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'.