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So a few months back I started playing drum with the band. Was using literally just a strap off an old laptop bag. Then I mocked up a quick strap rig with plain undyed leather, held together with rivets, non adjustable. Just to see if my design concept would work. It worked out fairly well. Then just before this latest run started I put together version one of my final rig about three weeks ago. its held to the drum with two straps. One just wraps around the base and the second wraps just below the head and under the tuning ropes. Here is a shot of the rig in action so to speak. You can see the lower strap. Last night I tweaked the rig again by redoing the hold straps in heavier leather and chicago screws so it can still be removed but will be much more solid on the drum. I have the pieces cut for a new should strap but that can wait :) the current one is still functional. the big buckle is off an old baldric I had. The strap attaches to the holding straps via brass buckles giving me quite a bit of adjustability for length depending on if I have my coat/cloak/doublet/ or what have you on that day :) Funny thing is the strap rig weighs far more than the drum itself :) the drum is a synthetic shell so is rather light haha Cheeks

CD is now available for order on the web site. iTunes, Amazon etc to follow as soon as they get them up. Sone snippets and ordering information can be found HERE

300 years in the making!!! Modern Day Pirate the latest CD from the Musical Blades releases Dec 4th at Davey's Uptown in KC CD release party for both the Blades and Capt Black's Sea Dogges. available for order on the website two days later. And on Itunes, Amazon and such as quick as we can get it there after. Normally about 45 days. Patch will be getting the website updated hopefully tonight with previews of the tracks. -Cheeks-

So it took them forever but the links to both our latest albums are now up on Amazon Live At Pubs and PirateCore High Seas Drifter

I swear I saw it there(must have been dreaming though). But according to Capt Patch it should show up on both itunes and amazon soon. Sorry for the delay. Apparently the service that was supposed toget the tunes up to the other services did not do so. But they are working to correct the issue. It can already be acquired digitally here http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/musicalblades4

Good news for those wanting to order form Amazon. Talked with Patch about it again today and he informed me he had contacted them and that Amazon was going to see about fixing the issue. However amazon did say it may take up to two weeks for it to start showing. So better than nothing but still not as fast as we would like eh? :) :) :)

hmm it should be on Amazon. Let me know if it is still not and I will get Patch to check on it. edit: I looked and it is still not up on amazon. It should hit there eventually though. Sometimes it apparently takes quite a while for them to get new stuff posted. which is a trifle annoying really...

Thank you much! For others who want to preview a couple full tracks the first two on the myspace are from the new album http://www.myspace.com/musicalblades1

Okay I am horrid at promos but here is one anyway :) :) Man we have been busy this year. First it was Live at Pubs and Piratecore now we have our studio cd for the year High Seas Drifter Anyway give this one a look. Some track previews available on the site. The CD is available for order and the downloads thru iTunes and the like will follow shortly. thanks for looking :) ed Aka Cheeks

whoa.. that is totally bad a**

Howdy All. Just wanted to put out a quick blurb. On Memorial Day, The Musical Blades release our latest cd - Live At Pubs and Piratecore. This cd is a compilation of things. 6 tracks that were done for the canceled Shipwrecked Music Festival last year of pure piratecore metal goodness. following that are 4 tracks from the Pirate Ball earlier this year and then we end with 3 new songs. Give it a look. right now you can order on the web and soon it will be up on Amazon/Itunes/etc. Also thanks to all who have come out to see us. If you are in the St Louis area we will be there for one more weekend at the final days of the Greater St Louis Ren Faire. Would love to see ya :) Fair Winds -Cheeks-

Alestorm is pretty nifty. Will have to check out Running Wild though as I have not heard them. -Cheeks

wow someone else who listed Rowdy Soul.. sweet love that tune Rollin Home is a fav to I seem to the be the only one in the world who doesn;t like Barret's. Can't really say why just not my cup o tea. But some old favs to like northwest passage South Australia Minstrel Boy mingulay Old Maui even Drunken Sailor depending on the version heh.

I would think Firefly would be close but not quite steampunk. but i see your point. I have personally slid Firefly almost into a Western category really.

Anytime, Patrick! I'm working on a leather vest right now; roughly 1890s pattern but tweaked to be steamy,,,I'll send pix! Nice :) i am slowly getting back into working leather after a wrist injury. Slow slow going with everything else going on. Am very interested in seeing how you take it steamy. SP is one of my fav genres. Has been for many years but around here until recently no one was constuming in it. Now starting to see a lot more at local cons.

Wow that is awesome. The Ball was an absolute blast. Good to meet folks finally too. Ed/Cheeks

Anyone know of a good golden Age era ship to ship miniatures game? most of the naval games I find are either after period or fantasy based.

Yea sorry I just noticed the pictures had gotten cropped. The bottom of the cover says James Brown & Son, Glasgow the title page says Collected by W.B.Whall, Master Mariner Glasgow: James Brown & So, Publishers, 52-58 Darnley Street 1920 The book contains around 40 tunes and several pictures of various ships, mostly drawing and painting repro's.

So today I get an envelope from an old friend. He had found an old receipt for the sound system I had bought for the band I was in at the time. But recently I had sent him some tracks of the pirate/sea song stuff I had been doing. Inside the mailer envelope was a wrapped present. Inside the paper I found this.. This edition was published in 1920. There are two more editions after it. Here is a page from inside Sorry the spacing is wierd not sure how to fix that with the picture embedding thing.

Is the second weekend Pirate weekend this year at OKC? I will at this point once again be attending as a patron. I recently parted ways with the singing group. The Twisted Blades had a good time at Scarlett's this year doing our...."original"(Muhahaha argh!) show Whose Pirate Is It Anyway hahaha. And watch out for The Blue Phantom! Not everyday a Pirate Superhero is born.

After Haunted Castle my singing group will get in touch with him and see how the wind is blowin :) Although I did notice my picture is already on the web page with The School of Stage Combat here is the web page address Joplin Ren Fair

They knew the line :) And after a half an hour attention starts to wane with so much going on around them.

Well today went well. Basically they still didn't really know what they wanted so I sort of went out in character and started asking the kids questions and pulling them in a bit. Asking them things like 'would you like to be a pirate? great here is your job. How about you? great well here is what you will get to eat once we get on the ship...then we discussed a bit how we glamorize pirate life. How we think it was great, but in reality it was a hard life. Fielded the usual questions about my accent,"Is that a real accent? Does it sound real? Then I guess it is real" Actually it does sound real if a bit modern but it works. After that I told stories of two battles, one of Edward England and then the last fight of Bartholomew Roberts. Told them in that order since the first fight pirates actually got a bit of shiny and in the second they mostly died. Used how Roberts died to illustrate what happened to a lot of pirates and went into what happened when you got tried and convicted , then ended the whole thing with a quote from PoTC, what happened to most pirates.. and what was funny was at this point a good portion of those watching actually chanted with me without prompting.. "A Short Drop and a Sudden Stop". I took some more questions thanked them for listening and sent them on their way. hehe what I didn't know was that one of the ladies listening was part of the crew that put this thing together. Didn't find that out till the other lady whom I did know was part of it came over and said " I hear you were great". Which made me feel good.

Finally got some information back from the place. They want me to speak about what I would do as a pirate in every day life. Heh the short answer is same thing everyone else does I just occasionally rob someone. But that isn't what they mean. They want me to talk about everyday sailing life which again is rather boring most of the time just like any other job. Can probably focus on the things we popularlly think pirates did and bring it to reality that way. So with those things in mind any more advice?

Congrats! Have finally gotten around to reading my copy that has been sitting for a week :)