On September 17th 2011 our family, together with close friends and special guests, played over 30 hitsongs from artists like : Eric Clapton, The Doobie Bro’s, CCR, Blondie, Talking Heads, The Eagles, Gary Brooker, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox, Stretch, The Stones and The Beatles.

We’ve been organizing this music-fest for 3 years now, and we had decided to record the show this time.

A week after the show I received the tracks on disk (Alesis HD24) including a IDE to FW (fire port) converter to transfer the tracks to .WAV-files. Exporting took about 4 hours and importing the tracks and setting-up the sessions took about 2 hours.

As of  yesterday I’ve been working on session1 and quickly came to realize I really like the way a live performance is captured. It just breaths energy!

Sure, there are technical issues that need to be addressed, but you can feel the band enjoying playing the songs. I already was able to handpick at least 7 songs from the first session quite easily. Songs which in my opinion qualify for the CD we will be making out of this. Next saturday my dad and I will continue to choose more songs from all sessions and decide which tracks will make it to the album. After that, the mixing will commence.

I’ll keep you guys posted on the progress made with this enjoyable project!

Paul.

Credits:

Vocals : Diana de Visser, Mandy de Visser, Tim [burning down the house] de Visser, Eef de Visser (www.eefjedevisser.com), Tessa de Visser, Rob de Visser (www.zing.nl), Johan Klein Nibbelink, Bas Riet en Cees van Dorst. Drums : Cees van Dorst. Bass : Rob de Visser. Keys : Johan Klein Nibbelink & Ane Mulder. Guitars : Rien Kanaar, Bas Riet & Paul de Visser. Percussion : Tessa de Visser & Eefje de Visser. Special guests : Rockpops, Loes van Bruinessen, Dana Leeuwenburg & Jeffrey Sletering

Sponsor : Jasper Muziek (www.jaspermuziek.nl)