Song List/Recording Notes
It must be known than none of the recordings are what you might call high-end. The best sounding songs are the GORZO songs, cause I got lucky and got full rich sound on some of the tunes. The only really 1/2 way decent recording is the LUNATIC LOVE CD, recorded at THE ROGUE, Toronto. But I was playing for the mikes, and even though the sound is more even and the engineering is so much cleaner than what I did on GORZO, the GORZO songs are kinda the stepping off point for future stuff... The GORZO songs are quirky and then some... The volume levels vary drastically. I tried to fix this by normalizing the levels but the resulting sound is not as clean, kinda got dirtied up, so I am not using them. Ya going to have to turn the volume up and down, SORRY!!! To the Wisdom and Billy Balu are really low volume, ya gotta crank them up, but to me they sing sweetly . Let me know ...
Recorded at Greenhouse Studios Vancouver 2004
Janet Panic: vocals
Meghan Engel: electric violin, cello, soproano vocals (Villy Valu)
Jimfre Bacal: guitar, vocals (Villy Valu)
Uncle Harry
Villy Valu
The following songs were recorded summer of 2002 at my apartment in Vancouver using a rented Zoom MRS-1044 CD recorder. These recordings are known as GORZO. The musicians:
Keely Remillard (KR): vocals
Babak Hazrati (BH): bass, electric lead guitar
Jimfre Bacal (JB): acoustic and electric guitars, drums, narration
Da Blues
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass
Breakdown Blues
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass, guitar
Fire Blues
JB:guitars,narration,drums BH:bass
NYC
JB:guitars,narration KR:vox
I Want to Comfort You
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass
Blues Beast
KR:vox JB:guitars,narration,drums BH:bass
Still Standing
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass
Gadget Insert
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass
Blues Beastie
JB:guitars,narration,drums BH:bass
Blues Me
KR:vox JB: guitar,drums BH:bass,guitar
Fatman Farley Agrees
JB:guitars,drums BH:bass,guitar
Bennys Blues
JB:guitars,narration,drums BH:bass,guitar
Billy Balu
JB:vox,guitars,drums
Smiles of Saskatchewan
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass,guitars
Bats in the Attic
JB:narration,guitars,drumSSS
I Got The Blues
KR:vox JB:guitars
Babak Blues
JB:vox,guitars,drums
Galidly Galu
JB:guitars,drums BH:bass,guitar
To The Wisdom
KR:vox JB:guitars,drums BH:bass
I Remain
JB:guitars,narration,drums BH:bass,guitar
Key Love
JB:guitar,drums
The following songs were recorded live in 2000 at the Rogue Studios, Toronto. These are the songs on the Lunatic Love CD. The musicians:
Steve Fyfe: drums
Mark Dunn: electric lead guitar
Roger Ellis: acoustic lead guitar
Ian Carscadden: bass
Lauren Bielski: vocals
jimfre bacal:electric/acoustic rhythm guitar,keyboard,narration
Schizophrenic Waltz
Smiling Oysters
Katherines Room
Living With The Blues
Bizarre Blues in B
Manuels Room
Charlottetown
Uncle Harry Just Wants To Be Happy
Toasters Without Legs
Rainas Story
Ad Nausea
Copycat Blues
Movin' Blues
I Remember
Gods Way
The following songs were recorded in 1999 live in Toronto onto a DAT which got lost. The 3rd generation cassette was transferred to CD, encoded to mp3. The musicians:
Ricardo/Rick Freeman: lead guitar
Paul Gallagher: drums
Ian Carscadden: bass
jimfre bacal: rhythm guitar,narration
Woodstock Blues
Tiger in the House
I Wunt U
Cold Cold Blues
Moving Blues
Billy Von Billy
The following songs were recorded in 1994 live to DAT at Mitch Lazer's recording studio. The musicians:
Jenny B: vox
Eduardo/Ed Buquet: lead guitar
Mishna/Mitch Lazer: drums
Fast Ears/Michael Muscat: bass
jimfre bacal:rhythm guitar
Cold Cold Blues
Blues To Go
The Twiddle
Sad Eyed Blues
Blackbird of Stone
The following songs were recorded live the first time the band heard them. They were recorded in Vancouver in 1994 on a cassette in a ghetto blaster with a built-in mike. The cassette was transferred to CD and then encoded to mp3 format. The magic of the recordings is for me truly amazing! It supports the old adage that room sound dominates the quality of the equipment used to record it. This is due to the amazing warm sound of Mitch Lazer's Mr. Warm and Natural Recording Studio and the incredible performances of the following musicians:
Eduardo/Ed Buquet: sparkling lead guitar
Fast Ears/Michael Muscat: Electric Bass
Mishna/Mitch Lazer: Drums
Jenny B: vox Evil Blues
jimfre bacal: rhythm guitar,narration
Easy Blues
Henrys Blues
Blueso Munduzo
Blueso Mondozo
Skip Blues
Riffola Blues
Evil Blues
Touch the Stars
Rock With the Clock
Blues La Strange
The following songs were recorded live the first time the band heard them directly onto cassette. They were recorded in Montreal 1n 1988 at the home studio of Jim Walls. The musicians:
Jim Rhythm Walls: guitar,drum machine program
Mark Dunn: guitar, drum machine program
Jim Guitar Hunter: bass
jimfre bacal: keyboard,narration
Johny Jupiter
Johny Jupiter Guitar Solo
The following songs were recorded live around 1986 in Vancouver. The songs were transferred from cassette copies (original 1/4" tapes lost) to CD, and then encoded to mp3 format. The musicians:
The band the Pulse,which included:
bass:?
Duncan Fraser: lead guitar
drums:?
keyboards:?
sax:?
Darcia: lead vocals
jimfre bacal: rhythm guitar,narration
A Bit of the Byte
Allavera
The following songs were recorded live during the period of the mid 70's to mid 80's at Andromeda and a few other studios in Vancouver. Without exception all of the songs were transferred from cassette copies of the original 1/4" tapes onto CD, and then encoded to mp3 format. The musicians:
Eduardo/Ed Buquet: lead guitar, bass The Kingsway Step
Jay Johnson: drums
Mitch Lazer: drums Dank Time
Michael Muscat: bass Dank Time
Chris Blades: bass
Patrick Willoughby: keyboard The Kingsway Step
jimfre bacal: rhythm guitar,narration
Sunshine Down Yonder
Pastor Johnson
Everybody Knows But Me
Just a Little Bit Crazy
Dank Time
The Kingsway Step
