Gavin Harrison wrote:The M.I clinic was filmed - but is only available for the students to see from their computer library. The Guitar Center clinic was also filmed (and I just mixed the audio - although it's only overheads + bass drum + snare drum) but generally sounds pretty good. I'm not sure when it will be released - or how much of it will be seen. I think they broadcast it on direct TV first. They did tell me that they had a lot of other "sessions" in the can so it might be a while yet.
Also a film crew came over to Simon Phillip's studio and recorded us rehearsing our duet - that should look and sound pretty good.
cheers
Gavin
Well, geez, Gavin...any special peeks at it for your HOD buddies?!?!?
The rehearsal and the actual performance filmed?!? Love that stuff...can't wait. A friend of mine was on the production crew at the Guitar Center Drum Off...a non drummer who hates these events...but he said it was a real pleasure to be around you and Simon...here is his message to me, after inviting me to go (but I had late meetings at work)...
"I think this was the fourth one of these dealios we've done now and I am more often than not left scratching my empty noggin at the end of the night mostly due to the oddness of drum geek subculture. I'm not a drum aficionado by any stretch of the imagination, Rob (as you probably have guessed)... but I must say I was pleasantly surprised at not only what a class act both those gents are on a personal level but dang it if I didn't sorta enjoy their far too short time onstage..."
This guy is a 40-something punker-type, too...one of those hard-to-penetrate-the-attitude-guys...so you and Simon really made an impression. He didn't care for Steve Smith...his comments were pretty harsh about Smith.
I would like to suggest that Porcupine Tree include some "bonus footage"...interviews, rehearsal/soundcheck/backstage/tour bus hang footage on the next DVD.