You are allowed to enjoy this…

Not really sure what this is or what this is supposed to be. Came from a bass line and drum and the idea was to have bass, rhythm guitar and lead guitar and not much else. About space, ambience and it sounding like there’s more going on than there actually is. Not sure if I like it. But then I feel like that about most of the stuff I am recording at the moment…meh…

Today, received an estimated electricity bill from British Gas Business for £3462.62. They apparently can’t grasp the concept of the meter in question being disconnected from 19 October 2008 to 22 July 2009. This is one of the many reasons we are taking our business elsewhere.

Tomorrow everyone comes back from their holidays and the fun regarding the VAT payments restarts. I might just try ignoring it all to see if this goes away as well…

“30-08-09 Sketch” has now been re-tooled and re-titled “The Cobolt Blues” and a suitably Michael Brook-ish lead guitar has been splurged over said track to complete the rip-off. I have no shame as I remember that all art is theft, and besides I really like Michael Brook.

Now it has been rumoured that Ant and Dec may have shared some man-love when they lived together but for some poor sub-editor on the Express, it was a Freudian-slip too far. This actually appeared in the weekend’s first editions and I don’t think any other headline will be able to top it for the remaining months of 2009.

This is a short musical sketch I recorded in two passes – the first was the rhythm guitar and drums, the second pass is the bass guitar. I was more just jamming with myself than trying to compose something – so you are getting a look at how ideas sometimes come about. The key to music is the notion of play. You have to play – and by that I mean play around – to get ideas. Ideas don’t just appear out of the ether unless you are one of those lucky ones.
Anyway, this features some delay guitar and an atmosphere I’ve been meaning to visit for a long time. I visit the same stamping grounds as David Gilmour and Michael Brook, but in this instance the bass is a little too busy at the rear end of the track. Development and refinement is in order.
Enjoy!

Lots of different dreams merged into one. Owned a different shop near the seaside, dealt with shoplifter, then walked Alex forever and ever, though green pastures, up hill and down dale. Lost my shoes. Got lost. But then we methodically retraced our steps back home.

Do I let events define me, or do I define the events around me?