MONDAY 29th NOVEMBER 2010

 
Recording: 'The fairy feller's master-stroke' (SI on take 2)
Recording:
The WaterHouse - afternoon - P: Dude.

I finished the 15% remaining vocals for "The fairy feller's".
It's very funny to notice that 20 years ago I recorded the exact same two songs, on mono cassette recorders in home-overdubing. I guess I improved from thoses times.... ...but not that much !

SUNDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2010

 
Recording: 'My fairy king (take2)'
Recording:
Recording: 'The fairy feller's master-stroke (take 2)'
Recording:
The WaterHouse's upper room - afternoon - P: Dude.

On Ysn it was the time of a massive Queen buzz, because of a "décompte" going on. I wanted to do a mini-audio-saga that would go along the décompte, with one cover per album from the begining to the end :)

It was sunday so all the family was here but they were watching a movie which I was not interested in seeing, so I took the computer and the mike upstairs, and I recorded all of "My fairy king", and also 85% of "The faity feller's". All in three hours. It was a great feeling.

WEDNESDAY 24th NOVEMBER 2010

Rehearsal with the New Trio 47
Recording and filming: 'My friends'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Karma police'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Wild west'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Under the bridge'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Time is running out'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'One more time'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Don't stop me now'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Fit'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'I'm the man'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Little bit stupid'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Exit music ending (twice)'
Recording and filming:

France 3 basement - 21:30 - 23:30 - P: Dude. Present: Dude, Thierry, Arnaud.

The second rehearsal, in which we played all the remaining songs from our wonderful yet amazing repertoire. More amazing was this very first take of "Don't stop me now", which we played despite the fact that I hadn't rehearsed it and that the bassplayer didn't know the song. Considering theses facts, I think we made a pretty good job. It should have been a lot worse.

FRIDAY 12th NOVEMBER 2010

Recording: 'Piano thing from Zengland'
Recording:
The  WaterHouse - 18:00 - 18:15 - P: Dude. Present: Julian.

After a great afternoon listening to "Band on the run 2010", I went to the piano to quickly record this melodic idea so that I won't forget it. I'll use it later probably in a composition or a song. It's very Lennonesque I think.

MONDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2010

Rehearsal with the New Trio 46
Recording and filming: 'Look sharp ! (dist sound)'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Look sharp ! (clean sound)'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Suck my kiss'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'It's different for girls'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'On your radio'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Aeroplane'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Uprising'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Video killed the radio star'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Grace Kelly'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: ''Sunday papers'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Hump de bump'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Dani California'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Hysteria'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Just'
Recording and filming:

France 3 basement - 21:00 - 00:00 - P: Dude. Present: Dude, Thierry, Arnaud.

At last, for the first time since the concert, the Instant Crash trio rejoined and rehearsed ! The first part of the rehearsal was quite hard (as you can hear from the files above), but once we kicked into "Uprising" everything started to flow. Great !
There is one very special thing to notice starting with this rehersal: the use of a piano, in addition to the guitar. It proved to be very effective in the middle section of "Look sharp !". :)