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[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the notes, Hugh.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:28:03PM +0200, Hugh Blemings wrote:
> ** With or Without You - U2 **
> 
> Came together ok, need to slow tempo down - might be worth taking the chance 
> to listen to it on You Tube to get a sense of the feel.

I think Tony expressed a desire to play One by U2.  We have a few more miles
on that one practice-wise, though I'd be happy with either/both.

> ** Don't Stop Belevin' - Glee Version **
> 
> Also worked nicely but suggest we standardise on the Glee version (You Tube 
> will find it) rather than the original one by Journey - they only real 
> difference is the Glee version takes out a couple of instrumental bars here 
> and there, this will be no bad thing in respect to audience enjoyment I 
> suspect.  Key of E.

It's a tricky one to sing, and would be well worth doing start to finish a
few times to polish up.

> ** Hallelujia - Leonard Cohen Version **
> 
> Again came together well.

I think we usually do the Jeff Buckley version, which has a slightly
different chord progression and a different rhythm to the vocals.

> What we did in Orlando that seemed to work well was get a Wiki page together 
> with songs, keys and who would like to play what - we can then coalesce this 
> into a set list/running order for Friday night.  

In Brussels and Orlando, we used an Ubuntu One share and an HTML song list
which seemed to work pretty well.  I put some work into ensuring that the
chords and lyrics were reasonably correct and complete for the numbers we
played last time, and we can reuse those for the ones we'd like to play
again.

I've created a skeleton uds-oneiric.html (attached).

Here's the current sharing list:

Shared with luke.yelavich to view/change files on May-13-2010 (waiting to be accepted) 
Shared with akgraner to view/change files on May-12-2010 
Shared with julien.funk to view/change files on May-07-2010 
Shared with surbhi.palande to view files on May-15-2010 (waiting to be accepted) 
Shared with bill.filler to view/change files on May-05-2010 (waiting to be accepted) 
Shared with tony.espy to view/change files on May-05-2010 (waiting to be accepted) 
Shared with pete.graner to view/change files on May-05-2010 
Shared with jono.bacon to view/change files on May-05-2010 (waiting to be accepted) 
Shared with duncan.mcgreggor to view/change files on May-10-2010 
Shared with barry.warsaw to view/change files on May-10-2010 
Shared with brent.fox to view/change files on May-12-2010 (waiting to be accepted) 
Shared with bill.filler to view/change files on May-13-2010 
Shared with dustin.kirkland to view/change files on May-18-2010 
Shared with lee.jones to view/change files on Jul-23-2010 
Shared with hugh.blemings to view/change files on Oct-25-2010 
Shared with allison to view/change files on Oct-29-2010  

If anyone else wants access, just email me and I'll set it up.  I also have
a share where I've collected some recordings which we can listen to for
rehearsal purposes.

-- 
 - mdz