GORDON wrote:

keithmeredith wrote:Thanks for the link Mike. Just listened to the interview on listen again - comes across very well.

See you at Barford on Saturday.

Keith

Where were you Keith, we missed you?

G.

Indeed! Trust all is well. M

... and the same from me too!

Have a great day and do what Jonah did on his birthday... have a whale of a time!

Go easy on the Benylin!

Many Happy Returns. Mike

Gordon will be appearing on BBC Oxford 95.2FM tomorrow (Saturday) morning as a trail for his forthcoming appearance in Banbury.

Click the link below to listen live or listen again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/tv_and_radio/

Mike

... and this month (April) Sound on Sound magazine has an in-depth feature on recording acoustic guitar. I haven't read it all yet, but it looks good!

Mike

An excellent review once again Keith! Of course, it's not for me to comment on the quality (or otherwise! :lol: ) of the sound, but I agree that Mr G was at the very top of his game last night. The Ecchoing Green/London was played with particular sensitivity - fair brought a lump to the throat it di...

... playing the introductory and exit music for this week's 'Book at Bedtime' on Radio Four. The book: "Solar"; the music: "Here Comes the Sun" of course!

Indeed! Truly excellent!

Mike

Hi Andrew I'd never thought about that before... but your query sent me a-googling! It seems as though the original version of the poem as written by Blake does use the double-c spelling and many versions I've found on t'Internet reflect that. Digging deeper as to why double-c I found this in some n...

Ah! We definitely have a Rode mics fan-club starting here! Not wishing in any way to start a "mine's bigger than your's!" boast-session - not my style - I'm a huge fan of Rodes. I have two NT3s, an NT4 and a newly acquired matched pair of NT5s. All bought second-hand from EBay. Of course I...

Excellent write-up and commentary Trevor! I think we're of a mind about the role and place of pick-ups in live performance. Back in the '70s it was a nightmare trying to mic guitars - pick-ups were virtually non-existent then, apart from maybe Ovation guitars. As you so rightly say, pick-ups have co...

Hi Andrew Gordon will go into the detail, but the sort of pick-ups you're asking about are these: http://www.fishman.com/products/details.asp?id=46 I don't know if this is the model Gordon uses; I know he has at least some Fishman pickups. You may have noticed, or Gordon may have described, reaching...

Fascinating piece on the BBC News website about TV Theme Tunes. This occasioned by the sad death of Johnny Dankworth who penned the themes for The Avengers and Tomorrow's World. People have commented on their favourites and two of Gordon's holiday tunes get a mention. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi...

Fascinating stuff!

This seems to be the place to find out more - and buy the strings:

http://www.rohrtech.com/

It's clear that this is not some smoke and mirrors job - the guy's got a US patent on the process!

Hi Terry! I hope Sue and Gordon will tolerate me wandering off topic a bit here... Do you still have your Ferrograph tape-recorder? I had various models of these back in the '70s when they were my machine of choice. These days I'm all-digital. It's so much easier in every way, but the huge, heavy ma...

So I was right!

I heard it too, but it was so low in the sound mix that I couldn't be sure that it was AGB at first.

Well-spotted Roger! I said to my wife that if you were watching you'd have picked up on that.

Heady days! World Bowls is on too!