of
music pieces from our repertoire. I was a lot into Jazz
(inspired by Oscar Peterson), and Ragtime (Scott Joplin and
others). But we also did play other pieces. We got access for
free to a
professional
sound recording studio, our band was called the Moodmakers. We
were able to have free
access
to this pro recording studio because they had just
acquired a new
mixing
table and needed various sources of sounds and noises in order
to experiment with
all those new glittery switches, sliders, buttons, toggles and
switcheroos... we essentially came in for
over
2 months, once a week, to make noise! We didn't quite know how
much they recorded. Nor did we realize that our guitarist came
back regularly to record extra voices, more guitars, xylophons
and kazoos, and in some cases made extra percussion noises with
his lips and tongue.... I was starting to think he knew how to
speak the language of the Maasai or something similar with those
fascinatingly difficult clickety sounds... in some of the
recordings we turned out sounding like an 8-person orchestra :-)Here's who we were:
- André Haering (guitars (several!), xylophone, vocals, kazoo, several voices... just amazing overal band leader. He was working in a film recording studio next to the sounds recording studio. It's all about being the the right place at the right time, and about having friends.)
-
Christoph Wolf (a longtime childhood friend... on drums,
percussions, and more drums :-) - we had a lot of fun, with
spaghetti nights and Elmer Citro watching Edgar Wallace
movies on TV at 3am (after it was too late to make noise)...
- me
(Philip
Staiger) at
the piano.
And last but certainly not least, the
sound engineer from the studio was Tommi Buser. Thanks Tommi!