News, January 2005 I start 2005 with a reduced workload, but from an economic standpoint, it is not exactly the workload reduction, what I thought. Because of irreconcilable differences, I am no longer a member of the Edsel.
I think that the beginning of the end for me was the Rideau Carleton gig that we played in September. Once we played a song - I forget which - and I began my solo instrument with the wrong tone to a fault. Suddenly - in the middle of the show - the bass player came up to me and caused me to change the tone of a sheet metal.
Although he has not put forward a valid argument - after all, we wanted a leader, that our game would remain faithful to the original recording - I was disgusted with the guitarist. If you make an error in one game, one never stops to correct them because the public will then know that the error was made. As far as know it can be the errors are a deliberate change, the song more interesting and more to make the interpretation of the musician. And who is to say that the former interpretation of the song is a little properly than others? If this interpretation the audience do not like it, then we leave it to us come to tell us that. I was with our bassist Sun bothered that I was hard to stay enthusiastic about that night.
Ideally, such mistakes are prevented in our sample, and to some extent it was but I remember our last half a dozen samples, in which we querläsen our song set list - we said, "Come Go With Me 'is okay ... With Breaking Up is Hard to Do 'we have no worries ... I Got You Babe' is fine ... "and so on. Looking round, they were really made
ready? Maybe there was a song between them, for which I was subject to make such an error in a show, if we do not now corrected the error in the sample. But if there was such a song, I do not remember that we ever rehearsed the song so to prevent the errors.
You can make an argument that these errors were something about which I was working at home, but there are two things you should consider. First it is a thing with a recording to practice, but another thing to rehearse with the band, with which to work. No matter how closely you stick to a recording, the musicians with whom you work, always have different influences and different games and improvisational manner, as the musicians who worked on the original recordings. Man rehearsing, not to play with a recording, but with the band. You can not drag an excellent game, if you do not stop at the sample material, which one is accustomed. This is the same basic reason why John Travolta insisted that his famous dance number in the film
Saturday Night for the song "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees did, as he had tried, rather than an other song, when the time came to shoot the real dance number.
Secondly, I did not have much time, but durchzuproben the material in order to correct such errors. In contrast to the other band members, I do not have a regular working day, and no individual band ever paid me enough to let me make my living. They are just never big enough. Which means that I must venture on multiple projects that I have to accept more skilled work, and that I need to set multiple customers. This of course means a greater workload. The only thing in this area that I regret is that the Edsel did not see all the work I had to do in the other projects, do so of their vast extent than could recognize what it was.
The Edsels also made objections to my occasional lack of flexibility. For example, our Silvesterabendgigs were in Chesterville - a Village, about 60 km southeast of Ottawa - and that meant I had to help in the afternoon to set up the equipment that I then had to travel back to Ottawa to play the 16.30-fair (this is my work, and in the Roman Catholic Church is January 1, applied towards the fair, a day of obligation), and that I had to go back to Chesterville to play the gig. Theoretically, I could skip this show, but that would mean that I would lose money as a result. So, since the other band members have jobs for a living, the money I make per show, can not seem them much money be. But for me it makes 17% of the absolute minimum that I'm usually in a month. I can occasionally afford to lose this money, but not always - do not forget that my involvement comes in two other bands that those bands would have the occasional gig, I would also make it necessary to sacrifice a fair. When Edsels I could not prove a favor, they should be made me more time to market, to allow me to provide for other measures to exchange, for example, with another musician gigs, which he called to arrange for that he for me 16:30 for- Fair represent, and then I could for represented to him the other night.
In any case, this is a big part of the policy position of the band, and although I can understand their thinking - after all, I did not grow up with much of the material that the band plays, and my musical background is always an improvised nature - I make strong objections to the way in which they dealt with my release.
How did you well remember from my last newsletter had the Edsel, which many functions were aware that I exercise, brought in another keyboard player, so that he could represent for me, in the event that I could not play one of their gigs . After a guitarist for the band, he called me at the end of September to tell me that I was Dismiss. I remember that I am with him leads an informal conversation was, but I can not get the details of this conversation in mind, but his statement that the band had not forgotten me - and when he told me that I was Dismiss He had to have it say across, because I noticed it's not obvious. And my work load, which was because of my work for my friend in Chesterville recently increased, and my involvement with Harmonia I had given little time to think about much. At the time of writing, the Edsel did not except my photos from their website, and also in a chance encounter with the drummer of the band early in November - that's how I got out about the cancellation of the Gananoque gigs - got I never felt that the second keyboard player ever was to be something more than my deputy. That is why I continue to believe that I had committed myself to three bands instead of two.
The drummer said that the next gig Edsel, who was on the calendar at this time - a gig on the 18th December, who had been posted in the middle of summer and for me I had become quite sure about the date - was still ongoing. Currently, he said that it was calling me in the next two weeks. After the end of two weeks, I began me to worry. For more than two months I was out of the band, and when I was still involved with the band, now was the time to bring me more fully on the level of attention. The Gigdatum came and went, and had still not called me.
The gig then as far as I knew, was on New Year's Eve, again at the Chesterville Legion Building. As Vijay Agard, the main singer of Stone Soul Picnic, offered me a chance to play with him a Silvesterabendsgig at the National Arts Centre, I could not give him an honest answer immediately. Then it occurred to me that, even if the Edsels this gig on the 18th play of December, they would not necessarily during the Christmas holidays rehearse twice to refresh only for their own Silvesterabendsgig. And by the time of the gig, I was in the band for three
been months - and two samples were not enough. So I called the Stone Soul Picnic-back singer and agreed to play his gig instead. When I finally learned
just after Christmas on my Edsels-release, I felt that they had lied to me. I note, would feel like the Edsel, that they had always been honest with me, and it appears that they were so honest in their own way. But here is a classic example of the truth of the old maxim: "Clarity is power." If one is not entirely clear to someone who runs is the risk that they will believe anything other than you want to believe they will. I can never bring to mind that one of the Edsel came to me and said, "We feel that the time has come to fire up" - especially in September, because if they would inform each other honest with me and would be the drummer, while our chance encounter, ever say anything different about my birth in the band.
It would be an understatement to say that I hurt and the Edsels'm really angry, because of the way in which they worked around this. Do not get me wrong - I I consider that they are a good band and so on, and I wish them every success. But from now on they are on their own, individually and collectively, because I do not think I will ever feel good to work again with any, for any one, or by any of them.
In Traderjob I look into the idea to bring this Site to a betriebsichereren server. When I read the page here on mywebpage.netscape.com (one domain name that is above all a lot to say) take a close look, I see that some of the files do not always. The Netscape software is sometimes that they can not find a particular file, even if it is still there (Instead, of course, the French and German translations of it - I still have not time to work on that). And if I run into this problem, probably you will come out well. I decide yet whether I will move this site to rogers.com, or if I'll get my own domain name and they'll move there. see In the meantime, if you have a "Can not find the file" message for the English version of this page, click the constantly "re-loaded" switch on, but because the file is there.
