SATURDAY 21st OCTOBER 2006

2nd Live performance at the Beatles Day in Mons (Belgium)
Recording and filming: 'Getting closer'
Recording: 'Yer blues'
Recording: 'You never give me your money'
Recording: 'Maybe I'm amazed'

Waux Hall, Mons, Belgium - afternoon - P: the people in charge of the PA system. - Present: Dude, Marco, Jean, Coco, Ozzy, Olivier, Watching Wheels, Filou, Mathilde, Claude Nine, and a whole lot of people....

For my return to the Beatles Day I wanted to do something different than the acoustic set I did last years. So I managed to get Stef and Boz to accept to reform the Power Trio and come with me to blast away 4 wild songs: 'Getting closer', 'Yer blues', 'You never give me your money', and 'Maybe I'm amazed'. To my great pleasure, the choice of the stelist was a incredible success: a countless number of people came to me to say they have been delighted to hear 'Getting closer' live. To me, it was only the realisation of a dream. I feel fucking lucky that what I wanted as a dream as been so well recieved by the audience. Sometimes I'm blessed.





Thanks to Marco, Juan Jose Alva, Jean-Claude Hocquet, and the amazing Mathilde for the photographs.

FRIDAY 20th OCTOBER 2006

Dude's Power Trio rehearsal 37
Recording: 'Drum duet'
Recording: 'Getting closer'
Recording: 'Yer blues'
Recording: 'You never give me your money'
Recording: 'Maybe I'm amazed'
France 3 basement - 21:30-23:30 - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Stef, Boz, Gringo.

Fourth rehearsal for the concert. My voice is back, and the music is not astounding, but it was a necessary rehearsal. Gringo was here, and before Stef arrived Gregg and I improvised a crazy drum duet. All of the rehearsal has been recorded.

SUNDAY 15th OCTOBER 2006

Dude's Power Trio rehearsal 36
Recording: 'Getting closer'
Recording: 'Yer blues'
Recording: 'You never give me your money'
Recording: 'Maybe I'm amazed'
Horse Motel, Room B - 19:30-22:00 - P: Dude. Present: Dude, Stef, Boz.

Third rehearsal for the forthcoming Beatles Day 2006 performance. It was the first time I came to rehearse in the new and improved Gattaka playroom. The reahearsal was excellent. Very good overall sound (although my voice still hasn't recover). I tried to play on the Gretsch for a while, but it's lack of high notes prevented me from using it. (It sounded great on 'Yer blues', though). This has been recorded.

WEDNESDAY 11th OCTOBER 2006

Dude's Power Trio rehearsal 35
Recording: 'Getting closer'
Recording: 'Yer blues'
Recording: 'You never give me your money'
Recording: 'Maybe I'm amazed'
France 3 basement - 19:30-22:00 - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Stef, Boz.

Second rehearsal for the forthcoming Beatles Day 2006 performance. Playing "Getting closer" as a band for the very first time. Too bad I was terribly sick and my throat was completely soundless. I recorded the session anyway.

FRIDAY 29th SEPTEMBER 2006

Recording: 'Only one more kiss'
Recording: 'Behind blue eyes'
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Doing those two numbers in a very simple way. I also tried Mike Keneally's 'I'm afraid' but I don't think I did a good job, once again.

FRIDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER 2006

Recording: 'See-saw'
Recording: 'Paintbox'
Recording: 'Fat old sun'
Recording: 'Julia dream'
Recording: 'Grease'
Recording: 'Kids in America'
Recording: 'Welcome to the machine'
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

After a 6kms walk in the sunny country, I came home to record some acoustic stuff. The best recordings from this session are "Paintbox", "Julia dream", "Grease" and "Kids in America". The worst is "Welcome to the machine", and the rest is average ("See-saw" is not that bad).

SUNDAY 17th SEPTEMBER 2006

Dude's Power Trio rehearsal 34
Recording: 'Yer blues'
Recording: 'Maybe I'm amazed'
Recording: 'You never give me your money'
France 3 basement - 21:00-22:30 - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Stef, Boz

The return of Dude's Power Trio, almost two years after the last rehearsal. The boys rehearsed songs for the forthcoming Beatles Day 2006 in Mons, Belgium. It was a cool rehearsal. Several takes of each numbers were done, and a recording has been made.

