Star Band Song Riders

E' quasi passata una settimana, e non ho ancora avuto tempo di scrivere nemmeno due righe su questo blog. E dire che uscito dalle prove mi sarei precipitato immediatamente a fare trabordare un po' del mio entusiasmo anche su queste pagine elettroniche.Ebbene sì! Nonostante la stanchezza ero carico a palla, soprattutto quando abbiamo attaccato con "The Smiths & The Cure", forse perchè avevo portato Chuck (la Gretsch nera) al posto di Clint (l'acustica che solitamente per evitare sbattimenti mi porto fisso alle prove). Pedaliere che, provvidamente, i miei compagni di avventura mi hanno fatto subito spegnere (a loro dire troppe distorsioni, troppi delay) per tornare alla carica con resa centuplicata.

Perchè mi sono divertito? Voltando le spalle a Mic Leffe ("Noooo! Proviamo qualcosa di vecchio...") ci siamo lanciati in due brani nuovi nuovi mai provati dal vivo tutti assieme: "Manga Nurse" e "FIX" (e mi sa che per un po' di prove insisteremo su questi fino a quando non riescono a puntino). Durante la registrazione della demo non me ne ero reso conto... ma "Manga Nurse" è veramente tosta da suonare e cantare contemporaneamente! Meno male che c'è Dendrix che mi dà una mano! (Era in formissima Dendrix! Sarà per l'uscita dell'album di Slash?). "FIX" è un bordello completo. Fuoriesce dal solito canone di canzone con 4 accordi che facciamo di solito e fatico io stesso ancora a ricordarmeli tutti quanti di fila. Ancora deve trovare una sua dimensione.

La serata si è chiusa in 5 minuti di cazzeggio cosmico che però potrebbero aver portato a qualcosa di veramente interessante: ci siamo abbandonati spontaneamente (a dire la verità ha cominciato Denrdix!) ad una versione molto rock di "Stand By Me" in DO, quindi cantanta bassissima, come se la dovesse rifare Brian Ferry, e estemporanei assoli di synth.

Potrebbe portare risultati molto interessanti in una jam al prossimo live :)

Tiny Tide - "The Smiths & The Cure (Number#9 Version)"

Tiny Tide - "Manga Nurse" (Demo)
Tiny Tide - "FIX" (Demo)

PS: Manuel (dopo che gli ho rotto il cazzo per mesi) è stato così gentile da prestarmi una tromba! Ho provato a giocarci un po' alla fine delle prove e Dendrix dice che assomiglio già ad un tiny Louis Armstrong! Speriamo che dia buoni risultati e non mi si rovinino le labbra!

MNNR

I there! "Manga Nurse" has been recieved pretty well quite by... EVERYONE! Someone has even made a fan video collage based on late 90's anime FLCL by Gainax. Check it out :)

The Rainy Room

It has passed really a lot of time since I've written a new song. Since we're still buisy recodring our first ablum "Febrero" (I'm actually buisy with the recording and pre-editing of "Tiny Train" and "A Song For EMI") and a scottish dog with a hat has suddently appeared showing us the way though the world of small indie music business, fan knocked at the door asking for new songs (you don't believe it, uh?) while friends simply wondered if we're still alive! Oyesswaresir!

So now: while I still recorded an complete second album ("TenneT"), caressing the idea to collect come covers gathering them in new work, and conspiring undercover writing stuff for an imaginary fictional band, I also felt the urge to start of writing new original stuff for Tiny Tide.

I came out with a song called "Manga Nurse", where I had the chance to play for the first time with James, my new Stagg Bass. And that's the next question that came in my mind: which was the place for this song? What if another Tiny song would appear? I needed a hub, a place to gather this new stuff. After a talk with my dear friend Marie I decided to put the songs... in a room! All the leaks collected inside four walls, dropped from a room to another. That's how "The Rainy Room" was born. Feel free to come and visit from time to time to check its new songs.

Here's the first one

Tiny Tide - "Manga Nurse"

"Blue eyes, yellow hair

she ain't no natural blond like all the other girls

Tight jeans, bunny hopes

She spins on and on from the edge of the World

Bye bye, so long dispair

Will she treat me fine with lot of love and care

She's my pretty little silly star get ready to get rocked in space

Will she ever come and meet me she's got everything that it takes

Manga Nurse

She walks, here she comes

moves are one-o-one like stop motion shots

Get smile number 3

Got emoticons to show how she feels

Can't see she's not real

Because love is blind and can't lead you here

That's tough to understand

reading right to left to get cause/effect

She speaks in Japanese

She ain't so hard to please

She's into Magazines

with paper hearts on sleeves

She turns me on and on

She burns my credit calls

She's into limousines

She never love for real"

CAN YOU FEEL THE LIGHT! HOPE YOU SEE THE LIGHT!

"Tiny Tide is a pop band out of Cesena, Italy and their name is intended to be a poke at the pretentious "New Wave" label. Even so, The Wildheart EP kicks off withThe Smiths and the Cure, which has a serious new wave sound straight from Bauhaus. Part of it is that Mark Zonda's voice reminds me a bit of Peter Murphy and the bass intro reminds me of Bela Lugosi. "

That's only the beginning of the amazing (and cleaver) review of Jester Jay (check out his blog) on Tiny Tide "WildHeart EP". The interview goes on... here! Enjoy.

