Songfight NYC v2

[glennny]

Yes everyone, please continue to post set lists. i will begin the long task of posting videos to You Tube and Vimeo later this week.
In retrospect i wish I talked more about all of the songs we did, all of my clips come in slightly after the 1 2 3 4
I just wanted to play more songs in the 25minutes i was allotted.
Sorry for all the mistakes and lyrical jumbling. The & Friends did a great job learning those songs without rehearsing with me until the day of the show.

good fun!

[roymond]

Well, despite the torn calf muscle I had a great time, but no one ate the cheese (I'm looking at you, BJam.) I am now walking with a cane and have lots of cheese to last the 3 - 4 weeks of recovery.

There was some fine playing. Some of the best vocals I've heard from JB. Glenny and friends are quite amazing live. And Ben and Brian were insanely entertaining. Thanks for coming so far Caravan Ray! Good to meet J$ and having his songs engraved in my mind. Sorry to Frankie for being so late (due to said torn calf) and not being able to visit. I especially miss having met Brick Pig, possibly the reason I got into Songfight in the first place. Next time?

[drë]

wow, I've been out of the loop here.
seems like you all had a great time.
thanks for the pics, looking forward to some recordings ?

[roymond]

-Elaine's acapella song in the park was awesome. I had never heard your stuff before, and it was really good!

Sweet indeed!

[ElaineDiMasi]

-Elaine's acapella song in the park

[jb]

There are now 58 pictures in the set. I think that's about it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnorama/ ... 479130724/

[jimtyrrell]

Hope I did this right... followed JB's lead and set up a Flickr account.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35835622@N ... 519700628/

I've got a few more photos from the Sidewalk Cafe but they're pretty dark. I'll work on 'em.

[Spud]

Too bad you had to keep Bjam in that cage when she wasn't performing. We had to do the same thing with the Suzies in Seattle when they were underage.

[nyjm]

Well, despite the torn calf muscle I had a great time, but no one ate the cheese (I'm looking at you, BJam.) I am now walking with a cane and have lots of cheese to last the 3 - 4 weeks of recovery.

I think Roy should get a Song Fight Purple Heart - injured in the line of music-making! (Well, you know, getting us cups... but then he did THREE different sets that day!)

[Eric Y.]

Odd to see that of all the pictures posted so far, I seem to be in none of them

well, in everyone else's defense, you aren't always all that visible

[Caravan Ray]

Here are a few photos from Penny's camera from the park (before she and Harri went to the zoo). Have some more from my camera I will upload later. I forgot to take my camera to the pub.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/28865678@N ... 467577673/

[Niveous]

Some more show pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56361321@N ... 557502254/

[drë]

Here are a few photos from Penny's camera from the park (before she and Harri went to the zoo). Have some more from my camera I will upload later. I forgot to take my camera to the pub.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/28865678@N ... 467577673/

Ray, i didn’t know you and your wife were expecting a second child!
On another note, there’s something slightly disturbing about this pic... just can’t put my finger on it.

[glennny]

Those whom post their sets last will have their videos uploaded last.

I'm talking to you X Tokyo River Gods

[Niveous]

XTRG set:

Ellis Island
Rhymes with Lucia
Courage
Don't Think I Don't Miss You
Don't Break My Heart, George Lucas
Tomorrow Never Knows

[j$]

OK so I've uploaded the best of the pics I took to my website (I could not get my head round flickr) hopefully the names of the files are self-explanatory (pp.. for prospect park, sidewalk... for evening show, followed by band names in each case). I think they're around 4MB each.

http://www.johnnycashpoint.com/photos/sfnymay09/

The photos of Dollar Bill taken by Bjam and the best of those already put up here have been transferred to my facebook account. So if anybody wants to be FB pals then the link is here. Come get some!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6 ... cb051c4d7f

[gush]Back in London and still missing the experience. I had a whale of a time, everybody was lovely, so many highlights (including playing with TRG and DB&tIP, obviously) inclduing, but not limited to -

Hearing FBF do 'The Thing Most Easily Forgotten', and meeting Mrs FBF

Niveous playing 'Bridget' (VIYH upload that session, damn it!), your friends at the Sidewalk Cafe seemed really lovely. Thanks so much for organising this it was a blast.

