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Late last year during the album-listening livestream show for my latest album "The Room in the Tower", I also shared a look at the multitrack files, just to show some of the fun or "interesting"...

Hello,
Tomorrow (Saturday 17th Feb) I'll be playing my more-or-less monthly live solo show from my studio, this time using several guitars, each with a different tuning, performing songs from my...

Thanks, and good question! The song and the story's only similarity is the title. I had indeed been reading much Benson around that time, and the room in which I was photographed for the album cover...

Hey Frank and James: I still have the multitracks and would do it again for you guys (and anyone else interested) if you can come up with a time/day when you can both be there. It will be even better...

I did record that segment of the livestream, but watching it later realized a lot of what I was saying made no sense unless one were to also see the chat window, as I was often replying to or...

I figured that has been manifestly obvious to even the most casual observer for many decades now!
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oops sorry I can't remember how to embed a Bandcamp track, but I propose this one:
https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/track/shaping-the-river

xx
BD
www.bdrak.com

OK fun! I can contribute to this one! Is it in poor taste to bring up one's own playing? If you feel so, stop reading now :lol

I've done a lot of fuzz-ey bass over the decades and maybe it wasn't...

Interesting! I wonder if it's because more artists no longer feel the self-imposed obligation to fill up, on every album, by any means posisble, every available minute on a physical CD anymore?...

Some of you fully-initiated Cardiacs listeners might like to know:
I listened to the whole "Guns" album today for the first time, pretty fabulous as YOU all know already. I'd heard "Jitterbug...

Here's my latest, released yesterday:

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Hello,
On Saturday, 9th December, I'll do a listening party livestream for my new solo album "The Room in the Tower". I'll play each track, we can chat about this and that, then I'll show some fun...

Say, have I got a song for you people on my next album! :lol
There's a song where I recorded the acoustic guitar next to a babbling brook with small waterfall, using a very sensitive stereo mic,...

The venue is DS17:
Louterbloemenstraat 17, Dordrecht

The organizer wants to find a venue nearer the centre, but until further notice it will be at DS17.
Hope to see you there!
Bob

I will continue the -80% sale for another week, because it's working :) ALSO because I realized there was one release called "Random Items" which is always free, so it wasn't being automatically...

I had already finished my solo versions but didn't let the rest of the guys hear them until the album came out, because I didn't want them to be influenced by my bass or drum parts. The thing Dave...

We have been achin' to play together again for a long time. We did a few songs as a duo at a gig in Basel, in October 2019, which reminded us of how well we work together. Then the pandemic came, and...

Hi James,
It's a trio playing my songs. We are doing some gigs in Switzerland, Germany and Holland, the schedule is on my website www.bdrak.com
No plans for recording, we just want to have some...

Hi Frank, since you mentioned liking that song, have you seen the version I did in June 2021? It's here:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/9323214/video/565939940

Note nothing is mimed, it's all...

Hi Frank, thanks for bringing this up here! I wanted to add that there is one release called "Random Items" which isn't included in the "Buy Entire Discography", I only now just noticed! It's because...

Starting now, Tuesday 22nd of August until next Tuesday the 29th, I've made my entire solo discography at Bandcamp available at 80% discount, so it's 17.80 Euros for all 23 individual releases, which...

The current venue info in my possession at the moment:

19/09 Zurich (CH): CANCELLED

20/09 Basel (CH): Schall & Rauch. (Which translates to "Sound & Smoke", but no worries - there's no smoking...

Ah yes you're right, that's what I was thinking of.

Bob

No still waiting for that info. There were a couple possibilities the organiser has to choose from. Once I have it I'll update the poster, and post the details here and on my website.
BD

Of course I know who you are :)
Yeah the section of side 1 with 'Half-Asleep, Half-Awake' and 'Ruins' is some of my fave stuff. The organ solo in Ruins is classic.

BD
www.bdrak.com

Ooh dear, I don't remember that detail. I know bought Hopes and Fears in 1978 at the biggest mega-record store in Denver, whose name I also don't recall, as it was the only record store I knew 'cause...

Me too! Also Desperate Straights which I first heard in 1978, and had no idea at the time who Slapp Happy were. That same year (1978) I had just moved to Denver, and a friend wrote to me and said...

Hi Michael, Egads! Holy smokes! It was 2008, and that particular combo - me, Kerman, Dave Campbell on bass and Jason DuMars on sax/keyboards/chemistry experiments - did the one tour and that was...

