Geoff Muldaur, La Pomme d'Eve, mardi 31 janvier 2006

Invités : Renaud Pion et Bill Morrissey

Quelques mots sympas de Geoff à propos de son séjour parisien :

From Amsterdam I took the train to Paris and arrived for the opening of the Ed Ruscha show at the Jeu de Paume. My significant squeeze, Mary, is Ed's assistant... so she was already there, settled in a hoity toity hotel room off the Rue de Rivoli; not my usual haunt, but hey, I got used to it. I commenced to schmooze.

The next evening I played a sweet little gig over on the left bank... near the Pantheon at a place called La Pomme d'Eve (the fire marshall on the left bank must be wealthy from looking the other way). Herve Oudet has been running this series for a while and he seems to be in the game for the love of it. We need people like this. My guitar sounded terrific in the club thanks to the quick work of a master guitar repairman named Alain Queguiner. My pickup wasn't putting out like it should have (hey, tell me about it) and Alain performed a little pre-gig surgery and saved my extrémité arrière.... (derriere a vous).

I also had the pleasure of playing La Pomme d'Eve with a wonderful multi-instrumentalist named Renaud Pion. I first met Renaud a few years back at the Harry Smith tribute in London at Royal Festival Hall .... and later in Brooklyn at St. Anne's for a similar show. He plays bass clarinet, bass flute, clarinet in C and, I trust, other rather uncommon woodwinds. We will try to do this again... he plays some cool stuff. I also was joined on C-H-I-C-K-E-N by Bill Morrissey who was in town to play the same venue. Nice to have Bill thumping on that one. That John Hurt material is his meat.

My stay in Paris was made ever so easy by the fact that my old Cambridge friend, James Field (ex Charles River Valley Boy), is living there part of the year with his wife, Pat Buckley. These two guys couldn't stop helping out with translation, shopping, getting the guitar fixed, choosing the best huitres (oysters) et fromage (you know), talking up the gig... it went on and on.