Noah's awesome acoustic set, and top pocket theramin playing

Caravan Ray doing 'Pictures of Natalie Portman (though I missed the Brokeback Mountain song) Also lovely lovely family you got there, mr R!

Elaine's a capella and general friendliness and enthusiasm putting this shy gay punk with a ukulele to shame, at least

Crabs on Banjos (correct name?) 'Hiroshama I Love you' stands out - did anyone get the name of the piano player who's doing a song a day? Was it Brian Speaker? i want to check his stuff out further. Also Ben for being top sound man and overseer. 'nice.'

Jim Tyrrell doing 'Red Zero' and the 'Half Empty / Half Full' duet with CR. Don't forget our Tyrrell Corporation SF agreement!

JB, just about everything, especially 'Black Hole' and ace inter-show banter. Also for co-hosting SF with Spud so that such a crazy-good idea could have ever been organised in the first place!

Bjam's lovely voice with its midatalantic twang belting out Tom Jones & Robbie Williams. You better get back songfightin' again - like i said, you should collaborate with Starfinger, get you both back in the game!

Glennny & Friends' 'Dead Presidents' - had the chorus of that stuck in my head all week!

Playing with Roymond before and after what shall always be known as 'the ankle incident' was an honour. That man learnt DB basslines better than me in about 10 minutes flat, and I wrote the damn things! Also 'Diamonds' was soooo pretty.

Meeting Ujnhunter was great - and apologies for having no time to speak to you before you had to dash for your train.

Brick Pig, were you the silver-haired gentleman who came up and said 'wish you'd played Pickle Juice'? if so, sorry for looking vaguely confused - I am not used to requests apart from 'shut up already'

Finally Bill & NIv, thanks again. Lo and behold you are both twice as amazing as i thought you'd be, and I thought you were both pretty amazing beforehand! You both dealt with me honking (either vocally or on keyboards) over our songs very well!

if I have forgotten anybody, it's only because I am stupid not because I didn't like everybody. I did.

[/gush]

j$

[glennny]

I've started to upload everything. Everything is compressed from the beautiful HD to a far better than Youtube mp4. It takes about an hour to upload each 3:30 song. I have 37 to do, I'm about 3 deep so far.

I think this link might take you to all of Glen Phillips' uploaded videos (which is all live song fight stuff)
http://www.vimeo.com/user1047039/videos/sort:date

Someone let me know if that works for them?

Otherwise- Tedious One by One:

Glennny & Friends- Ich Bin Color
http://www.vimeo.com/4774272

Dollar Bill & the InkPoints- Sorry To Inform You
http://www.vimeo.com/4773566

Crabs On Banjo- Hiroshima I Love You
http://www.vimeo.com/4768681

Caravan Ray- Don't Break My Heart Again George Lucus
http://www.vimeo.com/4768118

I'll try to filter them on in a spread out fashion so X - Tokyo doesn't have to wait for 30 hours.

[Caravan Ray]

awesome Glenny - awesome!

[jack]

very cool! thanks for sharing these, and to everyone that shared pics too thanks!

sounds like a pretty fun time. did brick pig play?

and j$, i wish i could have made it to meet you but maybe someday.

just shows how cool a place songfight really is to have guys from london and new zealand make the effort. makes me wish i'd gone just to document the whole thing on video.

viva la songfight.

[glennny]

Can I get a Bronze for California?

[jack]

Can I get a Bronze for California?

well, considering you're an hour away from me, and you made the trip and i didn't, you get well earned kudos and songfight cred points.

[glennny]

I think I was talking to J$ and Noah about this version of TNK:
http://www.last.fm/music/Phil+Manzanera ... ws)+(Live)