I had a productive Saturday. It was nice.
Two weeks ago we bought a new car. The dealership we went to was just across the state line in New Hampshire so we were able to get a temporary license plate (Massachusetts doesn’t do that) and today they finally came through with our MA registration. I drove over to the dealer and had the real plates put on and then went to a shop to get a state inspection sticker. Did the two week old car pass the inspection? You better believe she did!
Outside of that it was a crazy music day. Eight songs got vocal tracks this morning. Eight! My throat is killing me. I could be getting sick, but I think it was from all the yelling into a microphone. Eight songs in one morning is a TON for me. Later, three of those songs got lead guitar tracks and… gasp… alto saxophone tracks.
It has been a really long time since the saxophone came out of its case. I talk all the time about feeling rusty on guitar. That’s nuts compared to the sax. What’s 100000 times rustier than rusty? That’s how I am on the sax.
There was a time in my past when I was a pretty good sax player. I was a music major in college my first go-round and sax was actually my instrument. I played guitar outside of school but in school I was all sax. Now? Sweet christmas do I suck. I mean I SUCK suck. I am really terrible. What’s worse, I can only play for a few minutes before every woodwind related muscle in my body just goes limp and I can’t play at all anymore. It takes me quite a while to recover. One, maybe two hours at least. It’s just crazy how I’ve let myself go.
All 10 songs in this month’s album in a month project will have at least a little saxophone. Three down and seven to go. I hope to get some more down tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
