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The Wedding Players
Mar. 5th, 2006 11:28 pmRelief.
Finally got together with my foil today to sort out the songs for the wedding in 2 weeks. After much prevarication, rescheduling, illness, lassitude & just general slackness, we managed to nut out acoustic & thoroughly unplugged arrangements for all 3 of the requested songs, as well as 3 of our own, in the 4 hours available to us & recorded (extremely) rough versions onto CDs for us to practise to (ha ha) during the week. Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer now has Billy Idol's White Wedding sandwiched into the solo section, the INXS uberballad Never Tear Us Apart now has the main riff of the Stones' Waiting On a Friend as a coda (the father of the groom is a Stones fanatic) & Here Comes The Bride swings to a tasteful 3/4 - or possibly 6/8 (depends how you're counting) beat, with an ad-libbed bridge section. The new resonator guitar will get one hell of a workout during this gig... which is a good thing. Exactly how the bride & groom will feel about the addenda & arrangements is... all part of the fun, really.
Coincidentally & possibly inspirationally, I saw Wedding Crashers last night on DVD. Loved it!!! Best wedding movie ever... The Wedding Singer included...
Managed to double-book myself yesterday & miss the bucks night for the impending nuptials - paintball & a BBQ. Feeling guilty, but unbruised & therefore kind of okay about it.
Beyond all that, I spent the other free parts of the weekend catching up with long-lost friends & watching a DVD of David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) live in 2002 a couple of times & felt very inadequate (musically...) indeed.
Finally got together with my foil today to sort out the songs for the wedding in 2 weeks. After much prevarication, rescheduling, illness, lassitude & just general slackness, we managed to nut out acoustic & thoroughly unplugged arrangements for all 3 of the requested songs, as well as 3 of our own, in the 4 hours available to us & recorded (extremely) rough versions onto CDs for us to practise to (ha ha) during the week. Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer now has Billy Idol's White Wedding sandwiched into the solo section, the INXS uberballad Never Tear Us Apart now has the main riff of the Stones' Waiting On a Friend as a coda (the father of the groom is a Stones fanatic) & Here Comes The Bride swings to a tasteful 3/4 - or possibly 6/8 (depends how you're counting) beat, with an ad-libbed bridge section. The new resonator guitar will get one hell of a workout during this gig... which is a good thing. Exactly how the bride & groom will feel about the addenda & arrangements is... all part of the fun, really.
Coincidentally & possibly inspirationally, I saw Wedding Crashers last night on DVD. Loved it!!! Best wedding movie ever... The Wedding Singer included...
Managed to double-book myself yesterday & miss the bucks night for the impending nuptials - paintball & a BBQ. Feeling guilty, but unbruised & therefore kind of okay about it.
Beyond all that, I spent the other free parts of the weekend catching up with long-lost friends & watching a DVD of David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) live in 2002 a couple of times & felt very inadequate (musically...) indeed.
