Category: Rehearsals

The Last Sunday?

Observations	[audio:42observations.mp3]	3:37
Roadblock	[audio:43roadblock.mp3]	3:58
Fall Off The Planet	[audio:44fall.mp3]	3:19
Everybody	[audio:45everybody.mp3]	4:11
Soho	[audio:46soho.mp3]	5:32
Chaos	[audio:47chaos.mp3]	4:27
Adios	[audio:48adios.mp3]	3:12
Zero	[audio:49zero.mp3]	4:18
Something Special	[audio:50something.mp3]	5:09

Kitchen session and Kieran and Jean’s.

Observations	[audio:32observations.mp3]	3:56
Roadblock	[audio:33roadblock.mp3]	4:20
Fall Off The Planet	[audio:34fallofftheplanet.mp3]	3:57
Everybody	[audio:35everybody.mp3]	5:19
Soho	[audio:36soho.mp3]	5:55
Chaos	[audio:37chaos.mp3]	4:38
Adios	[audio:38adios.mp3]	4:38
Zero	[audio:39zero.mp3]	4:38
Something Special	[audio:40special.mp3]	5:05
Something Instrumental with jam	[audio:41special.mp3]	4:37

Here is what was captured from the Brigit’s Day session.

Observations	[audio:20observations.mp3]	3:14
Roadblock	[audio:21roadblock.mp3]	3:17
Fall Off The Planet #1	[audio:22fallofftheplanet.mp3]	3:58
Everybody	[audio:23everybody.mp3]	5:04
Soho	[audio:24soho.mp3]	4:57
Chaos #1 (’til broken string)	[audio:25chaos.mp3]	1:40
Chaos #2 (with another guitar)	[audio:26chaos.mp3]	4:10
Adios	[audio:27adios.mp3]	4:19
Zero #1	[audio:28zero.mp3]	4:31
Fall Off The Planet #2	[audio:29fallofftheplanet.mp3]	3:57
Zero #2	[audio:30zero.mp3]	4:32
Chaos #3	[audio:31chaos.mp3]	4:36

Here are the best pickings from the “Christmas Cake sessions”…without the marzipan.

Observations #1	[audio:12observations.mp3]	2:59
Observations #2	[audio:13observations.mp3]	2:47
Chaos #1	[audio:14chaos.mp3]	4:48
Chaos #2	[audio:15chaos.mp3]	3:54
Adios	[audio:16adios.mp3]	3:15
Everybody (2nd half)	[audio:17everybody.mp3]	2:07
Observations #3	[audio:18observations.mp3]	3:19
Roadblock	[audio:19roadblock.mp3]	3:42

It looks like we missed out on recording “Observations” and “Everybody…”.

Here are rough cuts of the ones we did capture:

Chaos and calm	[audio:01chaos.mp3]	4:30
Zero #1	[audio:02zero.mp3]	4:30
Zero #2	[audio:03zero.mp3]	4:23
Callisto	[audio:04callisto.mp3]	3:25
Adios #1	[audio:05adios.mp3]	2:41
Adios #2	[audio:06adios.mp3]	4:28
Roadblock #1	[audio:07roadblock.mp3]	3:23
Roadblock #2	[audio:08roadblock.mp3]	3:22
Soho #1	[audio:09soho.mp3]	4:46
Soho #2	[audio:10soho.mp3]	5:28
Soho #3	[audio:11soho.mp3]	5:10

Verse chords: Bm A G Bm
Chorus chords: G D Bm A

[audio:http://www.mulvenna.org/gerry/mp3/everybody%20has%20their%20part.mp3]

I was just a fourteen-year-old boy when Bobby died
Afraid to go to school that day, I was shocked and dazed inside
Fearful of the future in a sad and wounded land
The meaning of the sacrifice, I could not understand

(more…)

4 chords all the way through: Em / Gadd9 / Cmaj7 / Am7 /

Is there a roadblock in my brain?
Secret harbour of some pain?
See the little soldier(s) standing in the way,
Red light circling just like the bad old days
Asking all the questions ’bout the things they need to know
Like: “where have you been?”, “where d’ya wanna go?”
Is there a roadblock in my brain?

(more…)

Song	Gerry	Kieran	Nigel	Steve
1. Observations	Lead (Bass)	Vocals, guitar	Guitar (chords)	Lead (High)
2. Roadblock	Vocals, guitar	Sax or Whistle	Guitar (Bass Lead)	Djembe
3. Fall Off The Planet	Lead (bass)	Djembe & Tambourine	Guitar (chords)	Vocals, guitar
4. Everybody	Vocals, guitar	Sax	Guitar	Djembe
5. Soho	Guitar (chords) & Harmonica (D)	Sax	Vocals, guitar	Djembe
6. Chaos & Calm	Harmonica (G)	Vocals, guitar	Guitar (chords)	Djembe
7. Adios	Lead Gtr	Piano	Guitar (chords)	Vocals, guitar
8. Zero	Lead Gtr	Shaker	Vocals, guitar	Djembe

I have installed the Audio Player plugin for WordPress, so we can embed MP3 audio in blog articles. Here are a couple of tracks from our “Rehearsal #2”. Just edit this article to see how it’s done.

[audio:9crimes.mp3] 9 Crimes
[audio:special.mp3] Something Special

The tricky bit is that there are complications on uploading large audio files to the correct directory on the server – it is best done using FTP.