MONDAY 19th MARCH 2007

Recording: 'Cheer down' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'There there' (acoustic take)
Bag-end studio - 13:00-14:30 - P: Dude.

Adding some vocals to "Cheer down": half of the backing vocals and a try at the lead. Then I did an acoustic take of "There there", but my voice was way too loud in the mix, so I guess I will have to do it again one day.

SATURDAY 17th March 2007

Recording: 'Cheer down' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - 22:20-24:00 - P: Dude.

I'm in a recording mood, nowadays :)
I did two rythm guitars for 'Cheer down': one clean that plays plain chords thru the song, and one slighty distorted which plays palm-muted root notes for the chords. Then I sarted doing the slide guitar solos. I'm not satisfied which the intro one yet, which I'll probably redo, but I'm really fond of my middle solo. I didn't think I could do it this well enough, considering the very little experience I have in the domain of bottleneck use.

THURSDAY 15th MARCH 2007

Recording: 'Casimir Pulaski day'
Recording: 'Mother of violence'
Recording: 'She painted up her face' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Behind blue eyes' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Sensation' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Amazing journey' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'We're not gonna take it' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - 13:30-17:30 - P: Dude.

A very productive day of music ! I finally recorded my versions of 'Casimir Pulaski day' and 'Mother of violence', which I was planning to do for months now, and then I was warm enough to attack the beast: the second half of the 'Shove it right in' suite. It was pure fun, pure energy, pure music, .... God I felt so alive... After that I just couldn't stop: I re-did all those Who vocals I was struggling on for months, and got interrupted in the middle of 'We're not gonna take it'. Otherwise....

TUESDAY 13th MARCH 2007

Recording: 'Cheer down' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - evening - P: Dude.

Finally adding some bass to the drum part I recorded so long ago.

SATURDAY 3rd MARCH 2007

Recording: 'Friendly fire medley'
Recording: 'She painted up her face' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Great vocal works that day. The Sean Lennon medley really was just a warm-up thing. But then I finally started actually giving life to one my greatest musical fantasy: Flo & Eddie's part of the 'Shove it right in' extravaganza ! The instrumentation in this is done by a 14 year old boy (!) named Lou, which recorded his parts in just one day, without even previously knowing the song !

SUNDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2007

Recording: 'Time to hide' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - evening - P: Dude.

Finally doing the guitar solo for this song. At first, I wanted to do it backwards, but then I chickened out.

THURSDAY 15th FEBRUARY 2007

Recording: 'Time to hide' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Recording the lovely backing vocals for this song.

THURSDAY 25th JANUARY 2007

Recording: 'Time to hide' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Doing two takes of voices. Each separated by an octave. I haven't decided which one tu use yet. But I have decided a major change: from now on my 'stage' name is going to be "Zongadude", and not the too-simplesque 'Dude' I used so far.

TUESDAY 23rd JANUARY 2007

Recording: 'Time to hide' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - evening - P: Dude.

Finally doing that song. Adding bass and two guitars. Really an enjoyable session.

MONDAY 22nd JANUARY 2007

Recording: 'Little lamb dragonfly' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - 13:30-14:30 - P: Dude.

Rapidly doing the final choir voices for David and going back to work.

SATURDAY 20th JANUARY 2007

Recording: '1985' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Doing the lead vocal track for that crazy song.

THURSDAY 18th JANUARY 2007

Recording: '1985' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.

Just before going to work, I did all the voices for the choir sections of '1985'.

TUESDAY 16th JANUARY 2007

Recording: '1985' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - evening - P: Dude.

Doing the all the other guitars except for the lead guitar solo to the coda.

MONDAY 15th JANUARY 2007

Recording: '1985' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - evening - P: Dude.

The first recordings done with the use of my new E-MU box unit: fours guitars for '1985'. The main two guitars that emulates the piano, and the funky-Chic guitar that appears here and there. Working this this unit is so smooth, that I almost enjoy making recordings again. ;)

WEDNESDAY 3rd JANUARY 2007

Recording: 'Little lamb dragonfly' (SI on take 1)
Recording: '1985' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude. - Present: Val, Doreen, Julian.

After a two months break, recording has resumed in Bag-end studio. I finally managed to finish the bassline to 'Dragonfly' which I was doing with David for Ysn. And then I also did the bass for '1985' which was started a long time ago. This was the last recording I ever did with instruments and mikes directly plugged in to the computer. From now on, I would use my new E-MU box.

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.

