Wedding Gig Scrapbook (Summer 2015)
Apologies [once more] for sporadic posting, events are [yet again] beyond one’s control.
Photos from various weddings featuring Callanish, Rear View Band, and a fish in a glass box.
Ghost of Bongo @Berekeley2, Glasgow
@CallanishMusic play The Lodge
Ghost of Bongo @TheMooringsBar Aberdeen Friday 7th November
Ghost of Bongo are playing @TheMooringsBar, Aberdeen
Friday 7th November
@CallanishMusic Play Dundas Castle
Ghost of Bongo @ The Moorings Bar (Aberdeen) 7th November
Rehearsal & songwriting at Berkeley2 studios Glasgow, in preparation for Ghost of Bongo‘s GIG at The Moorings Bar (Aberdeen).
2, maybe 3 new songs to be revealed – exciting exciting 🙂
Dave Mackay Band
Too much fun can be had with 3 naughty boys and some wood ;-p
@CallanishMusic play Surgeons’ Hall Edinburgh
Engineering @ The Moorings Bar (Aberdeen)
A dream comes true, engineering at my favourite venue of my whole music career.
An actual win 🙂
Movin’ Melvin Brown @edfringe
Movin’ Melvin Brown (@movinmelvin) is in Edinburgh for the Festival.
Playing bass on the following dates for his 2 shows
The Ray Charles Experience – August 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th
The Tap Dancing Preacher  – August 12th, 14th, 16th, 28th
@CallanishMusic Play Selwyn College Cambridge
Apologies for sporadic posting, events are beyond one’s control.
@CallanishMusic Play St. Andrews (New Golf Club)
Lovely Venue, many thanks to staff at The New Golf Club Hotel, 1st class professionals throughout.
International guests for an evening of ceilidh, traditional, and contemporary Scottish music.
Goings-on as Bassist for Fisso Musica
A productive weekend for the Fisso Musica outfit, with acoustic recordings of Emily Atkinson, our new singing talent, on Saturday using the ever-skilful services of Guitarist and engineer Gavin Wiltshire. Â Followed by a full-band recording the very next day! Â Well done friends, great work and the results so far make for exciting listening.
Gavin and I had discussed previously and at length that we should aim to achieve both a much fuller sound and polished performance than the hundreds of performances we have seen and indeed been part of over the last few years.
So my thanks to Scott Galbraith, Emily Atkinson and Brian Macleod for your recent efforts; for the first time in a while I can feel a real sense of achievement in this corner of my musical activities, and I’m very happy to have had a good feeling grow into a good vibe, cheers folks.
Gav, well done bud, as ever.
Also playing trumpet for Rear View Music Scotland now
Please give a like to these fine folks if you can, a hard working bunch I have recently joined as a trumpet player.
http://www.edinburghfunctionband.co.uk/
Led Zepp – Stairway
Some more transcriptions vetted for use while wearing my teaching hat.
Another very nicely done tablature (thanks to Cong Xu for sharing) with a few amendments.
Wedding Bells @CallanishMusic Play The Debating Hall – Teviot
Simple Plan – Jam Along
4 chords work so well even Sean Paul failed to destroy this particular delivery of a well-established progression!
Get a 6 String – Bassline Extraction
@CallanishMusic Play Merchant’s Hall, Edinburgh
@CallanishMusic Play Cottier Theatre
Setups are not the most fun – but they are quite fun :)
Another Night with @CallanishMusic
Peavey Grind 6 Customising & EMG Upgrade ptiii
OK so this just wraps up the pickup upgrade work done to my Peavey Grind 6.
Thanks / appeals for forgiveness go to EMG Pickups & Peavey Bass Guitars, Red Dog Music and Duncan Roscoe.
EMG For the win :)
Today’s project 🙂
Be Serious About Your Sounds :)
Peavey Grind 6 Customising and EMG Upgrade ptII
Work is pretty much complete on my  Peavey Grind 6.
2 EMG Pickups (a 45CSÂ and a 45DC) fitted with surprisingly little effort, and for the nerds I went with an 18v supply, and modified wiring to maintain the original tone/volume control pair.
Peavey Grind 6 Customising & EMG Upgrade
OK so these images document the bulk of the pickup upgrade work done to my Peavey Grind 6.
I purchased the Bass from Red Dog Music store in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, it’s my second one, on purpose, because I love them; my friend and fellow Bassist Duncan Roscoe now owns my original one.
I also purchased some EMG pickups a 45CSÂ and a 45DC, as did he, and then we set about our instruments.
@ Callanish in Ayr – Ceilidh!
Callanish in Ayr – setups
