Countdown to the Concerts: Zero. P.A. is set up
We’re installed and ready for a run through and sound check. See you tonight if you’re coming….…
Ken
Countdown to the Concerts: 1. Geared up for the stage
At the farewell concert in 1978 there was quite a lot of black and white worn…… we never adopted a dress code: no equivalent to Beatles suits, not even Double Denim and Waistcoats (a popular folk rock dress format). But …
Countdown to the Concerts: 2. Time Flies
The weekend concerts are close. I promised a video of time-related imagery to back-project during the performance one of our new songs: ‘TIme Flies’. So ironic that the song it’s for details the dilemma I’m in “..Time flies when you’re …
Countdown to the Concerts: 3. Memory
Back home after seven solid days in the studio.
It’s Tuesday now and we perform our first concert for 32 years at 7.30pm on Friday……
You’d expect that a week of recording activity means that I now know all my …
Day Seven: ‘First Mix’. A week recording in the Scottish hills.
Form 9am to 6pm Steve toils to get as much down as we can in the allotted week of recording. We’ve got Angela’s all important lead vocals and backing vocals to do, but most of the album is there, ready …
Day Six: ‘Vocals’. A week recording in the Scottish hills.
Today the four men in Caedmon confronted the challenge of singing lead vocals, whilst we wait for Angela’s studio contribution next week. Simon sang lead on ‘Sea Song’ in 1978, and we’ve all sung solo at different times and in …
Day Five: ‘A little bit of psychedelia’. A week recording in the Scottish hills.
The debate about definitions of Acid Folk and whether Caedmon should be in ‘that bag’ continues and some extraordinary descriptions exist in reviews e.g. from ‘Rate Your Music’
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/caedmon/caedmon/ :
‘The greatest of all hippy folk albums, if you ask …
Day Four: ‘Elephant’. A week recording in the Scottish hills.
A mammoth day of pushing through the rhythm tracks:
“Elephant in the Chatroom’: spill the beans, are we all too blind to see?….. a song that emerged from jamming together.
‘Let the Four Winds Blow’: Jim’s song in gospel style. …
Day Three: ‘Still Here’. A week recording in the Scottish hills.
Three tracks laid down on Day Three:
Sam’s ‘Still here’ examines how you prepare your kids to be independent……. and then they are. A touch of ‘Oye como va’ without an obvious Latin feel. There are a few parts left …
Day Two: ‘Old Enough’. A week recording in the Scottish hills.
Almost 32 years now since our farewell concert and album, here we are in the studio again.
Jim’s ‘Old Enough to Know Better’ is in the bag, surprisingly folky compared to its country rock beginnings. Jim drives the thing with …