Three Gibsons

Guitar Goofy

Here’s one of the songs I finished today. I started this a day or two before we left for Florida but I never got a chance to add the guitars. I was able to carve out enough time to do it today.

It’s goofy… I own three Gibson guitars. This song used them all. The rhythm guitar is my 1979 ES 335 Pro, the melody/solo coming mostly out of your left speaker is my 2018 SG Standard, and the melody/solo coming mostly out of your right speaker is my 1978 Les Paul Custom.

Silly, but fun.

I took a picture of each guitar too but one of them didn’t make it to Flickr and I don’t know why. It’s on my phone, but my phone is in the other room so you’ll just have to wait.

I Am Done with 63 Minutes to Spare – #RPM2020

I am finished with my 2020 RPM Challenge album with 63 minutes to spare. Kick ass, dudes!

I ended up with 18 songs, seven of which had two mixes. I was going to go with half electric and half acoustic or something, and maybe have the alternate mixes as their own thing. In the end I just listed to each song and put each one onto one of three lists: Good, kinda good, crap. The good list had 13 songs, kinda good had three, and crap had two. I then listened to both mixes of any acoustic songs on the good list and decided which mix I liked better. I was a little surprised that some of the cajon mixes were the better of the two. Last I took the 13 songs on the good list and kinda sorta ordered them from my favorite to my least favorite, and that became the final album.

hearthis.at is being bitchy and won’t let me upload any new songs tonight. The RPM Challenge website is completely down too. The internets are being a jerk. Alonetone, however, is five by five. Here’s a link to the final record:

I Only Believe in Truth

Millennium Kia

Stuff to Do at Home

I forgot to take a card reader to Florida with me so I had to leave all of my pictures on the card until I got home. I’ve sorted through the 1300 or so and weeded it down to maybe 500. I used to use Google’s Picasa application for that because it made it easy to sort through all of the duplicates, but that app won’t run anymore. I used Apple’s Photos and it kinda sucked. Once they were sorted out I started editing them, using filters and the wizard in Photos. Nothing special. I’m about 1/3 through the keepers now. I’d like to finish that today and get them all uploaded into Flickr so I can post some of them here.

It’s not likely to happen though as I still have three songs to finish today. Two need quick lead guitar overdubs, and the other needs all of the guitars, rhythm and lead, and then all three need to be mixed. I have the cover art, but once all the mixes are done I need to decide which songs get dropped and then which of the two mixes of each acoustic song gets dropped.

So much to do and so little sleep to do it on.

Actually, I did get a good night’s sleep last night. I’m just overtired from the last few days combined. I’ll get it all done tonight. Well, I’ll get the music done at least. I can sleep when I’m dead. Or, you know… tomorrow.