On the road with Jim and Julian - Day One
Posted on March 9, 2010 with 0 comments
And so it begins........... It's been a while since we played together. This is the third tour by the band, and I'm confident it'll be as much fun as ever. This is a wonderful group to play with, very open and loose. I think Jim, Julian and I have quite different musical personalities, at least in the details of how we play - but we have a shared love of spontaneity and musical exploration. And I think it's this combination of a shared broad philosophy allied to a difference in approach that makes the trio so creative.
Usually we only have 4 or 5 actual tunes to play and we often don't even discuss what order to play them in, or even if we'll play any of them - walking on the stage knowing anything is possible is very liberating.
So Jim and Julian arrived today and we had a pre-tour dinner, a lot of catching up and a typical musician's discussion of what's going on, what we'd like to see going on and what we hate to see going on! I'm slightly older than the other two but we're broadly of the same generation so we listened to a lot of the same stuff growing up and in our early musical years, so that makes for an interesting conversation always - who of our heroes is doing good stuff still, and who's not - and NO, I'm not going to name names! Our musical ranting and highly opinionated discussions will remain between us and that window table in the Baan Thai restuarant in Sandyford.
Tomorrow we do a workshop at the school in Newpark, then it's on to Limerick for the first gig - let's see if the magic is still there - if tonight's conversation is anything to go by, I think it should be fun........