Since we're talking about our "faves", I like 'em all but my fave is Unrest. I bought it in 1974 at the "The Shoppe", which was a hip record store in Kankakee Illinois who had an "import" section....

Someone will almost certainly make a video or two somewhere along the way, if so I'll mention it in this thread and on my website.
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BD

Excellent! See you then.
BD

I would not count on that :)

Bob

Thanks! I've done probably 100 or more solo gigs between 2016-2020 (guess which month they stopped) :) mostly in the UK, and dozens of solo livestreams which are a blast, but really miss playing as...

If the wind is blowing the right direction, and we leave a window open at the venue, maybe you'll be able to hear it?
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Is mid-September too far away to post it yet? Oh well, we're excited! Here are the towns where our rockin' little trio will be performing, playing songs from my various albums and some brand-new ones...

Hi Czyszy,
When it's a human hitting them, I like all kinds of drum sounds, from the dead and muffled to rattly and ringy! I love the variety of sounds possible and how they fit the different...

Hi Mike, Interview is one of my fave albums, so I really enjoyed the interview about it, and your observations as a musician, fan and long-time listener, for instance when the band didn't even...

Hi Kimara,
I like the idea of the recorded version of a song being like “a very good sketch”, where one takes some time to get things fairly neat and clear, while in the live performances, one is...

A few extracts here:


https://youtu.be/x4CmgUdEeO4


That's the last of the livestreams until probably Autumn. I love doing them but they do take a great deal of (very enjoyable) time and...

Hi, I'll do one of my solo shows this Saturday, 6th May. It will be the last one for a while as I plan to devote some time to recording the first batch of songs for my next album. so if you want a...

It was, the usual gang of a dozen or so turned up. I posted one song from it here, "Black Sulphur Spring", because it's got a nice cymbal and hammer solo:


https://youtu.be/Pp-7MaeVgHQ

Next...

What I liked best about his playing are his melodic bits, such as the guitar melodies in Close to the Edge, To Be Over, the snakey melodies on The Ancient. Etc etc. I also appreciated the country and...

This Saturday and Sunday (18th-19th) I'll be doing livestream solo shows, so if you're looking for some entertainment for an hour or so on either of those days, why not tune in. You can always tune...

Oops I forgot to add that one, and we were just talking about the title track!

BD

Surely you jest my friend. I wouldn't have bought a bass guitar back in 1972 had I not heard Fragile and The Yes Album!



My highest practical range is about Jon's lowest! But yeah he was one of...

I recall an interview where Anderson said of that song (or maybe the whole album) the vocals were in such a high range it sounded like he was on helium!

BD
www.bdrak.com

The lead vocal on that track is astonishingly good too. Really strong and cuts right through all the noisy stuff going on.

BD
www.bdrak.com

I was freinds with Kavus for a few years before I heard any Cardiacs-related stuff. When we did the live recording for my Bob's Drive-In album in May 2011, he gave me some CDRs he figured I ought to...

I was doing my daily vocal exercises and reading PE, that "Blop Polayy" cover came up, and I burst out laughing so hard, I am afraid to look at it again lest I hurt myself laughing. Man I'll never...

It's commissioned by the Museum of Contemprary Art of Barcelona, I'm sure there's some reason it's only available there. I'll ask Chris.

Bob
https.bdrak.com

It's fantastic, and has been quite an education for me in many ways. I have to say it's worth starting at the beginning, because it's a continuing story, and once we got going and started having more...

I put a few extracts from the shows here: https://youtu.be/oEgqiSKuncQ
And the new Band of Bob videos here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10029978

x
BD

[QUOTE=rael74;1157227]Drama's OK I guess, but it's a shame there's no Clowns, Lions, Tigers or Bears...

Clowns, lions and even tigers I can do without, but NO BEARS, NO YES!
I never had this...

Hi,
If you're looking for an hour or so of amusement this Saturday and Sunday, I'll be doing a livestream, including a live solo set, then showing some new Band of Bob videos, from one of which...

I'd always read reports that it was a "shambles", "disaster" and so on, but just listened for the first time while tidying up my studio, and thought it was really good. But then I also know it so...

Thank you Geoff!

My new one is out now, CDs from rermegacorp.com, and download version on my Bandcamp page:

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Hello,
Can someone tell me how? Thank you!

Bob

Glad you are liking it! I only learned about the gap problem myself when I was getting ready to release the album and read Bandcamp's help section about gapless playback. The other problem about mp3,...

I'm not involved in the distribution side of things so can't definitely say who will have it, but in general it should eventually be available from the usual distributors of ReR CDs. You'd have to...