MONDAY 25th JANUARY 2010

Rehearsal with the New Trio 34
Recording and filming: 'Time is running out'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Hysteria'
Recording and filming:
Recording and filming: 'Just'
Recording and filming:
Not Recording: 'Suck my kiss'
'France 3 basement - 22:00 - 00:30 - P: Dude. Present: Dude, Thierry, Arnaud.


Recording and filming: 'Bohemian rhapsody' (take 2)
Recording: 'A day in the life (take 2)'
'France 3 basement - 00:00 - 01:30 - P: Dude.


Once again we had to start very late because I've broken a string. This was the first time I used my wonderful TZ7 camera, and so I managed to film and record a bit of the rehearsal. I will probably do that every time, from now on. It was just a attempt, because I didn't frame the picture very well (we can't see our heads), and I couldn't sing proparly anyway (I had a flu). So we now have three videos as souvenirs, but they're not satisfying at all. But since the sound quality of the recording is excellent (no saturation at all !), it will be a great tool.
After the three Muse numbers, we then we worked a bit on "Suck my kiss", but there was no need to film that one yet.

Right after the trio rehearsal, I started this crazy project of the "Bohemian Rhapsody" video and cover. I wanted this time to really take care of the picture and filming quality, to do a much better work than what I did with the "Paperback writer" video. Hopefully I had the TZ7 ;)
Another great premiere: I recorded with a real drum mike setting ! I mean, the drumkit had microphones on each element, just like in a real studio !

I did all the drums for that number. In HD. Yeeeeaaaahhhh..... !
And then I did some drums for a version of "A day in the life" in common with some bunch of guys from Lucy.

THURSDAY 14th JANUARY 2010

Recording: 'The prophet's song' (SI on take 1)
The Watehouse - 13:30-13:35 - P: Dude.

Doing the the toy kotos for the intro of the song.

TUESDAY 12th JANUARY 2010

Recording: 'The prophet's song' (SI on take 1)
The Watehouse - 13:30-13:45 - P: Dude.

Doing the acoustic guitar for the intro of the song.

MONDAY 11th JANUARY 2010

Rehearsal with the New Trio 33
Not Recording: 'Creep'
Not Recording: 'Just'
Not Recording: 'Exit music (for a film)'
Not Recording: 'Eteins la lumière'
Not Recording: 'Grace Kelly'
Not Recording: 'Video killed the radio star'
France 3 basement - 22:00 - 00:30 - P: Dude. Present: Dude, Thierry, Arnaud.

Strange rehearsal.
We started very late, because I (once again) broke a fucking string, and this before even starting to play the first song !
Strange also because I decided to bring in my laptop in order to try to use some live plug-ins. It worked well for 'Creep', but is a bit superfluous for the rest.

SUNDAY 10th JANUARY 2010

Recording: 'The prophet's song' (SI on take 1)
The Watehouse - evening - P: Dude. Present: Val, Julian, Doreen.

Hey ! Finally I'm working again on this thing :)
I did all the non-rythm guitars for the first rock part, along with a lot of the guitar stuff that happens in the third part of the song. The only remaining guitars are the solo one, along with the crazy 12 guitars extravaganza near the end (with 6 guitars on the left, and 6 guitars on the right).

MONDAY 4th JANUARY 2010

Rehearsal with the New Trio 32
Not Recording: 'Wild west'
Not Recording: 'Look sharp'
Not Recording: 'Sunday papers'
Not Recording: 'Different for girls'
Not Recording: 'Fit'
Not Recording: 'One more time'
Not Recording: 'Suck my kiss'
Not Recording: 'Aeroplane'
Not Recording: 'My friends'
Not Recording: 'Under the bridge'
Not Recording: 'Hump de bump'
Not Recording: 'Time is running out'
Not Recording: 'Hysteria'
France 3 basement - 21:00 - 00:30 - P: Dude. Present: Dude, Thierry, Arnaud.

The first rehearsal of 2010 :)
We hadn't set up any agenda for that rehearsal so we played whatever song we wanted to play. I had manufactured a kind of a board on a sheet of paper with all the songs we did (and the one we talked about doing), and Arnaud picked up the songs and we played them.
Although I had absolutelty no time to warm my voice up for this session, I believe I sang very well, and my voice was in great shape.
In fact it was a very cool rehearsal.