Live tonight at The Gunnersbury in Chiswick

The Jetsonics will be opening tonight at The Gunnersbury in Chiswick. Followed by Bang2Rights who will be providing quality entertainment for the rest of the evening.

 

Are you ready, Dave? Ad? Sam? Alright fellas. Let's go!

The Flyers Have Landed

We have the flyers for the upcoming gigs in hand. They look pretty cool. Hopefully get the poster size ones up in the venues and the A5 ones to the lucky few who will no doubt get them signed and sell them on eBay for huge sums. Probably.

Custom Skin

Dave will be pleased. Artwork for the new Jetsonics drum head from customskins.co.uk has been approved. Next for monogrammed shirts and matching suits.

Dave's new kit

I tell you! It's tasty. It has bigger rack toms. Bigger floor tom. It's a tasty ruby red wine colour over a nice grained wood. Looks fantastic. Sounds big. We had to turn up the guitars to match him and luckily there was a loud PA for the vocals in the room.

 

We also had guests last night. It's nice to have guests sometimes. It takes us to a place half way between practice and performance and we give that little bit more than we would if we were playing for ourselves. One of the guests took some photos that we hope to see soon. Great that he brought his camera - seeing as he is a top rock photog who has shot Oasis, The Smiths and U2 to name three. Now he can happily tick The Jetsonics off his hit list. Everyone's happy :-)

 

Dub rock song sounds better every time and even sweeter with a big dose of reverb in the breakdown and DAVE'S MEGADRUMS (tm) in the intro.

3rd March at The Grey Horse in Kingston

Looking forward to the Grey Horse on 3rd March. Dave's also looking forward to putting his new drum kit together. We'll hopefully see that this coming Monday. Ad has a new Big Bass Muff pedal which sounds incredibly gruff and suits a couple of the songs well. Last week we practiced the new Dub Rock track we have been working on, we're pretty sure it's all there now. We'll play it on the 3rd. Sounds excellent. My bid to re-write Kenny's 'The Bump' for the 21st century was vetoed by the rest of the band! I'm going to re-string my Tele, probably for the first time since 2008.

 

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First practice in a while

Was a good practice last night. We waltzed through some oldies from the back catalogue which still sounded good and fresh. Then we pushed ourselves into new territory coming up with an excellent new song. It sounded genuinely powerful, serious even. Dub rock of sorts. We'll play it at the next gig. Ad also came up with a jaunty slash disco number that we'll massage into shape next practice. Exciting times for The Jetsonics.

Last (practice before) Christmas

Last night was a relaxed affair. We pootled through a few of the back catalogue. Played for fun and had a good pre-Christmas slow down. Ate mince pies. Still we managed to kick off an as-yet-untitled new song that should be good once it has some words, structure and some of that other good stuff you need to make a song.

 

I took along the Tele. First time I've played it in a couple of years and it felt good. Still need to tweak the sound a bit, but it has a nice homely feel which makes playing easy. For some reason (could be the Mother of Pearl scratchplate and knobs) I can't help but want to chickenpick and country lick it all the time :-)

 

Mmmnmnrrgaarrggh...Chickenpickincountrylickin'.