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Here’s poverty for you. Spending 4 days in Norway playing at the Nottoden Blues Festival. Magnus was so cool to lend out his house to the band. So I guess this is rock’n roll heaven. Heck he even got a rehearsal room. No keyboards or pump-organs here so I got to do a little filming. Note the Mommy-cat and the two little kittens in the middle.

Last Saturdays festivalpics are online (bospop) . It seems they posted them in order of importance.

You see, the rough photo lineup is: Steve Lukather, Crowded House, Snowy White… and the very last photo is…..Schnauzer!

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Aiff at Rainbowpark Dordrecht June 15th 2008.

Yes, I do play this thing live occasionally! Very funny to have a soundcrew drooling around a 50euro organ.

More about AIFF here

My new years resolution is becoming true now. I bought this 1963 Hammond organ in January this year . And it took sjaak up until yesterday to finish it. So it was transformed from this lovely sweet lady:

into this beast:

The organ comes in two cases now. One for the tone-generator, and one with the keyboards and amplifier. All the contacts, soldering contacts, wires, -you name it- are brand new. The inside looks shiny, as if I walked into a music store in 1963 and bought this thing off the shelf.
Speakon connections on the back to hook it up to 2 leslie cabinets. All the keys have been painstakingly modified, felt and action has changed.
I’ve been playing it for 10 minutes and I played some lines that I normally never could do. (I swear this is true) The very first chord gave me goosebumps.

Of all the organs I played in my life, this has to be my nr. 1, and the good part of the story is: it is mine!

To clarify this story: this feels like playing a 50$ guitar for 20 years and suddenly you have a Gibson es335 1963 in your hands.

Now comes the funny part: I’ll be having an incredibly busy weekend, doing gigs all over, but I’m not allowed to bring a Hammond organ to those concerts: ‘Rob, we really need a philicorda sound this Sunday’ I couldn’t make this up.

2 occasions in one week, goodie goodie! It’s been 5 years since wordpress came on the interwebs… To me the best thing that happened to the bloggosphere ever. But what do I know?
The other occasion is very near and coming this sunday.

In the meantime gaze your eyes over this record…

Did a gig on a legendary small stage last weekend. Sebastiaan aka ‘Mashupman’ came to see the show and recorded this with his mobile.

EXTRALIFE TUNE

Up to my neck in live-gigs atm.

This weekend I’m off to London to rehearse and do a show on the 5th. All signs are directed to the fact that it’ll be an underorganized mess. While thinking to go or not, I figured: I am going to digg up some great stories there. This is exactly why people go on a holiday, to live the life and come home with a story or 2. Little did I know that the beginning of this writing would start tonight… I know I am being a little cryptic now, but I really need to take some pictures to make the post even better. Let’s just say that not every festival-organization knows what they are doing.
And to think that I’m playing that same festival twice… ouch!

check around tuesday for photo’s and stuff, better start laughin’ (or crying, you choose)

I’ve wrote a while ago about this musical. Gordasm walked around Toronto and spotted these posters. Here is his full flickr-set.

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I’m moving this blog to a different hosting-service.
The main reason I held back the original posts for the last couple of weeks, is that I was really annoyed by the permalinks in this blog (www.robgeboers.nl/schnauzer/etc…. )
Within a couple of weeks normality will be restored, and this blog will have it’s own hosting.

During that period this blog is only reachable throught www.robgeboers.nl/schnauzer

So rss feeds will continue to work for a while.