Ginger Geoffrey's Instrumental and techical journey

Ginger Geoffrey Too Old to Die Young sat on stage at the Lymelight festival playing Guitar and singing in front of a backdropped of stage lights.

Instrument & Technical Journey

Cajon, Custom Cajon & the eventual Farmer Foot Drum

First iteration of playing with a Cajon. This was achieved by using a bass drum pedal nestled up against the cajon sound board.

Self assembly Cajon purchased off fo Amazon

But it could be so much more. Amazon delivery of a Flat Packed Cajon with the addition of three bas pedals and some engineering meant.......

Customising th Cajon with bass drum pedals.

internalising a lot of the moving parts to make it easier and more consistent to set up. Here the second of the three bass drum pedal is being mounted.

Cajon with all three pedals installed. The right pedal (left one as we are looking at it) is the bass, (Ginger can thank Daz Clement from the Bash and Strum partnership for the right bass pedal, as he's a leftie and Ginger got to know the drums through a leftie set up. The other two pedals, the front is the snare and the rear a cabasa.

Street set up of the Cajon and Hit (also used as a tablet stand).

Another example of the venue set up for the Cajon.

Cajon set up with the addition of a second hi-hat and attachment arm for both splash and crash cymbals and a vibroslap

Venue full Cajon gig set up. You can see the modified bass pedal (pedal no. 4) for the splash cymbal (next to the guitar). BUT the set-up was becoming unwieldily. So....

The is when the move was made to the Farmer 12 pedal Foot drum for venue gigs.

Venue setup with foot drum was tighter and had a small footprint.

The next challenge became moving and storing the foot drum safely . (The large box behind the chair is the first attempt at storage).

Gingers first foray as a solo performer included a crude setup with a Cajon (box drum) and bass pedal used to provide a basic rhythm. Keeping the performance 100% live with no looping was and still is his signature bare bones approach.

The use of the cajon became a regular thing and evolved with Ginger building a custom cajon with three bass drum pedals mounted inside the cajon. The first gave the bass drum sound, the second, from a small snare mounted inside was the snare sound and the third pedal controlled a cabasa. Ginger soon aded a hi-hat and then later a splash and crash, vibra-slap, tambourine and various shakers.

Gig and Busking Trolley

Initial busking trolly set up.

Two guitar carry option needed

1st custom busking / gig trolly

2nd custom busking / gig trolly

3rd iteration busking / gig trolly

Pedal Boards

Amazon Flat Packed Cajon

Installing the second of the three bass drum pedals.

Cajon with all three pedals installed. The right pedal (left one as we are looking at it) is the bass, (Ginger can thank Daz Clement from the Bash and Strum partnership for a right bass pedal, as he's a leftie and Ginger got to know the drums through a leftie set up. The other two pedals, the front is the snare and the rear a cabasa.