun doing it and it was in tune, but not  a great vocal performance. I guess my rhythm playing suffered quite a bit. I think I rely on seeing the guitar neck a bit too much and looking at the video, I can see that I need to work on making sure that I my mouth is pointing at the mic when I shout in it!  An interesting learning experience, but I'll be very glad to have hazel back where she belongs for the next one.

So so vocals aside it was a great night with excellent performances from THE INFAMOUS and FOREVER VENDETTA.

It was also my second gig with my JET CITY AMPLIFICATION JCA20H and I used my LAG  ROXANE RF1000 for the first time since I played it at the gig where PISTOL KIXX broke up live on stage!
Here's a quick collection of excerpts from solos so you can here the JCA20H live on a guitar with P-90's

Jet City Amplification, JCA20H. Another live demo

And here are 2 tracks from the gig:

HERE AGAIN By THE SOHO COBRAS (Rob Silver filling in on vocals)

BLACK HEART By THE SOHO COBRAS (Rob Silver filling in on vocals)

In other news, Dickie got "I *HEART* Colin Vipurs" tattooed on his arse for a bet... well he says it was a bet, but there's no smoke without fire if you ask me...

Who would have thought Dickie had a thing for drummers.

This is a lesson to anyone who get's drunk around tattoo equipment! 

DON'T DO IT

See you all at AQUANET on May 8th!

THE SOHO COBRAS official debut show bootleg...FREE MP3 OF THE WHOLE SHOW

Not a lot else to say.

I'm still very pleased with how the show went, I just posted links to video for the whole night, but here's your chance to steal the whole thing as MP3s...

It's nothing very spectacular, just the audio from the MP3's has been ripped off and placed on my reverbnation.com player for a  few weeks

You can either download them form the reverbnation media player at the side of this blog (if you can't see that, you may be reading it somewhere else so go to: http://rob-silver.blogspot.com/ and the media player will be down the right hand side of your screen)

What ever the main article is check down the  right hand side for downloadable MP3s.

Or you can click on the link HERE and listen to or download the whole thing :-)

all in all a great night :-)

Here's a few random live shots from what I've found so far...

My Babies...

We've had a few weeks off rehearsal and gigging while everyone has been on holiday and going to festivals, so nothing has really been going on. I'm getting a bit tetchy now and I'm looking forward to rehearsing and playing live again after the "summer break."

What I have been doing though is taking pics of my lovely guitars.

So for your viewing pleasure here is my lovely LAG Roxane collection:

This one is an early 20oo's Roxane Classic. In a natural finish. All stock except for chrome himbucker surrounds.


This one is a Roxane RS1000 in tobacco burst. Again all stock except for chrome humbucker surrounds.

This one is a Roxane RF1000 in Cherry Sunburst. Lovely maple top and it's packing Seymour Duncan P-90 pickups. I haven'y gigged this one yet, but I think that will change next month when we support the Gypsy Pistoleros.

Rocking out in Oxford

I've had a pretty cool month. I bought TWO new guitars, a beautiful LAG Roxane Classic in a natural mahogany finish in the pics below and a LAG Roxane RF1000 in Cherry sunburst. Both are amazing French made models. More pics of my new toys will follow.

We also had a really fun gig in Oxford on friday. I guess we played pretty sloppily, but we went down really well and had a fantastic time. Two things really stood out for me, a guy in a wheel chair climbed up a flight of stair with just his arms to see us, and for the first time ever we had literally everyone in the place singing along. I could hear people shouting the chorus to a couple of songs over my half stack! So it's all good.
We also got some cool pics from Johnny Moto a few of which are posted here.
There was also some live video to the last song "Triple-X" which we probably shouldn't have played until we had rehearsed it more, but we had run out of songs for the encore!

Here's the video anyway, you get the end of "FDR" and all of "Triple-X".

Enjoy.