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May 04, 2006
HORSE WHISPERER
I remember Jon (Clayden) complaining about not wanting to sing every song in rehearsals when we were working on Dohney. And I can remember wondering what the big deal was .... why he would limit himself to one run through of the set in any one rehearsal. I can tell you that I now have a newfound respect for Jon, and singers in general!! I don't have a bad voice - in fact its pretty good for certain things (including what Circus Diablo do) - but I sit here this morning, throat sore, voice shot, and realize that I have learnt something. I learnt that I will only do one run through of the set in any one rehearsal!! Yesterday we played the same four songs about forty times, over the course of 8 hours, with a bunch of different drummers and I TOTALLY get it now Jon!! Its a tough thing to do - I started the day singing great, and eight hours later, I was croaking my way through the last one thinking .... I have GOT to stop smoking!! Maybe this will be the catalyst for me. This morning I sound a little hoarse, so I'll be whispering for most of the day. Hmmm .... A Hoarse Whisperer!!! But it was so great to actually get in a rehearsal room and play the songs. No decisions have been made yet, and the process continues. You'll be the first to know.
Todays V-Blog is pure and simple. Thanks to all of you lot who helped me out, it is the Spike TV performance of Cheap Trick's Surrender, by Camp Freddy. Big respect to everyone who helped, and I hope that it is now a slightly higher res version of what has already been up on the web. Either way, I wanted it on my site - I got it on my site!! Enjoy. Its encoded slightly differently to get a higher res than usual. If people have problems with the MPeg4 thing, let me know.
Questions: -
Peebs - I dont think the acoustic track will be surrounded by security. All I plan on doing is having an area of the site that is only available to people who have registered for the Community and thats where I'll put the song. To be honest, with what we are now talking about with the Circus Diablo site (there are some new developments and ideas floating around right now) it wont make any difference anyway. So maybe it'll just be up there for all. Don't know yet.
RedPill - Email me a clip of your soundtrack thing, or FTP it and send me the details. Of course I'll give it a listen.
Jay - As always, a great question. Without giving too much away, we have so far had six guys come in, some of whom have done some stuff, some of whom havent. And we knew them all, either by word of mouth, or by a referal, or because they are friends. And the process is pretty simple. Send em four songs and have them come down and jam with us. I have to say its a tough call because so far, every drummer has been great!!
Jezzi - We are actually discussing CFR as we speak. Dave will be out over the summer, as he has both The Panic Channel and the new Rock Star to deal with, so we are working out alternative plans. Matt (Sorum) and Donovan and myself will be meeting with the 'Man' at Indie to see what we all wanna do. We know we will be continuing - we just need to get the schedules sorted out.
Daniel - Yes Sir. You are in fact, correct!! Rob did marry us in The Sunset Marquis Hotel - he was invested on the Internet, and performed a beautiful wedding ceremony for us. If that guy ever decides he's done with selling millions of records, he has a whole other career out there for him!! It was great, and Jen and I had a blast doing it. Regarding the 'Meet The Parents' thing .... I have to say that considering my In-Laws were presented with a world wide magazine front page declaring that some UK Pop Star had performed a marriage ceremony with their daughter and some tattooed freak from London ....... they have been nothing short of amazing!! I felt a little like Ben Stiller when I first met them, but I have been welcomed into their family with open arms.
OK - I am off to watch the Tivo (LOST and INVASION) - I fell asleep VERY early after all that work yesterday! Today we have a 'Band Meeting' - you know, one of those proper ones where we sit for hours with the management and discuss the plan. So more answers will come your way shortly. Enjoy the Camp Freddy video and I will be back at the weekend. New Camp Freddy site launch is VERY close. Days away. In fact....... ITS LIVE NOW!!! A year after the last update (in true CF style!!) we finally have the new CAMP FREDDY WEBSITE launched. Again, it will get tweaked as we go along, but at least we are back in business. CLICK HERE TO VIEW WWW.CAMPFREDDY.NET. Hope everyone has a great day.
Peace
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at May 4, 2006 06:59 AM
Comments
"Matt (Sorum) and Donovan and myself will be meeting with the 'Man' at Indie to see what we all wanna do."
Ok that line made me chuckle! Don't let the man get you down ;-)
I know Mary Beth and I can be available at resonable notice to fill in :-D
Hot water with lemon and honey for sore horse throats. Tastes like hot nasty lemonade but works!
Posted by: Peebs at May 4, 2006 08:40 AM
Thanks Billy! It looks like a whole new video. Now I gotta watch it another 40 times and yet again get nothing done today.
Posted by: beth at May 4, 2006 09:01 AM
Look at you offering my services without even consulting me Peebs! (Not like I wouldn't do it in a second providing that I'm not ON TRIAL! which I may very well be a few times this summer/fall!)
Billy...maybe you can get KIEFER to fill in as a guest host over the summer while he's on hiatus...and what about Scotty? He's a core member now and of course Chris! (never gets any lovin that boy!)
Is Camp Freddy playing the AVN thing in June or are you just doing a live broadcast?
Good luck with the throat.....no talking...that just makes it worse!
And my great-grandma's remedy was gargling with warm salt water....but don't swallow it otherwise it's like drinking the ocean (but I'm sure you've had your share of that during your scuba excursions!)
Posted by: MB at May 4, 2006 09:15 AM
Good luck if you do decide to try to quit smoking... my boyfriend tried and lasted about 4 days. If you do figure out a way to do it.. please do share!
