tag:reverbnation.com,2007:blog-17939 2007-07-01T11:37:06-04:00 Friends - The Band http://www.reverbnation.com/images/logos/reverbnation100x65white.gif tag:reverbnation.com,2007:blog-17939.post-23084 2007-07-01T11:37:06-04:00 2007-07-01T11:37:06-04:00 As I may have related elsewhere in the notes, we were getting pressed for time towards the late Spring of 2002. <br/>I had already mapped out the song from a previous demo version, and recorded with a twelve-string guitar, drum machine and voice. Tim added the clarinet part, with Matthew also in attendance. However, a few days later, Matthew felt that his time commitments would not allow him to work further on the song. <br/> <br/>I can remember taking the piece to Roderick, and sitting in a chair with my eyes closed, listening to him getting to grips with the piece. It was all coming together….. <br/> <br/>Suddenly, to my surprise, Rodderick stops, and says he can’t do the piece justice and we need to have someone classically trained to play the piece…. <br/> <br/>Well, that was unexpected. But Tim had trained as a classical pianist, so I suggested he had a go. <br/> <br/>I managed to borrow a keyboard for him to try with, but without success. <br/> <br/>We both thought of Lonnie. So I rang him and organised a session for the following Tuesday. <br/> <br/>Well, Lonnie laid down two piano tracks, and also a strings/wash backing. <br/> <br/>It was then that I played him the Look At My Son piece which I had just re-recorded the vocals on the previous Saturday night. At the time, this had a rhythm guitar riff played on my Shergold. Lonnie loved the piece, and as we were all set up to record, I mixed out the guitar part, and let him play. <br/> <br/>He just did the whole thing live as it happenened without even hearing it. There wasn’t time, it was during my lunch-hour from work…. <br/> <br/>Anyway, we kept the Look At My Son piano. The next day, Tim organised a session with Dean and Bunmi, and they put the brass and backing vocals on. <br/> <br/>I can remember sitting in Tim’s lounge after work that day and listening to a song that had been utterly transformed within about twenty-six hours. The thought that accompanied the prophetic picture of the areas surrounding Afghanistan of ‘if someone had told you of the speed of this transformation, you wouldn’t have believed it’ came to me again. <br/> <br/>Because of the urgency of the session with Lonnie, (he was due to travel abroad within a few days), it was felt that the piano sound on Your Faithfulness was not sufficiently good. <br/> <br/>So Tim organised an afternoon session at someone from his church’s house who had a keyboard Tim felt he stood a better chance with. That’s the version that has been used. https://www.reverbnation.com/rss/blog_comments23084 tag:reverbnation.com,2007:blog-17939.post-23083 2007-07-01T11:32:17-04:00 2007-07-01T11:32:17-04:00 Your Faithfulness - Notes <br/> <br/>This is another song where the prophecy speaks. It came as a surprise. <br/> <br/>Back in the mid-nineties, I was going through very tough times. I was going to St Albans Vineyard church. As with many other churches, they meet up as a whole on Sundays, but split into smaller groups to meet in people’s houses during the week. So I was part of a Housegroup. <br/> <br/>Actually, to start with I went along to two housegroups, one which met on Tuesdays and the other which met on Thursdays. At the first of these I related my story to the group leader, but to the other group it occurred to me that I should say nothing, and let them feed back to me. <br/> <br/>The groups majored on two things, worshipping God and prayer for eachother. So in the second group, when we split up to pray for one another, I ended up in a group of five, with two other men and two women. We prayed for eachother in turn. When they came to pray for me, the first man said <br/> <br/>‘I have the word “hidden” ’. <br/> <br/>And the second one said <br/> <br/>‘God is going to ask you to take certain steps of faith with Him’. <br/> <br/>So here was God, telling me He was here, comforting and instructing me. There’s no way the first one could have known ‘hidden’ except God told him and he listened. This is prophecy, listening to God and then passing it on… <br/> <br/>Soon after, the set-up of the Tuesday group changed and I didn’t continue with it. God had shown me where He was going to work with me…. <br/> <br/>Some months later, another guy who was out on the edge started coming to group. After a while, he went back to living on the streets and I’ve never seen him since, though I often wonder about him and pray for him… <br/> <br/>Adversity kind of threw us together a bit, and we’d eat lunch together after church, and spend Sunday afternoon together. One day I came out with the chord progression for this song. Later in the day, this other guy, who was worried about his spiritual state came out with ‘I know I’ve got the Spirit Of God’ and ‘For Instance, that tune you were playing earlier was annointed’… <br/> <br/>I’d thought it was special, but the fact that he recognised it too re-enforced the idea. <br/> <br/>I don’t remember the writing of the words, but this recording of the song was pretty eventful… <br/> <br/>We've broken the limit for the size allowed, so I'll tell the next bit in the next blog... https://www.reverbnation.com/rss/blog_comments23083