{"id":3172,"date":"2022-09-17T07:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T07:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/the-marcoeur-episode\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:19:58","slug":"the-marcoeur-episode","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/the-marcoeur-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"the Marcoeur episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"l-section height_medium\">\n<div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\">\n<p>as mentioned the Marcoeur episode started towards the end of the previous century and was \u2013 luckily \u2013 only to last until 2005\u2026<br \/>\nSo, after Hubert decided the project and its music being too far off his beef, he politely declined the offer and I recommended a replacement with Julien Baillod from Neuch\u00e2tel. Since I was continuously heading with my whole equipment to Burgundy to rehearse by car, I picked up Julien on the way. Rehearsal after rehearsal a tight repertoire for Marcoeur\u2019s live sextet took place and resulted in the recordings of the album \u201eL&#8217;\u201c for Marcoeur\u2019s own label.<br \/>\nAlbert and Claude Marcoeur, Eric Thomas and Julien (guitars), Farid Kenfouf (bass) and me (replacing the 3rd brother G\u00e9rard), multi frutti as usual were well received and we toured until early summer 2005. Then Albert came here and announced that my collaboration ended here and now, because, because\u2026 many obnoxious \u201earguments\u201c were brought forth, as silly as me not \u201eplaying my instrument enough\u201c\u2026 how was I to play with Lasse (Hollmer) if I didn\u2019t play my instrument enough?!!!!\u2026 or that he\u2019d hear \u201ethe same mistakes all the time\u201c etc. etc\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I was totally taken aback by such fallatious allegations and \u2013 shock frozen \u2013 was foolish enough to hand over all the sampling I done for them!\u2026<br \/>\nI brought in the sampler (a Kurzweil K2000) and was even forced to buy a \u201espear\u201c unit (another Kurzweil K2600) as well as a 32 channel mixing desk. Luckily I always took the latter with me, but left the mixing desk and the K2000 there. It took over a year until they deposited the mixing desk in Neuch\u00e2tel (for their convenience and for me to recoupe it there). For the K2000, they put a shabby backshish in the case with the mixing desk. The schedule for the following year (everything already booked) was to bypass me for G\u00e9rald sitting in the warm net of finely tuned working setup with the K2000 including my samples. It bypassed the first time I\u2019d have recouped something for the investments (some 3000 Euros or more)\u2026<br \/>\nEnd of story.<br \/>\nA few months later my mother died and left mayhem between my brothers and sister which took another 5 years to \u201esort out\u201c\u2026 after which I started a long and tedious \u201ereconvalescence\u201c of the soul\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; as mentioned the Marcoeur episode started towards the end of the previous century and was \u2013 luckily \u2013 only to last until 2005\u2026 So, after Hubert decided the project and its music being too far off his beef, he politely declined the offer and I recommended a replacement with Julien Baillod from Neuch\u00e2tel. Since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3172\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mensch3000.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}