Recently:
Been plugging away, trying to finish a piece of work from the Editor-From-Hell. Nearly there. But his phone-calls are the writing equivalent of standing at a urinal in a public toilet, trying to pee, when a stranger walks up and occupies the urinal directly next door to you. Yup – I can’t pee with an audience and I can’t write when the editor is yapping at my heels for no good reason. Ho hum.
On Friday, my old recording chum Andrew O sent me an email after almost a year of silence. He has a new job. Well done, I congratulate. He wants to hear the music I am currently working on. I oblige and send him some stuff. He returns the favour. His ideas are roughly recorded and, as usual, I suggest that he should really invest in some guitar effect units to smooth his guitar sound out instead of just recording his guitar directly into his PC. He says he isn’t interested in the final product, only the ideas that are recorded. He ripostes saying he likes some of the new stuff but prefers my “less-guitary” material. This leaves me non-plussed as I use the guitar primarily. He ends the statement with a non-committal “no offence”. Well that makes it OK, I guess.
At the weekend, patchy sunshine, booze, Internet poker and more booze.
I also received a vinyl copy of Islands courtesy of my good friends at eBay. This was the first time I had heard this LP in its natural format. It was very interesting to hear. It sounded a lot more closed that Lizard and seemed quite claustrophobic. On occasions I could hear some weird strange bass frequencies that whooshed around like the wind. I can’t imagine what KC fans must have made of it this after hearing Lizard and ITWOP.

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