LTH,dva MP3's on line

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

mp3's of my band Last Train Home featuring cuts from the new album "Time and Water" are up online at:

http://www.lasttrainhome.com/mp3s/mp3s.html

All the cuts are great (imo) but of particular steel guitar interest are:

Time and Water (fills and backing)
Once in a while (intro & "Texture")
Blue Skies (intro and fills)
Best Wishes (solo)
Pollo Rico (solo)

I hope you like what you hear if you choose to listen.

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"I AM Z-BOY!"

Zumsteel U12 "Loafer" 8&6 :: ZB Custom D-10

:: Fender Tube Amplification
www.lasttrainhome.com

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Jay Ganz · From: Out Behind The Barn

What GREAT stuff!!!
Excellent song writing & recording quality.
Alotta top notch pickin' too.

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Thanks Jay! Tell your friends, have them tell theirs...

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

promotional bump.

Ken Lang · From: Simi Valley, Ca

Very, very nice. Excellent sound and production.

My favorites:
Pollo Rico-Of late I like that kind of music.
Lorelei
All right OK
Best wishes
Walls of time

I guess you spent an hour or two getting that project together.

Great job. I've bookmarked it so I can get back and listen to the earlier things you have done.

Thanks for sharing the music.
Ken

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Thanks fortaking the time to listen, and for the kind words and nice feedback; and thanks should go to LTH webmaster for posting the mp3's.

Maybe some of the folks who like 'em will actually buy the record...

Donny Hinson · From: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.

Good job Dave...cool! Your playing on "Pollo" reminds me of Hal Rugg, and most of the other songs show more than a little "Gordon Lightfoot influence".

Keep it up.

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Thanks Donny. I'm sincerely flattered. (criminy! Hal Rugg?). And as much as I am personally gratified, I also want to stress that it's indeed a group effort, that I am "playing for the team" and the "good of the song". Somehow this band, Last Train Home, comes together to achieve something "greater than the sum of it's parts."

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Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

to clarify a bit- it is my band but I am not the band leader. But I am proud of my work with them.

Brandin · From: Newport Beach CA. USA

Nice job Dave! You sound like a leader to me.

GB

Mike Perlowin · From: Los Angeles CA

Cool band. Great drummer. Very nice lead and steel work.

If there is any justice, you'll be a huge success.

Jody Carver · From: KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED

I dont think he plays so hot

he is huge,,but his playing ???

But I do like him,so I guess he plays OK..
Not great but OK

Mike send Dave a pair of those new shoes you invented. You know those ballet shoes, I heard he wears leotards when he does a gig.

Oh how sweet he is ..

[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 01 March 2003 at 09:04 PM.]

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

yeah Jody- they are the tweed leotards with the fender logo...you remember, the ones you said were too big for you, I might as well have 'em

wisenheimer

thanks for the kind words from Mike and Gary, two players who's playing, creativity and opinions I respect a lot.

Jody, you know how I feel about you.

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 03 March 2003 at 06:11 AM.]

Jody Carver · From: KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED

Yes I do.But tell me again cause I like it

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Dave, is that your ZB Custom or your Zum on Blue Skies?

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Dave, is that your ZB Custom or your Zum on Blue Skies?

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Kevin:

"Blue Skies" is the ZumSteel. Actually all PSG on the current CD is. I haven't yet recorded with the ZB (a circumstance I intend to change soon)

thanks for asking.

dva

Jody:
click here

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Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Dave, one more. What was your pickup and amp combination with the Zum? Thanks.

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Kevin:
Here go's

'98 ZumSteel U12 with '99 "dva series" custom wound Bill Lawrence Pickup:

My Zum originally came with a BL 712 but I had problems with it, and so I went to visit Bill in Bethlehem PA about 50 minutes from me one afternoon.

Bill asked me many questions about what I liked, what wasn't the 712 PU doing for me, and filled several sheets of legal foolscap with equations and had me play thru my amp while he tweaked and fiddled with stuff and rambled on about henrys, ohms and the like.

After a few hours of this, Becky took his specs and went into the back room... I came home with a new PU created on the spot custom wound for me, no official model number- it was about the time the 900 series was coming out so it may be similar.

All I know is I like the way it sounds !

Especially through:

1968 Fender Twin Reverb Amp retrofitted, likely early in it's life with JBL d130f 15" speaker . I believe we tracked with the Twin's onboard reverb.

And I think it was a Shure SM57 just off the center of the cone about 4 inches away- the engineer handled that stuff, but at another session he had performed a mic "shoot out" on my Vibrolux and the 57 won, so it was the "go to" mic...

George L's cables x 2 = 1@ 3 ft. to volume pedal, 1 @ 6 ft to amp
Goodrich L120 volume pedal
Clear plastic "dobro" thumbpick
Three dunlop .018 finger picks
JagWire Strings
Several cups of Folger's
Pepsi

ProTools. on a Mac g4

prolly more than you wanna know... (Jody has that effect on me)

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Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Dave, I love that tone. It sounds retro to me. I think the Twin is helping with it alot. Great interpetive playing also. Good stuff man. I'd like to hear your ZB if you ever get some MP3's.

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Thanks Kevin. I guess I'm just a retro kinda guy...although I feel so modern

retro futuroid, like an art~deco starship

as Jerry Hayes sez
"Livin' in the Past and the Future..."

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 04 March 2003 at 01:05 PM.]

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

oops...double post.

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Jody Carver · From: KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED

I dont know why I'm so nice to you?

Iain · From: Edinburgh, Scotland

It's the featured CD on my friend's show - www.themillertellshertale.co.uk

Good show! Give it a listen.
Iain

Dave Van Allen · From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

Thanks Iain! She had sent us an email saying as much- nice of her!! I got a 404 failure on your url link though- typo?
We're goin' global!

we also got a positive "will add to playlist" from WXPN (U of Penn) Philadelphia PA program director

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