It's Dead!

Right. Today's tune is an unusual one. Probably the second time this has ever had a studio recording.

The Jabadaw Tune Book (Jabadaw) - It's Dead But It Won't Lie Down (Played on almost everything!)

Jabadaw were a rather excellent Ceilidh band from Manchester who I have the priviledge to have met on a few occasions. Their extremely talented sax/mandolin player Simon Dew persuaded me to buy their tunebook in Sidmouth folk festival 2006. I haven't really played much from this but I've tried to give this one a go:

I recorded this in Cubase just now and played 2 electric guitar parts, a bass part, a melodeon taking the main theme, accoustic guitar, mandolin, and banjo, and a badly programmed drum synth.
My melodeon being my (second) worst instrument, the performance is again a little shaky, despite the fact that I've played it as slowly as possible. This is compounded by the fact that it has F naturals which require me to visit the half row accidentals on this diatonic instrument, which is pretty much uncharted territory for me. I tried to give it a really simple but heavy feel with the C tuned electric guitars to make it turn out like Glorystrokes, but it's ended up a sounding a bit like early Whapweasel.
Not a bad thing I suppose.
I forgot to mention I had a jam/recording session with the drummer in Electrickery last night. We jammed some pretty cool riffs trying to be like my favourite band Meshuggah or the excellent Hella. Then jammed some Slayer and other assoted thrash goodies, then laid down the drum tracks to an Electrickery tune "Burning Bush" from this album that's taking us forever to record.

I have another rehearsal for Iolanthe to go to this afternoon and I haven't eaten yet today, so time to address that now.