Hal McGee 50th Birthday Mania

Sunday afternoon group jam

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K Paul wrote to me at 8:39 AM, Wednesday, January 23, 2008:

Who knew Hal could rock the bass with such devastating ... devastation?

The fretted bass is a 1985 Fender Precision Elite.
The other one is a fretless Warwick Corvette 4-string.

Effects were:
1.) Digitech Whammy Pedal
2.) Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Mod from Big Briar
3.) Moogerfooger MF-107 Freq Box from Moog
4.) Guyatone TDX Tube Echo
5.) Pigtronix Echolution Phi.

There's your early morning gearhead fix.

Also used was a Type U73 synthesizer.

all photos on this page by Hal McGee unless noted otherwise

 

On the afternoon of Sunday, January 20th, after a scrumptious brunch at First Watch restaurant in Tampa, those who had not already departed gathered in K Paul's (Otolathe's) home for a free-form jam. I recorded the music on microcassette and K Paul recorded it on digital.

Brunch at First Watch restaurant: Phil, Andrew, Hal, K Paul, Fyodor, Lauren (Babushka), Al - photo by Goff

Here is a 45:03 mp3 of the jam session, as recorded by K Paul Boyev (Otolathe).

Listen in streaming audio for Broadband connection - 128 kbps

Download a 128 kbps 41.2 MB mp3

counterclockwise from far left of photo: K Paul/Otolathe (bass), Charlie Goff (bass), Phil Klampe/Homogenized Terrestrials (Octave Cat synthesizer), Lauren Swain/Babushka (Casio SK-1), Andrew Chadwick/Ironing (microcassette), Little Fyodor (slide whistle)

after a bit we switched up and I stopped taking photos and joined in on bass (photo by Phil Klampe)

Phil Klampe plays the bass