THURSDAY 14th SEPTEMBER 2006

Recording: 'Touloutoutou (42 ans au compteur - tryptique#1) (demo)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Just before going to work I started to compose a song out of some french texts written by Thierry Pernin. If everything goes on as plan, I should obtain à three piece... ...something.

TUESDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2006

Recording: 'Blood from a clone'
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Recording with the Minidisc this simple rendition of George Harrison's number.

MONDAY 28th AUGUST 2006

Recording: 'The deracined' (demo)
Recording: 'Black Sabbath'
Bag-end studio - all-day - P: Dude.

The first recording session since June. During the intermission, I moved, leaving not only the One-eyed Jack studio, but also my childhood home and land. It's time for a new beggining in a new place. Bag-end Studio is named like that because it is located on the top of a green hill which look just like the Shire. So be it. It took me a while to accomodate to the new place and actually record something. As an additional change, I permanently plugged my guitar into the Blue Devil. So for now on the guitar signal will non longer be directly injected into the computer. I also unearthed my old mixing board for the occasion.
The first thing I recorded in this new studio of mine is really just a rough demo of a two-intricated-guitars motif. For this I quicly set up the Blue Devil (Hell channel - Heat at maximum - Volume at 6 - EQ B-2 M+6 T+2 - Preset 9) and the GT2 (clean). I used the same setting (except Blue Devil preset 62) for the rough guitar of 'Black Sabbath'.

TUESDAY 20th JUNE 2006

Recording: 'Being for the benefit of Mr Kite' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Lover's leap' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Adding the glockenspiel solo of 'Mr Kite', and creating the final psychedelic section by hatching the solo into little pieces and putting it back randomly and sometimes in reverse (just like George Martin did in 67) :)
I also did 1,5 guitar and the two vocals for 'Lover's leap'.

MONDAY 19th JUNE 2006

Recording: 'Being for the benefit of Mr Kite'(SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Doing a bass for the middle and ending sections of Mr Kyte.

MONDAY 22nd MAY 2006

Recording: 'Le Si ment, le Si rage, le Si lance, le Si clope'
One-eyed Jack - 09:30-10:15 - P: Dude.

Composing and immediatly recording this little acoustic guitar ditty, destined to be the closing segment of the 7-parts experimental series for Ysn.

WEDNESDAY 17th MAY 2006

Recording: 'Kashmir' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The prophet's song' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Val.

Adding the final guitars for Kashmir (the ascending figure of the end, and the arabian mellotron of the middle).
Then I add immense fun doing three rythm guitars for Queen's "The prophet's song", with a hard open D tuning on the electric.

FRIDAY 5th MAY 2006

Recording: 'Kashmir' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Cousin Kevin' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Redoing some of the vocals for "Kashmir", and doing all the vocals (except the verses) for 'Cousin Kevin'.

THURSDAY 20th APRIL 2006

Recording: 'Kashmir' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Behind blue eyes' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Backwards traveller' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning and afternoon - P: Dude.

Adding an acoustic guitar tracks, and than many electric guitars to 'Kashmir'. Doing the acoustic work and all the vocals for 'Behind blue eyes', and doing three voices for 'Backwards traveller'.

FRIDAY 31st MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Being for the benefit of Mr Kite' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Recording the lead and backing vocals for this superb song. I sang along with the crazy toy piano I found in France 3's basement.

WEDNESDAY 29th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Amazing journey' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'We're not gonna take it' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Sensation' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Acid queen' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Kashmir' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - 00:00-00:00 - P: Dude.

I had time to do some vocals, so I did voices for all those Who numbers. ("We're not gonna take it" only received it's verses vocals yet). I also did a bunch of voice for "Kashmir".

SATURDAY 25th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Kashmir' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Recording the bassline for this great song.

TUESDAY 21th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Back in NYC' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Adding some dropped-D fuzz bass to this crazy Genesis track. I don't know where I'm going, but I know it's there. :)

MONDAY 20th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Mother's little helper'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

A very fast cover: first time played, first take, I was reading and discovering some of the lyrics as I recorded my vocal part. :) The guitar and the vocal has been recorded simultaneously, and I just overdubbed the 2nd voice for the bridge.

SUNDAY 19th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Kashmir'
Recording: 'Monkberry moon delight'
Recording: 'Nineteen-hundred and eighty five'
Recording: 'Back in NYC'
Recording: 'Firth of fifth'
France 3 basement - 14:00-15:00 - P: Dude.

