Yesterday I mentioned that watching a YouTube video lead me to want to buy a Gibson Firebird.
That was yesterday. Today a YouTube video is leading me to want to buy another Gibson Les Paul.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome (G.A.S.) is a bitch, people. It’s a serious problem.
I said I was hoping to get a little more than just MIDI tracking done for 50/90 today.
Four songs worth of rhythm guitars are done. Hopefully that’s more like four songs and counting for today, but we’ll see. My finger tips are hurting a little.
Day three’s update is identical to day two’s. Three new song ideas. All have MIDI bass and drums and a complete song form. That leaves me with eight songs in the pipeline, all in the same completeness bucket.
I am hoping there will be something more involved in tomorrow’s update. We’ll see. Maybe some guitar tracking?
My city’s 4th of July fireworks show was supposed to happen tonight, even though the 4th of July was two days ago. It was cancelled due to the weather forecast which apparently turned out to be dead wrong. This installment of Haiku for You is brought to you by whichever of our neighbors it is who is lighting off fireworks in their yard at 9:45pm.
Why do I still hear,
These neighborhood fireworks?
The 4th is over!
That Pedal Show on YouTube released a new episode yesterday and it is about 90 minutes exclusively on the Gibson Firebird.
I haven’t quite watched all of it yet, but I’m down to the last few minutes.
Seriously… for the good of society (as well as my bank account) please… whatever you do… don’t let me go near a music store for a few days at least. If I walk into a Guitar Center (or something similar) I am absolutely not going to be able to stop myself and I am 100% walking out of that store with a Firebird.
For the love of all that is good in this universe, don’t let me go into a music store.
I went to the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH today. I am in a phase when I go there once a week on my way to the grocery store.
Today… they gave me free stuff. Not anything that I would ever eat, but still… free stuff.
What does it mean? Did they give free stuff to everyone or am I just suddenly a VIP customer?
I hope they gave free stuff to everyone because I don’t think I want to be a bakery’s VIP customer.
The refrigerator is clean! I say again, the refrigerator is clean!
It was not on our to do list for today at all, but we did it anyway. All of the shelves and drawers have been washed and dried and put back in place. We can actually see through the glass again! Hooray!
Another day with no real instruments being played, but decent progress none the less.
I added three new song ideas. All three have a song form worked out. They are just MIDI bass and drums though two of them also have MIDI guitar guide tracks.
The pipeline now has five songs. All with song form and just MIDI instruments.
On to day three.
My wife just made an astounding observation.
Question: Has anyone ever seen actor John C McGinley and musical genius Weird Al Yankovic in the same room at the same time?
Mr McGinley:
Mr Yankovic:
Seriously… they could be twins. Are they the same guy?
The 1980’s live forever ’round these parts.
Not really, but also kind of really.
Back then we used to go to see most of the big concerts at the Worcester Centum in Worcester, MA. Most bands avoided Boston itself and went about 60 miles to the west to put on their shows at the Centrum. Partly because Boston is tough to get around in a big tractor trailer truck, but also because the only real place to play in the city at that time was the old Boston Garden and Billy Joel said it best when he said even hockey games sound terrible at the Garden.
The Centrum was smaller but easier to get around. Almost all of the big arena bands played there. The stadium bands played the old Foxborough Stadium, but the arena acts went to Worcester.
My first show ever, Triumph was at the Centrum. My first four Rush shows were there. I saw Boston there when they played six sell outs on six consecutive days. I saw the eight man version of Yes there on the Union tour. Absolutely stunning show touring an awful album. I saw a ton of great shows there.
My friends Larry and Mike saw Iron Maiden there in 1988 (I think) when they were touring the Seventh Son album. They asked me if I wanted to go, but I hadn’t caught on to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal thing yet. By the time Maiden returned in 1990 I was fully on board and we all went back to Worcester to see them.
The Worcester Centrum is now called the DCU Center but it’s still the same building. The last thing I saw there was an AHL hockey game back in… 2001? Maybe? I don’t think I’ve been back since.
That changes in November. I just bought tickets for me, Mike, and Larry to go see Iron Maiden once again. It’s going to be freakin’ epic. I saw them that time in 1990, then again on the first tour after Bruce and Adrien rejoined in (I think) 2000, though that show was in Portland, ME. I saw them again at the venue formerly known as Great Woods shortly before the pandemic hit. Was it August 2019? It might have been 2018, but I think it was 2019. And now, come November, I am going to see them yet again at the venue formerly known as the Worcester Centrum, yet again.
Bring on that New Wave of British Heavy Metal one more time, people.
Do you think they’ll play Die With Your Boots On?
I hope they play Die With Your Boots On.
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