You are allowed to enjoy this…

New Genesis live boxset arrived in the post today…hmmmm… The Rainbow show in 5.1 sounds spiffing with cornflakes and tea.

Watched a documentary about Stanley Kubrick and how he kept fastidious notes and most of his work in 1000+ cardboard boxes. I look over my shoulder and see the cardboard boxes stacked behind me, then remind myself that I AM NOT STANLEY KUBRICK!

Meanwhile, just received an email from my loss assessor with a spreadsheet containing the final claim for the building work. On a second sheet is the amount that the insurance company is going to pay towards my VAT problem! What?!?! How did this happen? The last time I heard the insurance company weren’t paying…and now all of a sudden they are. They could have been straight at the beginning and saved me a lot of stress.

Why can’t the birthday party carry on today? Little V hasn’t quite grasped the concept that birthdays last for one day only…

Today we are busy celebrating Little Madam’s 2nd birthday. “Birthday cake!” she trills and “I am two!” All very exciting stuff.

Yesterday’s sketch got a slide guitar-style solo (without using a slide) and has been named “The Bruinenberg Technique” after the fellow who suggested the lead guitar style. Thanks Fred!!!

The Missus said: “This angry, aggressive album you are recording…not very aggressive, is it? In fact it is positively mellow…”

Cakewalk Sonar 8.5 has been released today. Huzzah! More software updates for me to waste my cash on. The Missus doesn’t need to know…

The trick is to stop thinking…

Online pal Fred reckoned that yesterday’s sketch required some slide guitar, but my glass slide only ever sounded any good when I used it with the Epiphone Black Beauty I sold a few years back, so instead I used a patch on my VG-99 that sounded a little ethereal like a slide guitar. Then I named the song in Fred’s honour as he helped me finish the tune.

Not sure where this sketch is going. The bass is doing all the work with the delay guitar providing an interesting rhythmic counterpoint but it lacks definition. I could exist “as is” but personally I think it needs a little more spice.