Victorious Combinations

Isabelle and I were both happy to be performing this night, at the British Ex Serviceman's Association on Kingsway.  Despite the reeling news of our close friend  Todd Simko's death we ended up having a rewarding show and really pushed our set into new territory.  This clip is of us improvising an electronic, extended version of our song "All Together" at the B-EX.   Thanks to the fine folks who video'd this for us!  Cheers!

14 Jun 2007 All Together Addendum As I was messing around with the page layout last night I listened to the song a few more times and thought I'd clarify why there was a recorder in the final fade down. That was done on the very first night we wrote this song. We were clowning around and I brought my elementary school recorder out, (more a torture device than a musical instrument) and was determined to show Isabelle it could make a musical noise if you tried really, really hard. Well it would be a stretch to claim the results were all that musical but it certainly qualifies as noise. We were both laughing so bloody hard after I tried to play it we couldn't stop. That's why when the song begins you can hear the laughing: I'd restart the song as soon as it finished in attempt to come up with a better pass, or new idea, but we'd keep hearing that awful recorder at the end and burst out laughing once more. Silly I know, but it still mak...

12 Jun 2007 All Together The song I'm posting tonight is my guilty pleasure song on our album. It was written as a long winded jam out without any regard for simple form or conventional length. I know that sounds lame, but really after working on so many records for so many years and trying to fit all songs into a 3 minute window so they have a fighting chance of getting played on the radio, it's nice to write a song at 5 minutes and not give a fuck. We started this song really early in our writing process. It may have been the second song we started in fact. The guitar part (which Todd insists is "punky" but I never heard it as such) was about the best verson I could do at playing chords with attitude! I guess the crap way I played them makes them sound punky. Hmm.. oh well. Jesse drummed this song. I always wish he'd nailed the kick drum a bit harder which is why when the whole mess kicks in I triggerred a synth kick subt...