Faker than Roswell Alien Autopsy!

M.I.C.

And there came the time when Mic Leffe, our drummer, decided it was the right astral connection between planets and his physical and mental conditions to go and record the last drums parts for "Febrero The Album".

He assured me that we were no more on 1968, and that it would have taken only about an hour to do the trick. We left the studio 3 hours later, still he felt the urge to record another song, not included in the album. (he really loves that song)

So here we are, with our drums, some pictures and a little featurette of the recordings. Enjoy :)

No Bands Go

I know a place where no bands go... desert beach on winter! First summer day of the new year was a sweet excuse to play some songs (and a lot of covers!) in front of the stormy sea with some friends of mine. I even made the trashest video ever made since the invention of the handy-cam, but I put it out form the Tube mainly because nast wind fought with my (few) hairs making me feel like the even worst copy of Pyon-Yang! Still. Some friends of mine watched the video, and liked the 10" of Arcade Fire "No Cars Go" so much, with Pullo hitting a can like an antropomorph hydrophobic dog, that having a day off I was pushed to do this little rushed cover. Here it is, our first attempt to do an Arcade Fire cover.

Tiny Tide - No Cars Go (Arcade Fire Cover)

Dalla Stampa

Grazie a Sonia per avere raccolto l'articolo!

Zeznatic Beach

Playing at Travolta (NRG) was A REAL pleasure. I don't know if I can talk for the others as well, but as for me it was the first time I felt we were treated like real VIP! The (very hudge and cool) venue had nothing to do with the usual garages slash dark clubs slash small rooms where me myself as spectator too use to see my beloved indie artistist and bands, but it was like... being Bono playing at Zoo in Dublin 1993, I suppose. Or something like that. Great guys at the serivce, expensive tecs and equipements (also DJs did tested EACH of the eight amps coming down from the disco ceiling, clearing the sounds with a wash of white noise and testing their frequencies limits seeing at which point glasses could break), a reserved table with dozen of bottles of beer served by waiters with compliments by the landlord, people having to wait for us to begin OUTSIDE the venue with this kind of insane idea of having the audience to come in with us already playing (we opened with "Girls From Ronta", a shame for very brilliant versions of "The Smiths & The Cure" and "Do Mean It's A Mess" that didn't made it to the show). In a word: we were happy, and you could have seen it in the aftershow with Tinies and their closest girls and friends dancing like fools! The only regret not having had the time to check if my guitar was in tune (it was not). Big stuff, cool youngters, we were just fish in an aquarium, still closest fans hadn't too much difficulties to see we were the same indie jerks of always :)

Rock on Tinies!

Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010 Pics

Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Go Ego Go (Lacrosse Cover)
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Beachvolley Fields Forever
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Silver Star
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Needful Things
Tiny Tide | Live @ Travolta 2010: Scrambled Eggs

ONE

First of all I wanna say "Hi!" to Anthony Rochester, that helped me discovering the power of the "Compressor" options on my music editor (Thank you Ant), and Filippo Franchini to having told me that the first mix of the version was better than the enanched one. We love you Frank!

Then. "ONE" is the last song for "TenneT", leavin me wondering if I should put deadlines to the other guys, or just carry on the proper recordings for "TenneT" beside "Febrero" (guess we'll have to talk about it). Anyway! This time i wanna be kinda misterious on the origin of that "one". Let's say that it's always very complicate to write a love song without feeling somehow idiot. But what can you say about love? That's it? There's nothing peculiar to say. You feel great and just like a shit at the same time, and everything's just been told before.

I asked Matt Williams (The Brigadier) a little help with the lyrics, and I changed some bits. The "Eelsian" part was originally talking by a devil cought by the police. Matt made me notice that it didn't make much sense, and I told him that it was a real dream I had. But then I tought about something more coherent (Matt suggested a Priest fighting the Devil)... and I went out with this thing about Bonnie Parker, from Bonnie & Clide. Guess what? Whit all those "Rocky Racoonian" sounds now it's my favorite part of the song. And I used to hate it!

Well then. Thanks to all this people, hope this song will bring you luck and here's demos and lyrics:

Tiny Tide - "ONE"

"Because you are the one

This answer my lover, is all that I'v got

Because you are the one

Who has stolen the other half of my heart

First time we met

Twas a surprise

I wasn't ready for your smile to arrive

I can suppose

You are a star

That's why my baby I'm leargning to fly

Because you are the one

The answer my lover - a sing in the sky

Because you are the one

Who has stolen the other side of my heart

The soul you warm, the body you dress

The air around, and even your scent

It's so divine, I must confess

Still I'm afraid

It could end in a mess

Because you are the one

I'm shaking all over

A quake in the night

Because you are the one

Who has stolen the other side of my heart

As you were brave like Bonnie Parker

It was a crime to run with you

They called the cops

And you got cuffed

But I opened up the door

Without you I was none

Because you are the one

The answer my love? - I look to the sky

Because you are the one

Who has stolen the other half of my heart"