Guitar throwbacks from the recovered hard drive
~2007-2008 potato-quality clips of the old Epiphones.
First guitar, 2004
Squier California Series Stratocaster. Cheap with a god-awful neck, but it fitted the undergrad budget and was good enough to learn the basics on.
Hayman at Albar, ~2008
Surely Dunedin’s greatest band.
2000s pre-Spotify flashback
The bombproof Aiwa system (it's probably still working somewhere). CD towers and wallets galore. Tight.
Back from the dead
After 14 years of sitting in storage I finally pulled the trigger on recovering the files off an old hard drive from the university era. Surprisingly, having not been powered on for that entire period, 99% of the files were recoverable (cheers DataLab).
A proper time capsule so far. Exhibit 1: ~2007, the trusty Epiphone Les Paul, and for some reason long lost to history, a “Pakehas know how to party” t-shirt:
Mr. Biscuits at Refuel, November 2010
Totally forgot that I recorded this! These guys were 10/10 for the short period they were around.
The Federales - XII Below Sound Desk Recordings (2010)
Following up on the previous post - a selection from the sound desk recording from the same night. On reflection I might have come in a bit too hot on the distortion/fuzz those days, but no regrets!
Fraser Ross. From Dunedin.
(I don’t care much for the actual music).
From deep in the archives
Circa 2009.
Dunedin revisited
Copious amounts of nostalgia over a surprise birthday visit to the old hood. Many boxes ticked. Covered in the photos: the obligatory campus walking tour; revisiting Dunedin jams (over many hours and beers, and enabled by a mountain of equipment; "
" at The Crown; Emerson's Brewery; and a scenic trip back to the airport);