20 nov. 2009

MADNESS AND OLIVIER.. R. IN SERBIA..





Hi !
Second day of the Birthday 3 days-time! With a rare audio version of a very recent gig of Madness in Serbia for the Exit Festival.
Olivier made it possible, I thank him a lot , very kind !!!!!!!!!!Thanks, thanks, thanks !!!!!!!!!!


MADNESS-EXIT FESTIVAL-12.07.2009



Source by Olivier R ! ThAnks once again !
Home made coverart (front and back) by me

Hope you'll enjoy it
Judge Fredd

19 nov. 2009

DAY 1..DEEP DEEP INSIDE... INDEED...



Hello !!!
How are you ?

Well well well, first of all, happy Birthday, Emilie, vocals of Indeed and my wife !!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot for giving me the opportunity to meet the kindest person of the world !



Secondly, this blog is 2 years old now and to celebrate these two birthdays, some local and international stuff during three days !

Begin with : Act local think global ! Act Indeed , think Madness !
The story of a cover...Close friends, wife and I, as a band, as Indeed, as fans of Madness, did our best to do a cover of the Sun and the Rain that JP , boss of the french M.I.S and Jérôme from Big 8 Records liked.

Here is the story of a cover...rewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwind...



2008, a year for a nice project, a tribute to Madness by JP and Jérôme to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Camden cowboys the year after ....
We decided to try to participate and did a first selection of songs to cover : I loved to play "Mad not Mad" and "Blue skinned beast" on piano, Victoria Gardens on acoustic guitar with Emilie on vocals ; Alex, our guitar player did a nice acoustic demo of "Song in Red",.... have a listen to it ICI...,he loves Mad not Mad Mad songs too , Emilie on vocals particulary loves "Lee Thompson songs" and Nico our drummer really loves "Keep Moving" LP .... We all agreed that "the sun and the rain" era was a beloved one by all of us so we plan to do "the sun and the rain" cover !!

On summer and fall 2008, we rehearsed some times and did several takes at home (ours) ... we decided to see what the 12" mix can bring us ! And it did a lot : especially on the Violin line on the chorus that we reproduce on piano! A very loved violin line !!! It helped us doing a cover which is not a copy. And as we hadn't a rehearsal room anymore, at first, we try it at our home ( Emilie and I): upright piano, acoustic guitar , vocals without microphone ... : acoustic , acoustic and acoustic and, at last, as Sir J. Young very nicely said, "Atmospheric...Atmospheric... Changes"

Alex and Nico spent time and time to do a sweet atmosphere with guitar and bongos..
For me, the piano lines came naturally in mind and made us remember late rain drops. The natural atmosphere of the cover let us think about a "after rain" moment
Emilie whistled the synth/violin line with an echo effect.
In fact for this cover, everything came naturally which went well !

On december 2008, we recorded it at Alex home, in his dinner room, playing electronic piano (property of Alex's wife), acoustic, electric guitars an bass, microphone, bongos and cymbals ! A night and a day...

Feb 2009 was a great moment as we knew that we were on the Tribute LP !!!

Here you can have a listen of 2 rough initial demo versions of our cover ( rough live and "intensified" recorded on a USB key at my home) and at last 30 seconds of the final version... which is on the Madness Tribute LP....

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

At the same time, we decided to try "Yesterday's Men " too....
Rough live recording via USB key too

....at last Listen to Suggs telling very nice words about our band at Madstock 2009 !!!! : SUGGS ON INDEED eh eh eh ....


Thanks all the ones for your support about this cover
hOPe you'll enjoy this post !

Judge Fredd

13 nov. 2009

THE BEEF AND LEA


Hzllo !!
Happy Birthday my dear Lea !! 8 years old now !!!
Hope you enjoy it




LOve
Your Godfather

11 nov. 2009

MORE SPECIALS IN NEW YORK...



Hello !
How are you ?
Today a post about the Specials again with another gem from aug 1981 when the setlist was one of the greatest of the music world
It was in New York ! 21 august 1981, two days before Oakville
Another proof of the Specials creativity !





THE SPECIALS IN NY 21.08.1981

(Home made coverfront and back by myself)

Bootleg by Billy and DGK, a big Thanks !!!

Hope you'll enjoy it
Judge Fredd

7 nov. 2009

OAKVILLE



Hi mates !!
August 1981, the Specials were not a unity anymore but on stage they were still a powerful creative force !!
And the gig they played in Oakville / Ontario / Canada on the 23rd of august 1981 was another proof of their energy and creativity!
The songs they played for it were a such nice setlist, like a dream for a Specials fan : a good mixture between a large part of More Specials second LP, some from the first one, the whole Ghost Town EP and the Boiler and even a Rico LP track . Reading the excellent Paul Williams book (at the end , gigography), we can see it's one of their last gigs before the split.



Here is the gig :

THE SPECIALS LIVE IN OAKVILLE 23.08.81

(I did a cover for it with PhotoFiltre Adobe Photoshop is too hard for me)

Hope you'll enjoy it
Judge Fredd

6 nov. 2009

IN THE MADSHOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hi !
How are you ?
Today is another great day !!! tHE tRIBUTe LP can be bought on the Madness Official Site !
INDEED ON THE MADNESS WEB SITE !
WHAT A GREAT DAY !!!


MADNESS OFFICIAL
THE LINK TO BUY THE TRIBUTE
FRENCH M.I.S

Thanks French-MIS, BIG 8 Records, Jamie, Katy and Garry from Madness Management, Madness members, and recordstore.co.uk !!!!!!

aLL the best
Judge Fredd

30 oct. 2009

A DREAM CAME TRUE...




Hi mates !
How are you ?
I'm off in Brittany for a few days !
Breathing, breathing ! Before leaving my hometown last week, I went to La Fnac, biggest musicshop in France and took some pictures of a dream which came true : the Tribute in Shops !!!!!!!! Indeed here, I never thought of this one year ago !!!! Thanks JP and Jérôme and thanks all the ones who bought it and made it last 34 days in the World Music Amazon Top 100 !!!

Special thanks Dicka for the free promo tonight !!!
All the best to you
Judge Fredd