Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Virginia Man E.P.
Arcade Fire - Various Tracks
Despite yesterday's session, I was up today at 8 and, at 20 past was working on a new E.P. for John and Ali of Impossible Songs...
At John's 50th Birthday party I was unable to play any cover versions at all other than "Louie Louie" so I'd said to John I'd learn a couple and asked him what he thought I should learn...
He'd advised The Velvet Underground and Roxy Music...
By 2:30 pm I had a new CBQ EP containing full band and acoustic versions of "I'm Waiting For The Man" and "Virginia Plain"...
We headed down to Queensferry around 3:30 and, after some traffic jam scenarios, arrived around 4:15...
There was a competition for best home made food and Anne was right in there with her famous pakoras although, in the end, she lost out to some rubbishy caramel shortcake that anyone could've made (it says here...)
I was drinking Diet Coke and Dr Pepper while Anne wired in to the red wine....
We built a bonfire, highlight of the day for me - I used to love setting fires when I was wee...
As the night drew in a guitar was passed around the fire and the gathered musos amongst us took it in turns to regale the percussion playing crowd - a 12 bar blues led by CBQ and John on guitars and Nelson Wright on harmonica got things started...
This was followed by a couple of songs each from Norman Lamont, Tommy Mackay, Impossible Songs, Lindsay Sugden, Nelson Wright and Fiona Thom, highlights probably being Norman's cover of "Tears of a Clown" and Tommy's version of "Sugar Sugar" amended to "Alan Sugar" in honour of "The Apprentice"...
Your correspondent chipped in with "Starting to Worry" but, sensibly, declined a second song, despite having spent six hours earlier in the day recording the two songs on the CD....
I figured having them blasted out over PA in the garden was performance enough...
We left around 11:30 and tried to head home on a quick road but got slightly lost, ending up on a dead end outside the airport...
Eventually made it home around 12:30 and checked the football scores - Queens drew (12 games unbeaten) but are one of three unsafe teams - two games to go and five points clear - they could still go down...
A good day - apart from that...
Highlight of the Day : Fire raising...
1 comment:
The CD is really good by the way as was your leading of whatever 12 bar blues it ws meant to be. Thanks also for starting the fire..
Yeah, the pakora deserved a prize but it was a democratic vote (?)
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