Friday afternoon practice in Melody line.

Tamira's band is without a guitarist and they have a gig on Saturday, so against my better judgement I agreed to learn a setlist of 13 songs in a matter of days. Today was our first/last proper practice before the gig. The set was as follows:

You can leave your hat on (Joe Cocker et. al.)
Somebody to love(Jefferson Airplane)
Don't speak(No Doubt)
Celebrity Skin(Hole)
Zombie(The Cranberries)
Sex on Fire(Kings of leon)
I alone(Live)
Breed(Nirvana)
Stuck in the Middle with you(Stealer's Wheel)
the Dark(Anouk)
Pretty Fly for a white Guy(The Offspring)
Tubthumping(Chumbawumba)
Song 2(Blur)
Radar Love(Golden earing)

Not a bad set. I'm still struggling with a few of them - but Lorenzo is a very good supporitng Bass Player and he's doing a great job of filling in the blanks.

Day 6 - recording with Tamira - Drums!!!

Despite advice against it from almost eveyrone I mentioned it to, I decided that since Tamira can play the drums we should take a go at putting drums on at least some of the tracks. Drums are notoriously difficult to record have them sound good, but in line with the "lo-fi/let's just do what we can" nature of all my music endeavours we decided to rent a studio for 3 hours at Melody line and see what we could get out of a beaten up old drum kit. 

Tamira kept it simple didn't make any mistakes and we managed to reocrd her drumming 2 takes on 4 of the tracks.... who knows what it will sound like mixed.