"HEY JOE" by Ralph Gresham Lam and Mickey (of "Love affair") скачать в хорошем качестве

"HEY JOE" by Ralph Gresham Lam and Mickey (of "Love affair")

I was so honored and lucky to be asked down to Pan Am beach to jam with the local music god-father of Ascension while visiting the island on business in February of 2011. Mickey is the proprietor of a beach "club" on the island. There are several (many?) of these club-type buildings on the various beaches around the island which aren't really owned by anyone in particular, but are tended to by one person or another. Mickey is willing to perform all the upkeep of this one, so he reaps the benefit of hosting the occasional party at the "club" as well using it for his own personal music studio. I was also invited to join Mickey's band, "Love Affair" to play a birthday party at an actual British club up on one of the mountains on the island when I returned in April of the same year. Mickey and the gang were born and raised on an adjacent island named Saint Helena (the island that Napoléon Bonaparte was exiled to). Natives of Saint Helena find good pay taking on contract work on Ascension island. Their knowledge of American and British music is impressive. Everything they have learned is from Youtube, which is impressive being that internet service on the island is not as fall-out-of-bed easy to acquire as it is in the states. Even though much of the creature comforts are provided on the island, there are no music stores on Ascension island. Musicians on Ascension island order musical equipment, sight unseen, from catalogs and websites and "hope for the best" as Mickey puts it. As I am writing this, I am remembering that the electricity we were using to power the microphone and guitar is wind power. Such a unique opportunity and cherished memory. NOTE: I added the bass and "ooh-aahs" later when I got home.