Journal, News, Guests by Jim Fitting
moi aussie?
I love so many things French: the wine, the food, the wine...
But the language is something I have absolutely no aptitude for. It does sound great though, especially when whispered by the new wife of prime minister Sarkozy.
But the Music, forget it! Le Sessione Francoise is not gonna happen. Last month on French TV they were running tributes to Johnny Halliday almost nonstop ( and he isn't even dead yet!).
It makes you appreciate The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull...which brings me to last week. It was inevitable, this "Session Brittanica" thing. It gained momentum like a snowball rolling downhill into hell. An avalanche of fun perhaps? I don't know, we were just trying to carve some turns before the powder of a Radiohead tune or two caught us up.
Unit 4 plus 2? Yeah it's Tuesday night at the Lizard and that's the name of the band Dennis Brennan says we are covering. Just give us an excuse and we are gone... talk about out there; John Powhida warbles Me Myself I (Joan Armatrading? who? oh yeah). Katie sings Girls Talk and Dave does Donovan. We are in the bloody basement of hip, top of the pops baby! John Biseline was filling in for the missing K.K. on bass and killing on Hi 'n Dry when he pulled up the singing chair. I only had a tambourine when Chis and Kyle started Idiotech, but by the end I could have used a coffee grinder and it would've sounded good with what Pappas was brewing...
Laura Cortese was working the Cure with her fiddle, and Dinty says life is complicated. Tell me about it. Rose said she was gonna do She's a Rainbow (which we have played 25 times before but the lyrics are so subtle that we usually call it something like la la la...) Anyhow I'm thinking she's taking us back to Her Satanic Majestie's Request and thinking wow heavy duty! Luckily we had Phil Aiken sitting in to show us the piano riff on that song we never played. He sounded even better on Ooh La La (mic or no mic).
But let's talk about Exile, Bill Janovitz and the Rolling Stones, mate. I mean he even wrote a book: "The single greatest rock'n roll record of all time, okay?" JPo is Letting it Loose on the high notes and Phil sounds like Nicky Hopkins taking us to church for a moment or two. And all I can think is: "Thank you folks for allowing us to do this"...
Also a special thank you to Matt Malikowski back there behind the desk.
What's next? A session down under? NOT!
But the language is something I have absolutely no aptitude for. It does sound great though, especially when whispered by the new wife of prime minister Sarkozy.
But the Music, forget it! Le Sessione Francoise is not gonna happen. Last month on French TV they were running tributes to Johnny Halliday almost nonstop ( and he isn't even dead yet!).
It makes you appreciate The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull...which brings me to last week. It was inevitable, this "Session Brittanica" thing. It gained momentum like a snowball rolling downhill into hell. An avalanche of fun perhaps? I don't know, we were just trying to carve some turns before the powder of a Radiohead tune or two caught us up.
Unit 4 plus 2? Yeah it's Tuesday night at the Lizard and that's the name of the band Dennis Brennan says we are covering. Just give us an excuse and we are gone... talk about out there; John Powhida warbles Me Myself I (Joan Armatrading? who? oh yeah). Katie sings Girls Talk and Dave does Donovan. We are in the bloody basement of hip, top of the pops baby! John Biseline was filling in for the missing K.K. on bass and killing on Hi 'n Dry when he pulled up the singing chair. I only had a tambourine when Chis and Kyle started Idiotech, but by the end I could have used a coffee grinder and it would've sounded good with what Pappas was brewing...
Laura Cortese was working the Cure with her fiddle, and Dinty says life is complicated. Tell me about it. Rose said she was gonna do She's a Rainbow (which we have played 25 times before but the lyrics are so subtle that we usually call it something like la la la...) Anyhow I'm thinking she's taking us back to Her Satanic Majestie's Request and thinking wow heavy duty! Luckily we had Phil Aiken sitting in to show us the piano riff on that song we never played. He sounded even better on Ooh La La (mic or no mic).
But let's talk about Exile, Bill Janovitz and the Rolling Stones, mate. I mean he even wrote a book: "The single greatest rock'n roll record of all time, okay?" JPo is Letting it Loose on the high notes and Phil sounds like Nicky Hopkins taking us to church for a moment or two. And all I can think is: "Thank you folks for allowing us to do this"...
Also a special thank you to Matt Malikowski back there behind the desk.
What's next? A session down under? NOT!
