I posted a couple of my recordings to sort of a compilation/gallery thing with guitars made in my country, with solid representation of instruments made in the 80s/90s, magical era when everyone here was learning what capitalism was and before the shipping crates full of Squiers and Corts killed the local budget guitar market dead:
Original Mayones, made before Mayones stopped trying to compete with imports and focused on luxury guitars market. It was the bottom tier stuff, priced around the low end Squiers, but pretty nice with Schaller tuners and a roller nut. Pretty unknown stuff abroad I guess, I've seen post accusing one of the original 90s models of being a Chinese knockoff.
BTW, Mayones history stretches at least to early 70s when it was made to order by a couple of guys in Gdansk - obviously it was practically impossible to buy a Fender or Gibson guitar here (nowhere to buy and worth couple of lifetimes in Polish money). In general history of early industry here is pretty mental, with luthiers making their own hardware and pickups out of neccesity, materials obtained in most unlikely places etc.
Which is actually also Mayones, from the transitional period when they started to shift into original designs, so the copy guitars were moved to "Flame" brand, which is closed now and kinda removed from the company's history.
Compilation is mostly made of heavy songs, which painfully showed me how weak I sound next to it. Aside of playing quality - everything else is soooo much louder. That's what you get for being careful with limiters
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Hey, I really dig this! Sounds great. I wish the leads were a little louder / more isolated, but the sound and vibe is really good! Thanks for posting.
First one was made in 2008, I probably make it a bit different now. Altought checking back to back with newer recordings there's surprisingly minor progress. I a) suck b) achieved absolute perfection right from the start.
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I listened a few times all the way through and this sounds great - it's a treat to "rewind" and listen again and again. It also sounds like a lot of work went into it, especially if you did all this yourself so respect. I know my guys would dig it so I'll try to share with them. Keep up the great work.
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The first track you linked to reminds me of Aliensporebomb -- who hangs out at one of the Roland forums. I thought there might be a chance you knew of him. I'll post a link to your song in my forum and maybe he's familiar with your work. He'd love it.
And thanks for that mini-Mayones history. I've heard of the brand before but didn't know much beyond that.
This sounds awesome....and very well played as usual.
I hardly ever comment on here these days but I do listen to most of your tunes and they kick ass. Love to be able to play some of those puzzling space leads!
The first track you linked to reminds me of Aliensporebomb -- who hangs out at one of the Roland forums. I thought there might be a chance you knew of him. I'll post a link to your song in my forum and maybe he's familiar with your work. He'd love it.
Don't know the guy - went to the bandcamp and he does sound like kindred spirit a bit. I overdosed Ozric Tentacles and now can hardly live without having guitars joined with synth/ambienty bits. Thanks for pointing me to him! This is some buyable bandcamp content.
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And thanks for that mini-Mayones history. I've heard of the brand before but didn't know much beyond that.
There was a 70s model on a local auction site recently, someone bought it for pennies. Identical to the one used in this '74 clip of Polish prog shredders SBB(bass guitar is made by Mayones too by the way):
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Well done, good sounds. This style was pretty big over here in the 1970's... different groove perhaps back then, but the idea behind it all seems familiar.
Took me embarassing amount of time to actually learn my country had prog bands in the 70s. I probably thought they weren't permitted or something.
It was a tough time, indeed. Very political over here. A kind of rural aesthetics in clothing, recordings that sounded homegrown, a little Marx, a little Mao, a little farming, a little new age, a bit of free love, the works. Somehow we survived and moved on.
It was a tough time, indeed. Very political over here. A kind of rural aesthetics in clothing, recordings that sounded homegrown, a little Marx, a little Mao, a little farming, a little new age, a bit of free love, the works. Somehow we survived and moved on.
I'm wading through a 800 page book on local alternative culture - interesting observation, that the west did the alternative scene because everything around was too abdundant and too pretty while the east (as in iron curtain east) did it because everything was bleak and there was nothing available in stores. Oddly, the end result for both ended up quite similar.
But that's probably because the east was aping the west
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