We’ve all had 3 hours of sleep or less, it was me, Brian Beller on bass and Evan Francis playing flute.
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Then came Sunday (laughs) After 3 hours of sleep we had to get up and go to the TV station to be on this show and first thing that happens is, you have to sit on a couch for 50 minutes before you do anything. The audience was great, everything was just great and Groningen was just magic. We were all very inspired after working a week with the Dutch guys and very just. The ‘Beer For Dolphins’ show, most of us agree, was the best show we’ve ever done. And that was fantastic because it allowed us a really precious opportunity to come to a new part of the world, where we’ve never played before and demonstrate in two nights, two very different sides of what we do. ‘Well, actually on Saturday, the night after the ‘Nonkertompf ‘ live show there was a ‘Beer For Dolphins’ show also in Groningen. :: After that gig there was a gig for Dutch radio in Amsterdam.
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I would ask myself that question with every choiceI had to make and whatever the answer was, I went with it, because I didn’t have any time to question myself (laughs) So it’s a very kind of a free form, very natural, sort of a funky performance piece, because it doesn’t sound super contrived and thought-over a million times. I said, ‘OK, you come on too!’ (laughs) And gradually, I put a pile of arrangments together and when I was actually doing the writing, I was just thinking about what do I think would be fun to hear. So I just let, 21, 22 of the titles jump out at me, I didn’t question why. So I would look at the back of the album cover and see a song title and first thing I would do is like see, do I wanna bother arranging the song, cause I couldn’t do all 35. I just had to kind of go with the first idea that I had with all of these things. ‘Since I had to work really fast I didn’t have time to sort of imagine all the possibilities. :: Did you have to change some of your tunes in a drastic way to fit the different format? As soon as I got home and started relaxing, after the G3 tour, all the music arrived really, really quickly.’ I never actually got around to doing the writing, I did a lot of thinking and my intention was to do a lot of writing, but it just never came out. I started thinking a lot about the pieces while I was on the G3 tour. ‘No, actually most of the arrangments for this were written on my couch in my living room. :: Did I understand correctly that you wrote all the arrangements during the Vai tour?
So we just crawled along for four days and it happened and it worked and it was cool. But not all the pieces had charts though, so some pieces had to be described.and all the musicians were very familiar with that kind of discipline, it doesn’t have to be just a thing on a page and that tells you what to do, they’re all open to any number of working methods. ‘Everyone had their own folder of charts, and that helped. That must help in a situation like this when there’s not too much time. We came a long way very quickly, we had four days of rehearsal to learn 90 minutes of music and it went very, very well. And then Ruben van Roon, on sounds and textures and effects and grooves, the mixture of all these personalities together was really inspiring for everyone. Oene van Geel, the violinist, comes almost from a French, Jazz, violin style but with a lot of other influences, really, really wonderful. Jan Willem van der Ham is respected I think in both improvisation and sort of modern classical world. Bart Van Lier on the trombone, the first time I’ve ever heard of him, but I know he’s a very well known, well respected trombonist. That were recommended to us by Ko and by his co-producer and the people they found were really incredible. So seven of the eleven were us and the other four were Dutch musicians. Seven of those were easy to figure out because ‘Beer For Dolphins’ had already been playing some of the material of Nonkertompf live and I was excited about the opportunity to work with my band on an extended project like this. But he wanted me to score it for eleven pieces. We were asked by Co De Kloet of NPS radio to do a live performance of ‘Nonkertompf’ which initially as you know was an album that I played all the instruments on. (grabs sheet music) Here’s all the songs that we did (shows binder with tidy looking charts) It was a really special evening. It was about 90 minutes long, based on many different themes from Nonkertompf.
‘We played 24 selections from that album. What tunes of that album did you guys play? The first night was the ‘Nonkertompf live’ album, are you familiar with that album?’ I wanted to be there really badly but couldn’t make it. I met Mike the 24th of October 2001 in Amstelveen for a chat after two special performances he had just done with his band in Groningen and Amsterdam.
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