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Little Fish playing Old Fashioned Morphine at the Drawingroom last night. It’s a new song (hence the music stand with lyrics!), but I think we nailed the vibe. It has a classic Velvet Underground-style feel to it, and it’s fun to play.
It’s rare (and useful for me) to hear the Hammond mixed this loud. I could hardly hear it on stage…
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I’m in love with Cherry Wainer. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a freaky performance. She rocks the Hammond, and delivers these weird grins every once in a while. Amazing.
Cherry Wainer & Don Storer - Peter Gunn
I’d never heard of Cherry Wainer before, so I did a bit of research. There’s not much to go on (no Wikipedia page!), but there are a couple of other YouTube videos (from the same show by the look of it). One of them has Cherry playing a super-swung version of A Taste Of Honey. I know the Beatles version of the song from Please Please Me, because my brother and I used to think it was hilarious when we were kids and played it all the time. If you don’t know the Beatles version, listen to it first:
Then check out Cherry’s magic version. It may well blow your mind. And if you can’t hear the bass, get some headphones on. She’s playing that with her feet.
I need to find out more about this Cherry character. And I need to figure out how she gets that Hammond sound. Beautiful. ;)
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Juju had a new song she wanted to record, and all my amps and stuff were on loan to a friend, so I played the Hammond on my iPad. It’s not too difficult, and sounds pretty cool in this sort of recording setup. It’s also extremely convenient.
The app is called C3B3 Pocket Organ, and is the best thing ever. I’ll post some screenshots of the settings I used later for the geeks. ;)
Little Fish - You’d Better Tell God (acoustic kitchen version) (via JujuNez)
