It has been about two years since I wrote anything in this blog. I just hate to write...LOL! So...LBoP now has a ReverbNation page (www.reverbernation.com/lbop) which forces me to maintain a blog for completeness. OK, I'm gonna give this a try. Wait a minute...I just remembered a famous wise person saying something like, "Do or do not...there is no try." Alright, fine. Blog, I do!
...sounds good to me! ~ J. Hawk
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
A Little Bit Of Rupert Neve
LBoP recently added to The Arsenal. An axe or amp of some kind you would think? No! It's this bad boy below:
What we have here is the Focusrite ISA One microphone preamplifier, which comes with a sturdy hard case for easy carrying to a recording gig or for storage. The circuitry is based on the Focusrite Forte console designed by the legendary Rupert Neve. The unit has tons of features including switchable mic impedance settings, an independent DI input and a Lundahl transformer at the microphone input. The transformer plays an important role in providing that Rupert Neve mojo. When recording you can never have too much mojo, especially Rupert Neve's. What can I say? This thing sounds fantastic and I'm happy!
...sounds good to me! ~J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
What we have here is the Focusrite ISA One microphone preamplifier, which comes with a sturdy hard case for easy carrying to a recording gig or for storage. The circuitry is based on the Focusrite Forte console designed by the legendary Rupert Neve. The unit has tons of features including switchable mic impedance settings, an independent DI input and a Lundahl transformer at the microphone input. The transformer plays an important role in providing that Rupert Neve mojo. When recording you can never have too much mojo, especially Rupert Neve's. What can I say? This thing sounds fantastic and I'm happy!
...sounds good to me! ~J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Smoking Our Way to Fame: Benson & Hedges
In the immediate aftermath of the San Diego Wildfire Crisis of '07, my thoughts naturally turned to... cough... cough... smoking.
It appears that The Lost Boys of Penzance have added to the lore of Benson & Hedges cigarettes. From the Benson & Hedges entry in Wikipedia is this passage in the Trivia section:
The Lost Boys Of Penzance, a surf band from Encinitas, CA, have recorded "Disadvantages of You", which was the music used for the TV commercial "Oh the disadvantages of the new Benson and Hedges 100s"
I must admit that this is very cool...someone thought to add LBoP's recording of The Disadvantages of You to the lore of a famous brand of ciggies that date back to 1873. The Trivia section also noted these famous rock musos/B&H smokers: Noel and Liam Gallagher (Oasis) and Angus Young (AC-DC).
TVparty.com had this to say about that famous Benson & Hedges TV ad campaign of 1967:
Not surprisingly, manufacturers have always looked for new ways to modify their products and create new brands. A brilliant example would be Benson and Hedges 100s in 1967.
LBoP actually does NOT endorse smoking due to the havoc it wreaks on the body. If one must choose between smoking and music, choose music. Always.
[Update 2010: Some anonymous Wikipedia Nazi deleted the LBoP mention of the "Disadvantages..." track from the Benson & Hedges wiki entry. "No verbiage for you!"]
...sounds good to me! ~J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
It appears that The Lost Boys of Penzance have added to the lore of Benson & Hedges cigarettes. From the Benson & Hedges entry in Wikipedia is this passage in the Trivia section:
The Lost Boys Of Penzance, a surf band from Encinitas, CA, have recorded "Disadvantages of You", which was the music used for the TV commercial "Oh the disadvantages of the new Benson and Hedges 100s"
I must admit that this is very cool...someone thought to add LBoP's recording of The Disadvantages of You to the lore of a famous brand of ciggies that date back to 1873. The Trivia section also noted these famous rock musos/B&H smokers: Noel and Liam Gallagher (Oasis) and Angus Young (AC-DC).
TVparty.com had this to say about that famous Benson & Hedges TV ad campaign of 1967:
Not surprisingly, manufacturers have always looked for new ways to modify their products and create new brands. A brilliant example would be Benson and Hedges 100s in 1967.
This was one of the most celebrated and effective ad campaigns of all time. Benson and Hedges actually built a brand name (and consumer demand) by making fun of their product, illustrating the distinct disadvantages of smoking a longer cigarette.
So there you have it: LBoP adds to the lore of Benson & Hedges and gets mentioned in the same breath as Oasis and AC-DC. OK, that last part might be a bit of a stretch.LBoP actually does NOT endorse smoking due to the havoc it wreaks on the body. If one must choose between smoking and music, choose music. Always.
[Update 2010: Some anonymous Wikipedia Nazi deleted the LBoP mention of the "Disadvantages..." track from the Benson & Hedges wiki entry. "No verbiage for you!"]
...sounds good to me! ~J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
In An Emergency, Which Guitars To Take?
The San Diego wildfire crisis is affecting the LBoP world. My main squeeze and I are on edge today waiting for the word to evacuate the house. The so-called Witch Creek fire is a few miles away threatening our little burg of Encinitas.
So...decisions, decisions: which guitars to take; which to leave behind? The car can only hold so much so some hard choices had to be made. I chose two of my solid-body electrics, my workhorse Fender Strat and Gibson Nighthawk. The MIJ Epi/Gibson 335, Taylor acoustics (810 and Baby) and all the electric basses made the cut as well. Rounding out the music gear that got packed: a few select small guitar amps and stompboxes. A lot of other instruments and gear will have to be left behind. Aarrgh!
Yes, I was terribly inconvenienced, but the alternative is worse. The goal is to live another day to make some music. That's the bottom line.
~ J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
So...decisions, decisions: which guitars to take; which to leave behind? The car can only hold so much so some hard choices had to be made. I chose two of my solid-body electrics, my workhorse Fender Strat and Gibson Nighthawk. The MIJ Epi/Gibson 335, Taylor acoustics (810 and Baby) and all the electric basses made the cut as well. Rounding out the music gear that got packed: a few select small guitar amps and stompboxes. A lot of other instruments and gear will have to be left behind. Aarrgh!
Yes, I was terribly inconvenienced, but the alternative is worse. The goal is to live another day to make some music. That's the bottom line.
~ J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Hello, Blog #1... Is this thing on?!?
Greetings and Feliciations! Jonathan from The Lost Boys of Penzance (LBoP) here. I've maintained an LBoP blog on the MySpace page and am now doing a separate one here on blogger.com. For now, the MySpace blog will co-exist in parallel with this one. Dunno yet if the blogspot one will take over the MySpace one...or vice versa. We'll see how it goes.
The purpose of this blog is to inform fans of the goings-on in the LBoP world, which should (in theory!) make for an interesting and/or entertaining read. Rather than post a blog just to blog...I will post a blog only when there's something interesting to say. I will also try to keep postings short and sweet rather than write a novel with all kinds of minutiae. We're all busy and pressed for time...I know!
...sounds good to me! ~J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
The purpose of this blog is to inform fans of the goings-on in the LBoP world, which should (in theory!) make for an interesting and/or entertaining read. Rather than post a blog just to blog...I will post a blog only when there's something interesting to say. I will also try to keep postings short and sweet rather than write a novel with all kinds of minutiae. We're all busy and pressed for time...I know!
...sounds good to me! ~J. Hawk D'Ville/LBoP
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