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“Prayer is the courage to persevere. It is the struggle to overcome our own weakness and lack of confidence in ourselves. It is the act of impressing in the very depths of our being the conviction that we can change the situation without fail. Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny... Believe in yourself! Don't sell yourself short! Devaluing yourself is contrary to Buddhism, because it denigrates the Buddha state of being within you.”.
Daisaku Ikeda.
Showing posts with label Midget Submarines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Midget Submarines. Show all posts

Knackered and OUCH !!!!

So finally after 16 years, the Midget Submarines finally came together for a proper rehearsal .. we booked a room and even a new drum kit .. was pretty weird at first sitting behind it but soon got into it though I found my confidence had gone so ended up (mostly) keeping time and very little else ... which made it fairly uninteresting. Quite amusing though that we naturally seemed to play everything slower at first .. must be age ... even Paul 'Boo' Woods !!!

As time went on, I must admit that I enjoyed it less and less and by the time I got home, I really didn't want to do the gig and am still undecided, though I need to make my mind up pretty quick so they can find a stand in if I do drop out. Number or reasons really but one was that I was completely exhausted after drumming for 2 1/2 hours .. I like to think I'm reasonably fit and nothing really ached .. just feel completely drained of energy .. which is probably why I'm so grumpy about playing, so we'll have to wait and see I guess. If we do play, we definitely need to do the sets shorter and sharper !

With a bit of luck, there'll be two clips here later which might swing my mind one way or the other .. have to say it sounded pretty bad from where I was but the others thought it sounded OK and it can sound bad from behind the drums to be fair. Best quote of the night was Ken 'why's my beard grey' Popple who said .."... hey .. it sounds really good with earplugs" !!

Also .. I think I need to refine my technique ... as well as hitting the snare, I end up wacking my leg at the same time and my leg looks like a piece of tenderised steak today !!!!























Anyway .. here's couple of pics taken on my phone .. poor quality though:




















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MIDGET SUBMARINES !!!!


After an abscence of 16 years, the legendary Midgets .. well 3 of them, got back together for a rehearshal as we're doing a one off gig in November .. don't worry, we won't be reforming !!! I must confess I was reluctant to do it .. partly as I don't like nostalgia but it was good to meet up with Paul again .. especially as he's a LOT balder than me :-) ... and it was surprising how the old songs came back .. all sounds promising and we have two more rehearsals before we play which probably doubles the number of rehearsals that we ever did in our whole existence ... Age seems to have caught up a bit though as we did drop a couple of the faster numbers as we can't keep up any more ! I'm sure it will decend into the usual chaos though ... and I'm sure that some of that will surface here !!!

Anyway .. a couple of sneakily taken pics from the rehearsals ... especially like the 'fat Ken' one :)















































Oh .. and I couldn't resist taking this one .. County fans .. get on your knees :-)


OH .. and if you're wondering what the Midgets sound like .. here's three songs that others have covered that we wrote (yeah right )





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