Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Crash Midnight's Bo Talks Bass Guitars


On the Lost in the City album I’m using a 1977 P Bass which has a nice fat sound. I picked it up at a yard sale a bunch of years ago and was able to find this beauty tucked away in the back next to an old Swingline and some wooden tennis rackets. 
 
Although I love the sound of it, if I’m being completely honest I picked it up mainly because it’s the same bass that Paul Simonon is destroying on the cover of The Clash’s London Calling album. For our next album I’m looking into using a Rickenbacker 3001 to get a bit brighter, more surf inspired sound. I know it won’t be a 25 pound behemoth like the P Bass but the sustain is still incredible. As soon as I have some new tracks recorded with it, I’ll throw some online so you guys can judge the difference for yourselves!


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

To All Our Fans

We wanted to use this #BackstageTuesday post to thank you guys for supporting us and spreading the word about Crash Midnight to all your friends.  This band has overcome so much adversity and opposition from shady promoters to "music industry" fast-talkers trying to get their hands in the band's pockets (much of which became inspiration for our single "Diamond Boulevard") that we wanted to take the time to dedicate this post to you, our fans and friends as we celebrated the milestone of watching our Crash Midnight Twitter roll over 100,000 followers this past weekend.

We'll try to post up a little video of some of the celebration for you guys tomorrow on #NewVideoWed to let you guys share in the party ...since we'll pretty much take any excuse to throw a party.  Our label is finishing up the promotion plan for our debut album Lost In The City and we'll have a whole lot of news about that to release to you guys here soon.  Until then, have one for us.

Rock n' F'n Roll!

-Crash Midnight