Greetings! Music from "Das Cheeks" and also a little bit from me, plus a few other bits and pieces you might find entertaining.

Additionally, here is some stuff that might be of use to you:

Bass tab sheet - This is a PDF of a blank B E A D G tab sheet so that you can make notation of groovey stuff that you write.
Guitar tab sheet - This is a PDF with E A D G B E markings, also blank, so that you can make a note of anything inspirational that you write.
Scales - Here is a PDF of some scales. The first page is the scale shapes, relative to major I think. The next section is the scales relative to E, so you should be able to easily learn the shapes, then move them around for the other scales. Don't ask me to explain the theory behind modes...
Schenker - One photo of Schenker at the Mean Fiddler in London the other month. Cool, eh?
Bass amp - Here is a photo of my rig. Excuse the poor angle. The Behringer DSP2024P is actually remarkably good. The tube emulation on it is very convincing, and the reverbs aren't too bad either. The V-AMP is also not bad compared to the overpriced Line 6 POD.
Overview - Here is an overview of the old set up. I have since rearranged all the system. The mixer has been flight-cased away and the speakers rearranged and the microphoned cased up too. All in storage.
Back of rig - Dull shot of the back of my amp. The outputs on the Warwick are a life-saver. The newer range of amps do not have this many ports on it since they are mono and do not have a crossover built into them.
Dismantled - Dismantling my gear with a poser shot of the Fender Jazz. Man, my room was full of junk.
J on drums - J on the drums. A very large blurry shot but look at the lovely colour of the kit!
Rig again - Ah, more shots of my rig. This is one taken at the wedding of Scott and Amy (anyone know their surname?) in Northampton.

The Cheeks in Concert

Finally there are some leaked musical passages and videos of The Cheeks in concert. This is still a work in progress but some of the songs are nearing perfection. The mostly finished (and incredibly sloppy) version of Are You Gunna Be My Girl by Jet is available to watch, as are some other bits and pieces. Enjoy! Please send comments. On most of these, Ant is panned slightly right and Raoul is panned slightly left so you can hear yourselves. Note that we were so sloppy because we don't have a roadie team, nor groupies to encourage us. Also, it was a damn hot day and we were sweating buckets and living on caffeine and Red Bull. Lovely meal as I remember!
These videos should play using most media players but since I encoded them on Fedora Core 4 CCRMA, I haven't had any opportunity (or inclination) to test them on Windows. If they don't work in Windows, try Googling for VLC - this is a decent media player that should play anything that you throw at it. Also, the Windows port of MPlayer should do the trick for you.

Leas 1 - The chaps who sang and played before us are here. I only knew the guitar player's name, which happens to be Leas, hence the link name. I do not know the singer's name. This mix is a bit loud I have noticed - too enthusiastic on the compressor, but you should get the idea. Notice the guitar's boooooooom threatening to make everything feedback. Thank goodness the PA wasn't on the balcony too. 3.3Mb so shouldn't take too long.
Leas 2 - This is the second song they played, the name of which I sadly do not know. This also suffers from excessive volume thanks to the discovery of a limiting compressor to keep the whole mix in the yellow (too loud!) band. 6.5Mb at fairly high bitrate.
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - The Artic Monkey's song. This is a very loud mix so if you open it in a wave editor, you'll notice that it looks like whitenoise. 3.8Mb
Are You Gunna Go My Way? final version - No notch filter because the hats sounded nasal. Also, Ant pans a touch more during his solo and Davo is louder since the last one sounded like he was singing a mile away, down a tunnel. 4.9Mb 192kbps MP3
Sunshine Of Your Love - The good ol' Cream song, replete with fuzzy distorted voice (a touch out at the end there Davo...) and booming bass, of course. Ant's solo is hot! Love it! 5.4Mb 192kbps MP3
Pride and Joy - A Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble track. As Davo says, a bluesy number. I know Raoul isn't happy with his solo so go easy on him. The trippy effects found in the other songs for backing vocals continue in this song. Doesn't J's ride sound nice? 4.5Mb 192kbps MP3
Message In A Bottle - A second version of the song, where the vocals have been turned down a notch and the bass drum shifted up, along with the hi-hats going down a bit. The bass was also put up to deafening level and a bit more chorus applied to Ant. 5.3Mb 192kbps MP3
Back In The USSR - The Beatles' song. Comments? 3.4 Mb 192kbps MP3

More of these should be appearing soon with any luck. Please remember how long this all takes . Honestly!

Edd and the Cwmbrans

Check out these tracks from 07/04/2007 in Risca (or wherever it was)! Also see Jonny's site here for video wizardry.

Rob's drums - Just the drum mix from Jonny B. Goode, with Rob playing. Deserves a mix on his own before he is drowned out by the band :) 5.9Mb 192kbps MP3
Jonny B. Goode - Marko, Jonny, Rob and Edd tear it up. Listen to that fretless wonder! 5.9Mb 192kbps MP3
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Drury anyone? No, these aren't the blockheads - just Edd and The Cwmbrans doing their version. I wsa feeling trippy when mixing this, hence the vocal effects and the sound of Jonny's guitar floating between your ears. Hopefully you can hear Rob enough and Edd, of course. I made sure that there was bass on this. 4.9Mb 192kbps MP3

Edd sings Voodoo Chile

The other month I popped down to listen to an informal jam involving Rob, Edd, Jonny and his uncle. Some interesting stuff played there. Edd invited me up to play for this one but forgive my lack of fretless skills - I don't play a fretless enough at all. Edd' singing in this makes me laugh every time! That was a really good day, funny comedian in the evening and gooooood company too...
Here is the video for your enjoyment, although I had to reduce the size a tad to fit it on here. Also, there isn't masses of bass because the amp was aimed at the other side of the room haha. Many thanks to my camera woman!!! By the way, you may need VLC to play this because Windows Media Player doesn't want to play it. Stupid software!
Some other chap's version of 'Smells like Teen Spirit' was hilarious, not that they tried to be funny....

Please visit again soon!
Rich, 29th June 2007, this year is going really well!
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