Schaltkreis Wassermann, Formentera, Sept. 26th 2009
Last summer we had become friends with drummer Pierre Alain Jost of Benidrums and we wanted to play together. As he was the drummer for most of the bands at the “Guitarras de Formentera” festival he invited us to play there.
The festival was centered around the beautiful guitars of Ecki Hoffmann who organised it – with my Fender Stratocaster and my Roland VG-99 virtual guitar processor I felt a bit like the devil’s advocate.
It was a great gig in the middle of the pittoresque San Fernando village although the stage monitoring wasn’t set up well for us. My guitar was way too loud in our monitors so I constantly had to fight with a howling feedback. Still we felt quite easy at playing and improvised a lot which I like most.
It was very nice to play with Pierre Alain. He adds an extra dimension of percussive variety and power to our already quite massive backing tracks. I had been mixing them anew from ground up in the last few weeks to make them even more danceable without losing those ethereal parts that some people love most in our music.
We won quite some fans who came after the show to congratulate us! Not bad for the Formentera audience that is often called orthodox or even dogmatic and that is very much into blues, rock and those eternal seventies hymns by Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones etc. that everybody keeps playing in the balearic ex-hippie scene. . .
Unfortunately the next morning the sky was cloudy and rain was expected. So we said goodbye to the wonderful beaches of Formentera and headed back to our Ibiza headquarters.
