after the practice

Alain and I got together Saturday to practice some songs, Nadine could not make it this weekend. My guitar was acting up again, and we determined that it was the guitar not the amp (after I had already rewired the speakers, and changed the tubes), by plugging in the bass. So I rewired the guitar, removed the phase inverting switches, and cleaned up the wiring.

We had met (all three) on Thursday to listen to CDs at Alain's place, and selected some pretty mellow tunes. Surprising given my previous tendencies, grunge, but ten years makes a difference.
We will need to continue this process as our practices progress.

The next step is to meet a drummer, and to find practice space, for regular weekly meetings.

Andrew is helping us remotely, doing electronic production.

This whole thing started with time-lapse recording, Alain putting down bass tracks, me guitar, and then meeting Nadine, and then Andrew getting involved for some of the production aspects, and creative advice.

We have four pieces of original material - to evolve. Randomly named:
- Liege
- Serious bus
- Tordue
- Surprise

Alain's brother was asked to try his hand at lyrics. We will do french music for now, although most of the covers are in english.

Some ideas:

Translate to french literally.
Look at Cowboy Junkies version of Oooh Las Vegas for stylistic inspiration - psychedelic feedback guitar. I tend to favour the Jesus Mary Chain sound anyhow.

The syncopation is also a big plus on anything.

We will achieve some sort of sound soon.