Gig: 11/3/1994, Mike Peters, London – Astoria 2

Day Seventeen: Tuesday 14 June 2005 James Stevenson arrives back with his son Oscar in tow. We decide to tackle the guitars on ‘Cease And Desist’. Out comes the cherry red 12 string Gibson 335. This is the guitar that gave such a distinctive sound to ’45 R.P.M.’. The intro riff sounds great even though it takes an age for James to get used to the correct way of playing [read more]

Day Eighteen: Wednesday 15 June 2005 James wants to have another go at ‘Cease And Desist’. Overnight he has come up with an idea for a ‘sound’ for the intro. This involves using an MXR Phase 90 pedal with a Gibson Les Paul. It sounds really good and now we have the dilemma of two really good introductions for the song. Most of the day is spent going over the [read more]

Day Sixteen: Monday 13 June 2005 Today I decide to tackle the acoustics on ‘Menai Bridge’. I had been doing some thinking over the weekend and deiced to return to my Takamine 12 String. I always seem to have trouble playing six string acoustics. I suppose it goes back to my first years learning the guitar which were spent with a 12 string that only had the six main strings [read more]