PETE DREAMS UP A DITTY 'BOUT A 'HITCH HIKIN' FOOL'.

Pure fantasy this little number.

It's a yarn Pete dreamed up about a dude who gets his rocks off  spending his weekends following fate to wherever and whatever his thumb takes him. Gets out on the Princes Highway, just north of Pambula, sticks his thumb out , and is more than happy to go waft off wherever a ride might take him. Further on up the road as it were.

 

On this occasion a beguiling temptress pulls up. Hmmmm.........

 

Story goes that around dusk they glide into Milton feeling a bit peckish. Pull into the pub, one drink leads to another, and another, and then...........well take a listen to the lyrics.

 

Didn't quite turn out as our blindly optimistic fool of a hero thought it might. But you know, them's the breaks. Close to a kewpie doll, but you can't win 'em all.

 

We'd been playing around with this one for quite a while. It started out as a sort of marching drum beat, but that didn't seem to have the legs ( as it were ). It stayed on the back burner for a while and nearly got lost in the queue. But we sort of liked the story so, you know, try this, try that. Eventually we figured "what the hell, it's only rock and roll". So out came the old four on the floor.

 

And HERE it is.

 

Works for us!

 

Pete wrote the lyrics and banged away on the drums

Mick Nadin belted out the lyrics  and blew his harp

Neil Porter played the guitar and did all the production work

Louise Nadin played the bass

Graham Brown gave the tambourine a thrashing

 

Good fun thanks team !!!

A HUMANS BEING WAKES UP TO FIND "SHE'S GONE"

The PBGB Shed has evolved over the years, what with so many musos coming and going, all the while doing their own thing outside life in the PBGB Shed.

There was a time when some of The Shed regulars split off and started rehearsing at our terrific  local community radio Sapphire FM studios in Pambula. That line up was Mick Nadin, Louise Nadin, Graham Brown, Steve Faggotter and Pete. After a while, Pete drifted away from that leaving the quartet of Mick, Lou, Graham and Steve to make a go of it.

 

Next thing we knew they had a repertoire and started  gigging. They are still at it and now perform regularly around the local traps. They go under the name Humans Being.

 

When potential venues started asking them for samples of their songs, they came into The PBGB Shed to record some quick demos. .

 

It's  traditional that we post at least a sample of whatever is recorded in The Shed, and as Lou, Graham and Mick are now part of the regular Shed line-up, we thought we'd post one of their demo recordings.

 

We chose a ditty they call "She's Gone".  Came up sounding  like THIS

 

It's a story about waking up in the morning feeling somewhat hungover and having trouble remembering just exactly what went on and what you said the night before. Oops, baby's gone.  What happened ? Can we rewind please? Baby please don't go.

 

Have a listen and if you like it, catch Humans Being at a gig near you!

 

The song came together with all players pitching ideas into the ring.

 

Graham Brown wrote the lyrics and played a plethora of  percussion instruments.

Mick Nadin sang and played harp.

Steve Faggotter played the guitar

Louise Nadin played bass