Posted by: Twisted Angel at May 4, 2006 09:39 AM
You cheeky monkey adding the new Camp Freddy link after I answered....LOOKS TOTALLY AWESOME! Love the pic of Scott on the front! mmmm mmmm mmmm
Btw-there's a community over there. VERY cool. Like I don't aldready have enough to divert my attention from work ;-) It says I'm already registered. How did that happen? Did my alter ego do it for me without me knowing?
Posted by: Peebs at May 4, 2006 10:21 AM
Yes I too am apparently already registered at the Camp Freddy community forum! But I don't have a way of getting in...no activation email! What's a girl to do....or are we being banned for bad behavior over on the CD community?? ;-)
Posted by: MB at May 4, 2006 11:49 AM
WE ARE WORKING ON IT AS WE SPEAK. WE WILL CLEAR THE CODE AND I WILL LET YOU ALL KNOW WHEN ITS SAFE TO REGISTER.
BY THE WAY - CHECK OUT THE FIRST OFFICIAL PIC OF THE SIX OF US - TOP NEWS ITEM ON THE CF HOME PAGE.
GOTTA DASH. LATER.
B
Posted by: BILLY MORRISON at May 4, 2006 11:56 AM
OK. ACCORDING TO WEB GURU MAN, IT SHOULD BE FIXED. TRY REGISTERING AGAIN.
BILLY
Posted by: BILLY MORRISON at May 4, 2006 12:13 PM
Ok it worked! Thanks Billy!
Very nice official picture there of all you boys...and of course Billy with the mischevious smirk!
Posted by: MB at May 4, 2006 12:20 PM
Thank Billy! All registered!
I love all the pic's ;-)
Posted by: Peebs at May 4, 2006 12:28 PM
Registered! YES! Should have read the previous comments before I started clicking through the error message but hey... it posted.
Posted by: Kate at May 4, 2006 03:29 PM
Hi Billy...hate to trouble you but, I registered at the CFR sight, got my email and validated my membership but now, when I try to sign in it says my password is invalid.
Of course, I used the same one I always use but it's not accepting it and I don't see any link on the site for assitance with that issue. Is there a way to reset the password, or have the system email me whatever it thinks my password is? Or perhaps I should just sign up all over again using a different user name.
Anyway...sorry to be a pain in the ass...if you have any advice, I'd appreciate it! :D
Posted by: Cori at May 4, 2006 03:32 PM
The Camp Freddy Surrender Video was great! Thank you for that, Billy et. al. :)
sore throat..i just chug the honey straight down out of one of those plastic teddies.amen for honey. and licorice too. yeah amen for that too.
off to check on the Camp Freddy website.
hugs
Lisa
xxxx
Posted by: ylais at May 4, 2006 04:22 PM
addendum: hoarse voices are sexy
Posted by: ylais at May 4, 2006 04:23 PM
over at the CF site looking at all the pics. and i got caught up in rating them. some scamp has voted 1 for them all. was that done on purpose?
well..i rated one of dave n and billy m just now and got this: Rating 6.66 [6 Votes] :D
i was going along merrily looking and rating, giving some 10's and then i got to one that i wanted to give an 11. then a 12.
love the website design. i like the cut out images of CF members on each page on the left side. very cool.
hugs
Lisa
xxxx
Posted by: ylais at May 4, 2006 05:15 PM
fixative (o_o) :it was of dave and billy duffy.
Posted by: ylais at May 4, 2006 05:17 PM
I'm with you on that Lisa.. one of my favorite bits on the new CF site are the solo pics of the band members as you click through pages. GREAT job!
Posted by: Kate at May 4, 2006 07:54 PM
FIGURES IM THE ONLY ONE HAVIN PROBLEMS WITH THE NEW VBLOG......I DOWNLOADED IT.......IT PLAYED AUDIO ONLY WITH REALPLAYER......AND WHEN I TRIED USING QUICKTIME LIKE I DO WITH THE OTHER VBLOGS....THE VIDEO WOULD PLAY SLOW N CHOPPY AND THEN LOCK UP MY PROCESSORS THOUGHT PROCESS.......I TRIED UPDATING MY PLAYERS/CODECS.....NOTHIN WURKIN......ANYONE GOT ANY SUGGESTIONS....OR PERHAPS BILLY HAS A DIFFERENT FORMAT OF THE VIDEO AVAILABLE OTHER THAN MPEG4?....OR MEBBE IM USING THE WRONG PLAYER?.......HELP PLEEZE.....
Posted by: UncleCreepy13 at May 4, 2006 11:50 PM
I seem to be having the same problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Posted by: Christina at May 5, 2006 12:54 AM
Uncle Creepy I was having problems so I downloaded the Quicktime Version 7. That worked!
Posted by: Peebs at May 5, 2006 02:44 AM
DANKX PEEBZ I'LL GIVE THAT A TRY
Posted by: UncleCreepy13 at May 5, 2006 11:36 AM
WELL PEEBS I TRIED YOUR SUGGESTION AND STILL NOGO.....I EMAILED BILLY ABOUT IT ....SO SIT TIGHT CHRISTINA & ANYONE ELSE HAVING PROBLEMS VIEWING THE MPEG4 CF VBLOG....BILLY WILL GET US ALL SORTED OUT INNA COUPLE DAYZ HE SAID TO SAY THIS: Gimme a day or two and I'll put up a usual version of the thing - I was just trying to get it higher res - but do me a favor - post on the blog that I am gonna fix it. Rushing out the door to do CFR.
DANKX BILLY....MUCHLY APPRECIATED......
Posted by: UncleCreepy13 at May 6, 2006 05:24 PM
Thanks Uncle Creepy for the update.
Posted by: Christina at May 7, 2006 01:13 AM