WEDNESDAY 21st DECEMBER 2005

Recording: 'Jet' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Wah-wah' (SI on take 2)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Adding backing vocals for those covers to be done by Terry.

SATURDAY 10th DECEMBER 2005

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

Finally doing all the guitars for this number. Almost all of them were slide parts, a kind of a premiere for me. I really enjoyed creating racing cars sound with my bottleneck and some distorsion. :)

THURSDAY 8th DECEMBER 2005

Recording: 'I'm looking through you'
Recording: 'How many songs (have we lost)' (demo)
Recording: 'Unfinished wink#3: Hey, met ton manteau !'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

25 years since the passing of John Lennon. :(
Today I finally recorded my instrumental version of 'I'm looking through you' for Pat, from Ysn. I also did a fun french parody of 'Anytime at all' for Badfinger. Finally, I tried to create a song with a brilliant set of lyrics a guy called Alex has put online on Ysn.

MONDAY 5th DECEMBER 2005

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

Doing the rythm guitar, along with the two lead guitars of the intro. Wild.

SATURDAY 30th NOVEMBER 2005

Recording: 'Learning how to love you' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

This is when I did the acoustic guitar solo for that beautiful song.

TUESDAY 22nd NOVEMBER 2005

Recording: 'You really got a hold on me' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Cross-eyed Mary' (SI on take 1)'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Finally doing the vocals for 'You really got a hold on me'. As for 'Cross-eyed Mary', I tried to do it in high pitch like the Iron Maiden version, but I couldn't, so I did it in the low octave, like the Jethro Tull version. These are double-tracked.

MONDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2005

Recording: 'You really got a hold on me' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Adding some bass to Badfinger's instrumental version.

SATURDAY 19th NOVEMBER 2005

Recording: 'Wah-wah (Terry's version)'
Recording: 'Bangla-Desh'
Recording: 'Don't be careless love'
France 3 basement - 13:00-14:00 - P: Dude.

Some drumming for those upcoming covers.

MONDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2005

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

Take 1 is Maxsilham on guitars. So I did the vocals.

THURSDAY 28th OCTOBER 2005

Recording: 'This never happened before (a certain softness)' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Doing the carefully crafted lead guitar work. I loved every second of it.

TUESDAY 26th OCTOBER 2005

Recording: 'This never happened before (a certain softness)' (take 1)
Recording: 'Two of us' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Doing the acoustic guitar, and some vocals for this cool 2-merged songs arrangement. Also adding some bass to Jac and I's version of 'Two of us'.

SATURDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2005

Recording: 'Beware my love' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Val, Julian , Doreen.

Finally the final touch on 'Beware my love': the electric guitar part. I couldn't resist adding a little solo overdub near the end. It's kinda short, but I like it very much. It's been improvised "in the moment".

SATURDAY 8th OCTOBER 2005


1st Live performance at the Beatles Day in Mons (Belgium)
Recording: 'Jenny Wren'

Recording: 'Friends to go'
Recording: 'Too much rain' (with Calico)
Recording: 'Riding to Vanity Fair'
Waux Hall, Mons, Belgium - afternoon - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Calico, Coco, Mr mustard, and a whole lot of people....

I wanted to do this for a long time: play at the Beatles Day in Mons, Belgium. I sang four songs, all taken from Paul McCartney's last album "Chaos and creation in the backyard". For 'Too much rain', I sang in duet with Phil Calico. 'Friends to go' I did on the uke, to gave it that George harrison feel Macca talked about, and I did 'Vanity Fair' both on guitar and glockenspiel, while singing at the same time. I just loved that day. full of friendship, good vibes, and the evening show was fantastic.






Thanks a lot to the whole Beatles Day team, to Marco and Clo for the photographs, to Calico, and to all the wonderful Yellow-subians I met that day.

SATURDAY 1st OCTOBER 2005

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

Adding the vocal part to this great George Harrison song.

WEDNESDAY 7th SEPTEMBER 2005

Recording: 'Good morning snippet'
Recording: 'Yellow submarine'
Recording: 'We all stand together'
Recording: 'Once upon a long ago'
Recording: 'All you need is love'
Recording: 'C moon'
Recording: 'Silly love songs'
One-eyed Jack's kitchen - evening - P: Dude. - Present: Dude, Val, Julian , Doreen.

I wanted to do this for a long time. :) Some evenings we had the kids to eat on their own, because of time restrictions. But one of us would always stay with them, so that they weren't eating alone. When it was my turn, I used to take my guitar and sing with them whatever they wanted to sing. I needed to record one of these evenings. I did. It sounds surprisingly well. This Minidisc unit + stereo microphone is a gem. The kids in this are marvellous, as always.

SATURDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER 2005

Recording: 'Getting better'
Recording: 'Cross-eyed Mary'
France 3 basement - 19:30-20:00 - P: Dude.

That night I was going to see Back to the legend in Nancy, and met with Clive and Am'. The show was to start at 21:30 so I took some time to do a 2-song drum session.

FRIDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 2005

Recording: 'Comfort of love'
Recording: 'Too much rain'
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Doing those two songs on acoustic, and then adding vocals.

SATURDAY 27th AUGUST 2005

Recording: 'Two of us' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Learning how to love you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Fine pie/Flaming line'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Doing my acoustic part on the 'Two of us' duet with Jac. I also added a vocal part to 'Learning how to love you', which is now almost finished. And after that I did a goofy take of Fine line merged with Flaming pie ! One guitar, one lead voice and two backing vocals.

MONDAY 22nd AUGUST 2005

Recording: 'Faster' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Meat city' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Doing the rythm guitars for those two songs.

TUESDAY 16th AUGUST 2005

Recording: 'Faster' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Meat city' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Beware my love' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Doing the vocals for those three songs. The George one was quite easy, I expected the backing vocals to be more tricky. The John one was very pleasant to do. And the Paul one was very hard. I think I did the basics, but I'll probably had one or two more attempts to the process.

MONDAY 15th AUGUST 2005

Recording: 'Faster' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Meat city' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Beware my love' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Those three songs got their bass part on that evening.

SATURDAY 13th AUGUST 2005

Recording: 'Behind that locked door' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Doing the two electric guitars melody, and that's it. :)

WEDNESDAY 3rd AUGUST 2005

Recording: 'Behind that locked door'
Recording: 'Learning how to love you'
Recording: 'See yourself'
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Recording those free lovely George Harrison songs with an acoustic guitar. Only 'Behind that locked door ' got a vocal part sang live. The two others were done as instrumentals.

SUNDAY 24th JULY 2005

Recording: 'I am your singer'' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Recording the flute. It was very hard to do. Because the flute I played couldn't play low notes, I had to transpose the recording take up to obtain the correct tonality.

SUNDAY 17th JULY 2005

Recording: 'Comfortably numb'' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Finally, the last piece of work for 'Comfortably numb': the solos. Since last attempt, I found my chops back. Thank you. ;)

FRIDAY 15th JULY 2005

Recording: 'Final drums for 'The end''
Recording: 'The prophet's song'
France 3 basement - 13:00-14:00 - P: Dude.

Cool drumming today. :)

THURSDAY 14th JULY 2005

Recording: 'Drum improv'
Recording: 'Boguey music'
Recording: 'Crosstown traffic'
Recording: 'Devil's radio'
France 3 basement - 13:00-14:00 - P: Dude.
Recording: 'Comfortably numb' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Some more drums including a new improv :). Yipee ! In the evening, 'Comfortably numb' finally got its bass part. I also made a few guitar solo attempts. I have to get my chops together because they're in a pretty bad shape. :(.

SUNDAY 10th JULY 2005

Recording: 'Absolute beginners'
Recording: 'So sad'
France 3 piano room - 13:00-14:00 - P: Dude.

Some piano works. I did the piano track for the 'Absolute beginners' cover I'm doing with The Fireman from Ysn.

SATURDAY 9th JULY 2005

Recording: 'Faster'
Recording: 'She came in through the bathroom window'
Recording: 'Try not to cry'
France 3 basement - 13:00-14:00 - P: Dude.

Another drum session. I also tried to record drums for 'Getting better', but I failed miserably. :)

TUESDAY 21st JUNE 2005

Recording: 'Paperback writer' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'I am your singer'
(SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Doing (and filming) all the voices for 'Paperback' writer. Adding also my vocal part to 'I am your singer'.

MONDAY 20th JUNE 2005

Recording: 'I am your singer' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.

Rapidly doing the guitar part, before walking the children to school.

FRIDAY 10th JUNE 2005

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

Just a tiny bit of recording: the opening 'I dig a pygmy...' voice. ;)

SUNDAY 5th JUNE 2005

Recording: 'Fading in, fading out' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

More recording for Ringo: all the guitars.

SATURDAY 4th JUNE 2005

Recording: 'Fading in, fading out' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Two days before the release of Ringo Starr's new album, I recorded a cover of this song I like so much. I first did an acoustic track, than a tambourine, then all the vocals.