Instrumental History #6: Chilli Chilli (2001)

After Cobra Kai split in 2000, i returned to recording solo for a few months before writing some material that would best be recorded by a live group, so assembled three old friends to record with me (Alex Lewis - Bass, Tom Shotton - Drums and Adam Mallet - second Guitar). Tom and Alex and I have a long history of short projects together, largely from the days when vocal-orientated msuic was my primary interest, so they seemed a natural choice. Adam i'd been teaching guitar for a few months and this would be his first group outing. I also approached Pete Cooper, a local trumpet and flugelhorn player to join the project and we set about rehearsing the four tunes, 'Num Num', an early version of 'Funf' (later reworked for 'A Buffalo Crossing'), 'Sam and Eggs' and the second of currently three versions of 'Greedo'. In 2001 we recorded the four songs track by track at Tom's house, then at mine and then finally at Pete's studio in London Bridge. Three of the four tunes now appear on the 'EPs and Others' compilation.

Tom, Alex and Adam are now 3/9ths of the rock group 'Do Me Bad Things' (www.domewebthings.com) and Pete currently has his own quintet.