Two fifths of the LC’s go wild for Tori

Well OK the Love Commandos involved were Neil and I and we actually just sat quietly and listened, but Tori Amos commands that kind of respect. She might not be the first female performer you think of when you hear the phrase “rock chick”, but she definitely is one; helped, as always, by bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain.

She is also pretty cool under fire – the batteries, presumably, failed in her wireless, in-ear monitor pack. Not great for any performer, but pretty much a show stopper when you are playing a Bosendorfer with your left hand and a Hammond B-3 with your right whilst singing. The solution? A quick nod to Bassist & drummer to loop the verse while you substitute lyrics (that scan!) to tell the crew that you can’t hear and you need a replacement pack and continue to play & sing (a narrative no less) while a roadie changes the pack, which was discretely, but inaccessibly, hidden under her over dress.

Of course as Neil pointed out he’s never been able to hear anything on stage, and he carries on regardless anyway.

So here’s to you Tori Amos – you’re our honourary Love Commando of the Week.

Tags: Amos, bassist, drummer, female performer, Hammond B-, Jon Evans, Love, Love Commandos, Matt Chamberlain, Neil, pack, performer, rock chick, Tori, Tori Amos

What’s our name again?

Ken was early and spent the time creating some patches on his Pod X3. Richard was late, but already has his patches sorted since he uses stomp boxes.

There was discussion about whether the band name included the definite article (the) or not. The general opinion was that the band is called “Love Commandos” partly because it was taken from the lyric “the psychotronic love commandos”, but mainly because Neil dislikes band names with “The” in their name.

Musically both “Just a Day” and “Burn Baby, Burn” are coming along nicely and should be ready once we have the album ready for release.

There was also discussion about both engaging an agent to manage the gig side of things – since we are clearly useless at organising gigs – and arranging a publishing deal to promote our original songs.

Tags: band, band names, Burn, burn baby burn, commandos, definite article, discussion, gigs, Ken, Love, name, Neil, pod x3, Richard, stomp boxes

Big Brother is Watching Us

Day 24 in the new Love Commandos (web)house and the site now has an XML sitemap registered with all the leading search engines. We are also using Google Analytics to see which parts of the site are the most popular.
We may not watch “Big Brother”, but big brother may be watching us.
What will be most popular? You decide!

Tags: analytics, big brother, Brother, commandos, day, google, Love, search engines, site, sitemap

Rare Love Commandos Footage

Some footage of The Love Commandos recording “Siren” has been posted on the Siren page. The quality isn’t great, but it gives you an idea of how we recorded the basic tracks (click track and all). We then overdubbed tracks where necessary, such as vocal tracks and guitar solos.

Tags: click track, commandos, footage, guitar solos, Love, recording, Siren

Did you know…?

The Urban Dictionary has two definitions for love commando:

1. It’s just another way to reference a man’s penis.
2. A buddy who takes out the ugly chick so you can score the hot chick.

We didn’t think we were either of those, but perhaps the site’s authors know something that we don’t! We’d like to see our role as getting all the “chicks” (and fellas) up and dancing so that everyone can score some hot rock music action.

Tags: chick, commando, hot chick, hot rock, Love, music action, penis, reference, score, ugly chick, urban dictionary, way