MICK NADIN NEEDS TO KNOW...... 'WHO DO WE BLAME?'

General Mikey and his Harp Arsenal

Mick pretty much takes care of what leads go in where, and which knobs to twiddle, on the Shed's recording set-up and PA.

'While back he fired everything up for a Sesh ...... nothing worked. Big Blank. Oh dear !

Mick was perplexed, and maybe a bit concerned that he might have done something wrong and blown up the whole shebang.

We managed to get it sorted............we'd pressed an Up-Date button and didn't realise we had to re-set the audio gizmo ( or something ).

Mick was righteously relieved. Not his fault. Settle down and have a beer Mick.

Not long after, he turned up with a song called 'Who Do we Blame?', and encouraged us to  'rassle up a bit of reggae riddumming.

It was fun tackling that weird back to front reggae feel.  But good fun thanks Mick.

Anyway, THIS is what came out.

Relax Mick, it's all good............. Ya didn't do it.

Mick Nadin wrote the song, sang it and harped on

Louise Nadin played da riddum guitar

Chris Ralfs da bass

Graham Brown hit all sorts of things

Peter Reid played upside down drums

Kerry Hynes chimed in with 'Such a Shame'

Neil Porter mixed it all down and did his Production thing.

Hope ya like it !

MANNY AIGNER SOLOS ON HIS 'MADLY DEEPLY'

Manny has been a very welcome Shedder for a couple of months now. He recently moved down to Pambula from Jindabyne and was looking for some like minded souls to play music with. It was while he was playing at the Candelo Blues Club that somebody, maybe Brother John Drews, suggested he get in touch with PBGB.

Well he did, and we invited him along to check out the Shed scene.  Much to our delight he seems comfortable in The Shed, and has settled in as a regular. Fab!  Suits us just fine!

Manny is a great guy who plays tasty acoustic and electric guitar, sings, can handle the bass, and writes the odd song. He's a professional music teacher to boot, so he knows his stuff, and that comes in handy in The Shed as well.........we do, after all,  have plenty more to learn.

Manny has already made his PBGB Blog debut ................ check out his groovy guitar lines on Mick's 'A Dream' and Jock and Yarni's 'Mama Told Me So'.

We were, however, keen to feature Manny shining in his own light. We knew he had a few originals up his sleeve, one of which, 'Madly Deeply' is an instrumental that Manny uses as a warm up on his solo gigs.

So a couple of days back we took time out to record it .......... listen to Manny soloing on 'Madly Deeply' by clicking HERE.

Hope you like it  !

Manny casually knocked it out in one take with the aid of his trusty looper pedal.

Thanks for hanging out in The Shed with us Manny. We're looking forward to featuring more of your work  on the PBGB Website.