Drumming like mad for those 5 hard numbers. What the hell was I thinking ? :)

FRIDAY 17th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Revolution' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Adding the voices to 'Revolution'.

TUESDAY 14th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Revolution' (take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Plugging-in my guitar as I intended to record some clean guitar for 'Don't be careless love', but then I heard that horrible guitar sound: I forgot to switch the line-in channel of my pc to 'Line'. It was still on 'Mike', so the level of the incoming signal was too hard and got distorted like crazy. I immediatly thought of 'Revolution' so... ...there you go!

MONDAY 13th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Getting better' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Doing the backing vocals for this cover I'm making with Mr Moonlight.

SUNDAY 12th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Getting better' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Magic' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude. - Present: Doreen, Julian.

Adding basswork to 'Getting better' and the first half of 'Magic'.

SATURDAY 11th MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Getting better' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'She came in through the bathroom window' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.- Present: Val, Doreen, Julian (playing Gameboy upstairs).

Doing two guitars for 'Getting better' and finally doing all the lead guitar parts for 'She came in'.

FRIDAY 3rd MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Within you without you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Sensation'
Recording: 'Acid queen'
Recording: 'Cousin Kevin'
Recording: 'We're not gonna take it'
Recording: 'Amazing journey'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Doing the two electric lead guitars for 'Within you without you', and then doing all the acoustic parts for the 'Tommy' selected tracks.

WEDNESDAY 1st MARCH 2006

Recording: 'Within you without you'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Doing the acoustic guitar and two unisson vocal parts.

SUNDAY 19th FEBRUARY 2006

Recording: 'Behind blue eyes'
Recording: 'The answer's at the end'
Recording: 'His name is legs (lady and gentlemen)'
Recording: 'Don't let me wait too long' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't be careless love' (SI on take 1)
France 3 basement - 13:30-15:00 - P: Dude.

Doing some drumming for the first 3 numbers, and adding vocals for the other two (all vocals for the George Harrison song, and the lead for the Paul McCartney song). "The answer's at the end" will be done with David from YSn.

SATURDAY 18th FEBRUARY 2006

Recording: 'Bangla-desh' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't be careless love' (SI on take 1)
France 3 basement - 14:00-15:00 - P: Dude.

Recording the piano intro for 'Bangla-desh', but the sound is not very good. Then I went to the other room and I added some vocals. I also did the verse choir for 'Don't be careless love'. :)

THURSDAY 9th FEBRUARY 2006

Recording: 'Opening night'
Recording: 'Song for a dead singer'
Recording: 'Moondance'
Recording: 'Life on Mars ?'
Recording: 'De quoi a besoin l'amour ?'
Recording: 'Dear Prudence'
Recording: 'Life on Mars ?'
France 3 basement - 13:30-14:30 - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Mariette Helou.

This is a first: just for fun, Dude started to rehearse with singer Mariette Helou, during the mid-day break at work. This is the third time they rehearsed together, but the first time they record the session.

SUNDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2006

Recording: 'Rocky Racoon'
France 3 basement - 13:00-14:00 - P: Dude.

Michael from Hey Bulldog asked to do a cover with Terry and me. I was given the rum part. I recorded those drums directly on my new laptop computer, with a regular mono microphone. And then one day, Michael left Ysn and this cover never materialized.

SUNDAY 29th JANUARY 2006

Recording: 'Shine on you crazy diamond' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Try not to cry' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'She came in thru the bathroom window' (SI on t. 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Doing a lot of vocals: all the remainig choirs for 'Shine on...', two leads for 'Try not to cry', and all the voices for 'She came in through...".

SATURDAY 28th JANUARY 2006

Recording: 'Try not to cry' (SI on take 1)
Recording: ''She came in thru the bathroom window' (SI on t. 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Doing some crazy guitars for those two songs.

FRIDAY 27th JANUARY 2006

Recording: 'I'm looking thru you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Try not to cry' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'She came in thru the bathroom window' (SI on t. 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Adding some small backing vocals to Pat's lead vocal track, and doing the electric guitar. Then I did the bass for 'She came in..." and "Try not to cry".

SUNDAY 22nd JANUARY 2006

Recording: 'Shine on you crazy diamond' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Max wanted me to add vocals to his cover of 'Shine on you crazy diamonds". So I did. :)

WEDNESDAY 4th JANUARY 2006

Recording: 'Beautiful night' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Doing the vocals for 'Beautiful night' for Terry.