Walter Broes
Enlightened Member
Hey all,
About a month ago, I played a reunion show with my very first band.
It had been a loooong time - we made one record with this band, in 1988, and I was seventeen at the time we recorded it.
The band's name was "the Ratmen", and we played "psychobilly" - for the uninitiated, it's pretty much rockabilly played usually in minor keys, too fast, and too loud, haha.
this is the record : (that's me with the glasses, have contacts now, and a lot less hair!)
I wasn't particularly interested in doing this, but there was a promotor here in town who kept bugging me about it, and he finally "made me an offer I couldn't refuse"...
Myself and the bassplayer are original bandmembers, the original drummer hadn't played in at least ten years, so we replaced him with the drummer in my current band.
In retrospect, I was a little too rusty on the material (and the tempos!!), and should have worked a little harder at, but it was a fun night, and the crowd liked it.
Anyway, there are a couple of clips on youtube now, even if just to show what an old X175 sounds like cranked through two blackface Super Reverbs. :mrgreen:
Here's one clip :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h971Hd-Xd18
and here's another :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HsSgfreAs&feature=related
About a month ago, I played a reunion show with my very first band.
It had been a loooong time - we made one record with this band, in 1988, and I was seventeen at the time we recorded it.
The band's name was "the Ratmen", and we played "psychobilly" - for the uninitiated, it's pretty much rockabilly played usually in minor keys, too fast, and too loud, haha.
this is the record : (that's me with the glasses, have contacts now, and a lot less hair!)
I wasn't particularly interested in doing this, but there was a promotor here in town who kept bugging me about it, and he finally "made me an offer I couldn't refuse"...
Myself and the bassplayer are original bandmembers, the original drummer hadn't played in at least ten years, so we replaced him with the drummer in my current band.
In retrospect, I was a little too rusty on the material (and the tempos!!), and should have worked a little harder at, but it was a fun night, and the crowd liked it.
Anyway, there are a couple of clips on youtube now, even if just to show what an old X175 sounds like cranked through two blackface Super Reverbs. :mrgreen:
Here's one clip :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h971Hd-Xd18
and here's another :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HsSgfreAs&feature=related