Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

Oh yea Nature I rode KTMs for a number of years.

Get you a Honda CRF 450.

We used to use Munns Racing for parts in Waco while my son was on 65s and 85s. I had a couple of 2003 250SXs, that i rode at the time. Once he got on big bikes we went with the Hondas.

Hey Jeff the music on your myspace sounds really good. I must have missed what instrument you play? But you sound really good.

Good Luck

Thanks for the tunes natureboy, I like your sound too. Just wondering what genre do you feel your band fits in. I know you said you were a country band, but I was just curious.


Its another day in Paradise !!!

Yeah, great tunes. I like the singers raspy voice. Sort of 80's ish, but I loved the 80's.

No apologies necessary Jeff, I was just wondering how I should have taken the post. I gotta tell ya I’m a long way from being the rich boy you thought I might have been. The older I get, the more outta line my priorities seem to be which makes all the worse...lol On the name thing, the drummer for Kutless and I share the same name and I’m in no way related to Paul. I’m surprised my dad didn’t chunk pebbles in a metal bucket and name me after the sound it made when he came home from Korea.
I also feel your pain with loosing a band member to cancer. In the band I played with before putting together my last country band, the lead singer/lead guitar player died of cancer. It’s tough to see someone you think so well of and admire so much fall prey to cancer. It literally tears you down and there’s nothing we could do to stop it.

Mr. Tennessee (jw123) I love the Whitney track and it’s just a few minutes up the road from my house. I haven’t gotten to race there in a couple of years due to time & money constraints but I’ve had some good times there. Chip Munn is my dealer too and always takes care of me. When I was racing 125’s, I lost the bottom end and Chip gave me a mod bike to race for a few weeks. He is an asset to our sport.
In 2000 I was reintroduced to dirt-biking by my daughter. I hadn’t sat on a bike since 1976 and I thought it was hilarious when she wanted to race. It’s all her fault I’m in the position I’m in, ya know. She wanted to be like Jeremy McGrath and I didn’t even know who he was. After she finished explaining that I knew nothing about anything, I bought her 1st bike. I couldn’t chase her around on foot so I had to get me one too. Of course with a bike purchase begins the hunt for places to ride, that’s when we discovered Waco Eagles. I’m now on my 4th term as the president of Waco Eagles www.wacoeaglesmc.com . When you watch the Freestone nationals on TV this weekend, watch for my face. They are presenting our club with an award for 75 years of continuous operation in off-road motorcycling. I will receive the award on behalf of the club during the opening ceremonies at the nationals.

Btw, I play guitar. I had something wonderful happen to me during the Christmas holiday this year that started out tragic. It involves a guitar. If you’d like t read it, here’s the link. http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/004692.html
http://archive.guitarplayer.com/article ... c-08/92145
Mine is actually a one off version with gold hardware and Santana pickups.

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My previous band was a country band. I don’t have the CD uploaded but I’ll try to get to it eventually. I threw up the myspace thing late last night just to get the new stuff up. The only thing I’m skeptical about the new band is what genre it will fit in to. Nothing ventured / nothing gained I suppose.

Take care
One of the other Jeff’s!

Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

If you're only planning to do your vocals through the system, a self conained "powered" mixer will probably work fine with speakers that mount on stands.

If you're looking for the solid wall of reinforced sound and the entire band is going to be mixed into the PA...you're gonna need to be a bit more tecchy about it.

I'm a huge fan of the PRX series JBL speakers.
The 535 has a 15" bottom speaker...a mid range horn (2") and a HF horn (1.75") And a 750 watt amp inside the cabinet.
Two of those and a powered sub (nothing smaller than an 18")..you're cookin with gas and don't have to cart around that heavy assed rack of amps.

You're going to want a mixer with subgroups so you can send your vocals out of the board to be processed and compressed separate from the rest fo the mix.

Peavy has a line of really high end mixers in at least 16 and 24 ch versions.
There's a high quality processor for reverbs, delays, echos, chorus etc...AND a Compressor, Deesser, Feedback eliminator also built in that can be mixed into any or all channels.

The MG series Yamaha mixers are nice too.

Mackie USED to be the sh*t..now..perhaps just sh*t.

If you're going to be mixing from the stage (which I don't recommend but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do) make sure you can send the mains mix into your monitor so you can check on what "THEY" are hearing as opposed to what you're hearing in your monitor mix.

Nature_Boy, I finally got home Our band is off this evening and I had to pick up my daughter after a long drive both ways.

I listened to your music. All I can say is who are you dude. OMG. Please forgive me but I have been burned so many times in life. You see I am from a very large city where there is so much bullshit and wanna be's. After listening to the music you have posted and dude I have done some pretty cool things musically. But after listening to that, you really seem like a rich boy sorry I don't mean to insult you, IF YOU ARE FOR REAL.

That is one of the most perfectly thought through and produced recordings I have ever heard. So You have Jeff Tate singing for you? Those songs are perfectly produced and recorded no one gets that kind of studio time. I can see the religous overtones and if that is where your budget comes from I say you are cheating by claiming it to be the Jeff Gilbert band. I forget exactly which instrument you play and I will tell you the virtuosity in the soloing did not impress me (Iwill blow you away) but the use of production and money and the use of suspended chords was cool.

So I say which one are you;
* either you are the musical equivelant of Tiger Woods and I hate you. LOL!
* or you are a frikken rich boy.
* or you are an unbeleivable work a holic and are very talented.
* you are the luckiest SOB and actually have Jeff Tate singing with you.
* you are actually a wanna be.
* you are just a guy like me that puts your pants on one leg at a time and have the resources to put a project like this together.

Come on dude come clean. I new my big mouth would get me in trouble some day. You really sound like a major producer or a bullshitter. Are you Mutt Lang LOL. because that is the only person I know of that can produce a recording like that with that voice and the talent at hand????????