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shermaramaRight. S'been a bit of a while. Things round here have been.. interesting. Don't talk to me about parents, I've got six of 'em.
Erm, done some more drumming with the Bad Fucks. New songs being written at a rate of one per practice, pretty much. It's easy enough to do when they all turn out about a minute long. Last practice was recorded on MD; ye gods I'm a bad drummer, but this is exactly what such a band needs. So.
Practice after practice with SON has failed to happen. There was a mix up with the studio last week, (diplomatic silence maintained, moving on) and dealing with one of the aformentioned parents next weekend means next week's has had to be moved to later in the afternoon and that I have to take the bass 250 miles north on a train so I'll have it ready to stop in at 200 miles south again the day after to practice. First gig is at the end of this month so we need the time..
And, went and met two lads in London along with Tina. The singer can sing (shocker) and the guitarist can damn well play, in a tremendously metal style. It's going to take some work to turn the nuclei they have into actual songs and now I find out that Tina has little in the way of song-writing experience. Or perhaps that she expects that to mean the process of coming up with lyrics and basic chords when that's the singer and guitarist's job, if you ask me. I think in terms of the instruments I use and so to me that means throwing those basics up into the air and seeing how we shape them as we play them. I guess that's strictly termed arranging. But you can't call a bunch of chords and lyrics a song without that process and someone has to do it. I think I have a head start just by understanding that the job needs doing...
A sideline - Smoke On The Water. I heard a great version of this on the radio yesterday. For any of you in Brighton the station in question was FIP, a RadioFrance station that some enthusiasts receive from satellite and rebroadcast locally, and its musical eclecticism is worth the effort. The playlist archives reveal fascinating juxtapositions such as Shaggy followed by Simply Red followed by Tchaikovsky, with The Jesus and Mary Chain and RHCP just before the hour and Credence Clearwater Revival and Joe Strummer just after it. I only pick out these in particular because I have little idea who Malouma, Bernard Lavaillers or Jacques Higelin are. Anyway, Smoke on the Water. I set about downloading every version of it I could find hoping to find the one I'm looking for - I've got versions here claiming to be by Hendrix, (badly labelled Deep Purple is all) Nirvana, (a minute's worth of arsing from a live show; the nearest to a recognisable tune in it is a moment of that bassline) Soulfly (mm, tasty growly Max Cavalera vocals. It's bad, man) and Led Zeppelin, (I don't know who that one is but if it's Zeppelin then I'm Robert Plant) but none of these are what I was looking for. It turns out that what I'm looking for is by an act by the name of Senor Coconut.. this is the mellow groovin' Latin version named 'Humo En El Agua' and you will be needing, I assure you, to hear this. Better yet, Senor Coconut's biggest seller to date is an album of covers of Kraftwerk..
Erm, done some more drumming with the Bad Fucks. New songs being written at a rate of one per practice, pretty much. It's easy enough to do when they all turn out about a minute long. Last practice was recorded on MD; ye gods I'm a bad drummer, but this is exactly what such a band needs. So.
Practice after practice with SON has failed to happen. There was a mix up with the studio last week, (diplomatic silence maintained, moving on) and dealing with one of the aformentioned parents next weekend means next week's has had to be moved to later in the afternoon and that I have to take the bass 250 miles north on a train so I'll have it ready to stop in at 200 miles south again the day after to practice. First gig is at the end of this month so we need the time..
And, went and met two lads in London along with Tina. The singer can sing (shocker) and the guitarist can damn well play, in a tremendously metal style. It's going to take some work to turn the nuclei they have into actual songs and now I find out that Tina has little in the way of song-writing experience. Or perhaps that she expects that to mean the process of coming up with lyrics and basic chords when that's the singer and guitarist's job, if you ask me. I think in terms of the instruments I use and so to me that means throwing those basics up into the air and seeing how we shape them as we play them. I guess that's strictly termed arranging. But you can't call a bunch of chords and lyrics a song without that process and someone has to do it. I think I have a head start just by understanding that the job needs doing...
A sideline - Smoke On The Water. I heard a great version of this on the radio yesterday. For any of you in Brighton the station in question was FIP, a RadioFrance station that some enthusiasts receive from satellite and rebroadcast locally, and its musical eclecticism is worth the effort. The playlist archives reveal fascinating juxtapositions such as Shaggy followed by Simply Red followed by Tchaikovsky, with The Jesus and Mary Chain and RHCP just before the hour and Credence Clearwater Revival and Joe Strummer just after it. I only pick out these in particular because I have little idea who Malouma, Bernard Lavaillers or Jacques Higelin are. Anyway, Smoke on the Water. I set about downloading every version of it I could find hoping to find the one I'm looking for - I've got versions here claiming to be by Hendrix, (badly labelled Deep Purple is all) Nirvana, (a minute's worth of arsing from a live show; the nearest to a recognisable tune in it is a moment of that bassline) Soulfly (mm, tasty growly Max Cavalera vocals. It's bad, man) and Led Zeppelin, (I don't know who that one is but if it's Zeppelin then I'm Robert Plant) but none of these are what I was looking for. It turns out that what I'm looking for is by an act by the name of Senor Coconut.. this is the mellow groovin' Latin version named 'Humo En El Agua' and you will be needing, I assure you, to hear this. Better yet, Senor Coconut's biggest seller to date is an album of covers of Kraftwerk..
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Date: 2003-06-05 02:47 pm (UTC)You can find out more at http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/direct/ - see Les Archives De La Programmation (Sur 10 Jours) for the itemised playlists. Damn handy for when you hear something good and want to work out what the hell it was.
Half the musicians in Brighton are builders or decorators to keep the money coming in - FIP is a welcome change from the British radio stations if you're listening to it all day, though only if aren't going to get in trouble if you're found grooving round like an idiot with a power drill..