Cymande at Ronnie Scott's

DocfosterDocfoster
in Live music
One week and counting. :-)
Very excited.

(Not sure what I feel about seeing the band who wrote the soundtrack to my spiritual life in a venue that sells 50g of Sevrugga caviar for £150... But hey-ho, at least we bought non-dining tickets...)

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  • Suzy6toesSuzy6toes
    Gosh, that's coming round quickly. Looking forward to hearing your response to it all, including impact of venue!
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Ronnie's has changed since the days when I used to roll in after the pubs closed to catch the last set.

    I'm bound to say 'not for the better', but Ronnie's is still open, which is a great thing.

    They also used to have the best live sound anywhere. I hope the new owners haven't buggered that up.

    Enjoy!
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Suzy6toes said:
    Gosh, that's coming round quickly. Looking forward to hearing your response to it all, including impact of venue!
    Will do!
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    uglymusic said:
    They also used to have the best live sound anywhere. I hope the new owners haven't buggered that up.

    Enjoy!
    Thanks Dave. And that’s encouraging.
    When I saw them at The Barbican a couple of years ago, the sound was unspeakably terrible. I was hoping that Ronnie’a should be ok at worst. Fingers crossed.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Really enjoyable.
    Venue ok. Sound fine.
    Performance excellent. Band were charming. Song choices pleasing.
    Highlights for me were Bra, Willy’s headache and The Message.
    Managed to grab a few words after the gig with my all time bass hero Steve Scipio from the band. He was very gracious. I was very embarrassing.
    A good night.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Cool. It sounds like a good gig, and it's always good to talk to your heroes. I spoke to Elvin Jones after a gig at Ronnie's. I'll never forget that.

    Sounds as if the sound wasn't exceptional, though. How to mess up priorities...
  • Suzy6toesSuzy6toes
    I envy you both your courage to speak to your heroes like that. Ben, excellent news they continue to work their magic for you!
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited February 2018
    Suzy6toes said:
    I envy you both your courage to speak to your heroes like that. Ben, excellent news they continue to work their magic for you!
    It didn’t really constitute “speaking”.
    It would be better described as “babbling” and “mumbling”.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited February 2018
    uglymusic said:
    Cool. It sounds like a good gig, and it's always good to talk to your heroes. I spoke to Elvin Jones after a gig at Ronnie's. I'll never forget that.

    Sounds as if the sound wasn't exceptional, though. How to mess up priorities...
    Absolutely fine, but not exceptional no, no. Not where I was sat anyway.
    i walked across the room to go the toilet a couple of times and the sound improved towards the centre of the space. We were off to the right. It was slightly thin sounding over there. Absolutely fine. But not exceptional.
    important to point out that I doubt if anyone other than audiophile pedants like us would care or even notice.
    And it’s well designed to give a good view from anywhere.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited February 2018
    One for my scrapbook...
    Basically the guy is my favourite living bassist, musician and song writer bar none.
  • cj66cj66
    ...and there was me thinking you'd gone to London but actually no, I never knew there was a Ronnie Scott's in Australia!
    >:)
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    cj66 said:
    ...and there was me thinking you'd gone to London but actually no, I never knew there was a Ronnie Scott's in Australia!
    >:)
    Hmmm.
    i’m thinking the photo maybe inverted on some devices...
    And there I was feeling smug that i’d managed to do the whole thing, from selfie to posting, successfully on my phone.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    cj66 said:
    ...and there was me thinking you'd gone to London but actually no, I never knew there was a Ronnie Scott's in Australia!
    >:)

    There was I thinking they were going out of the way to give us a detailed view of their nostril hair :-)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Docfoster said:
    cj66 said:
    ...and there was me thinking you'd gone to London but actually no, I never knew there was a Ronnie Scott's in Australia!
    >:)
    Hmmm.
    i’m thinking the photo maybe inverted on some devices...
    And there I was feeling smug that i’d managed to do the whole thing, from selfie to posting, successfully on my phone.

    Oh, only some?
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    uglymusic said:
    Docfoster said:
    cj66 said:
    ...and there was me thinking you'd gone to London but actually no, I never knew there was a Ronnie Scott's in Australia!
    >:)
    Hmmm.
    i’m thinking the photo maybe inverted on some devices...
    And there I was feeling smug that i’d managed to do the whole thing, from selfie to posting, successfully on my phone.

    Oh, only some?
    Well there’s at least one (this one, my phone) on which it appears the right way round.
    So yes, some not all.
    i’ll try to sort it when I get a mo.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited February 2018
    How does this one look?
    It’s upside down for me.

  • Suzy6toesSuzy6toes
    It's the right way up for me..... if i turn my phone upside down :wink:
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Suzy6toes said:
    It's the right way up for me..... if i turn my phone upside down :wink:
    That’s my kind of work-around...
    :-)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Suzy6toes said:
    It's the right way up for me..... if i turn my phone upside down :wink:
    Oh. Why didn't I think of that?

    I've been standing on my head.  :|
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    uglymusic said:
    Suzy6toes said:
    It's the right way up for me..... if i turn my phone upside down :wink:
    Oh. Why didn't I think of that?

    I've been standing on my head.  :|
    Can we have a photo?
    (doesn’t matter which way round it is.)
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