'Impeachment II - The Insurrection' seems destined to return the same, disappointing numbers the first one did. Not that it's either surprising, or really important any more - just another portrait of a Party & probably a system that's more about personal gain & power, than it is about governing a country. The last 4 years only served to reveal to ( Read more... )

Tonight, I went to see the covers band I had to drop out of a couple of months ago. They had a gig at a Pub which is trying to do the right thing by musicians & actually have real ones playing, not some guy with an iPod & headphones who calls himself a DJ... The bass player in the band is a former long-term musical foil/colleague/co-writer who ( Read more... )

In response to a comment about my previous entry, asking to hear some of my music, I posted a response that, after I went to the trouble of finding what I could out there on the web, seemed too much hard work to not share on my main diary... So:

For Pelican Daughters - the band that has recently revived itself, try here. We've been around since 1984 ( Read more... )

A recording session today with a guy I've been making music with since 1983... on & off. So I loaded up Laura with a bunch of assorted instruments, including the Telecaster, the cigar-box guitar, the effect pedals...

And needn't have bothered, as I didn't use the guitars at all today. We started by looping some samples of things we've recorded on ( Read more... )

I can't begin to describe how it feels to be working with somebody on music that I've carried around with me from band to band, from project to session for nearly 30 years... In fact, the piece we worked on today, first saw light as a pop song in 1991. I was never particularly happy with the lyrics & subject matter grafted onto the piece by the 2 ( Read more... )

A better session than expected with the covers band... I was apprehensive about working with the other guitar player, as my previous encounter with him led me to believe he has 'only guitar player' syndrome - which is kind of like only child syndrome, except instead of your toys, you don't want to share guitar parts with anyone else... but he was ( Read more... )

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