Good run over in showery, cool weather arriving at 4:50pm.
Began with usual warm ups and maintenance:
* Hotel Cal: I tried it on my Fender X11, I wondered why it was so powerful until I found the Roland volume wound right up – need to watch for that or tape it fixed.
* Shine I still haven’t got the chord sequence into fingers but just need to keep playing it.
* Make Those Eyes at Me For – ran thru this several times. Dave’s notes need to show the backing vocal requirements better.
We did a good session on working towards an improved Beatles Medley – we played full length versions of :
* Please Please Me in C – Dave to do answer backs Mog doing the high Macca line.
* She Loves You D worked best. Mog lead. Nige takes the high line, Dave comes in on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs unison and harmony on the last Yeah’s
* Nowhere Man E – we switched this around so Dave sings the lead line, Nige take the Lo line and I take the hi line.
Once we know them the idea is to shorten the individual songs and review the existing medley. I will propose and arrange a hi impact medley.
Then we did a good work out on Something. Dave redid the intro: counting 2 to come in on the drum intro on 3. We simplified the last verse to just Nigel doing the Macca hi harmony on first 3 lines.
More Warm Ups and Maintenance:
* Hippy Hippy Shake, B D D# B Riff in verse. 2 guitar solos - first needs working out.
* Under The Sun, Shortened arrangement
* Spencer Davis – played this pretty well I thought
* Can’t Get Enough - Good’n’tight: Dave to remember accents on final chorus’s
We made a start on Let There Be Drums – following the Sandy Nelson version closely. Mog to write out arrangement. Now we need some ideas to work in some showmanship e.g. a section where Nigel and I join in on some percussion.
Islands in the Stream - Feasibility Test it was a bit hi for the female vocal even in G so we agreed to abandon it.
It was very cold as we packed up, but I got off home in good order munching the Mars bar Jen sent and getting in at 11:40pm
