'dance music only appears to be constant tempo - you have to respond to the dancers'

this is true - whatever kind of dance music you play.

the thing is - you get more adept with these machines - and you 'll find you can shoot from the hip - after a bit.

I didn't say it was instant gratification - its at least semi skilled stuff we're talking about.

This thread has prompted me to check the internet and Royston Jones is still active in the south wales area. Old Royston was bloody good even thirty years ago. He absoluely blew me off stage one night in Newquay, midWales - when I'd just started out.

His drum machine was straight off an old organ and literally had all these bell noises. I think it cost him about six or seven hundred pounds - so you can see how popular the guy was even then - how much work he had. Coupled with a terrific Welsh voice, he really was something.

Incidentally an interesting snippet for folk fans - Downes and Beer were session men on Royston's first album. They played on about a hundred road albums for English country and western artists - round about that time! So the roots of Show of Hands studio techniqueha an a few interesting by roads!


all the best

al