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.