We are all going to be going out for a little while this afternoon so that cats are resting up to prepare for having the house to themselves. They are planning on zooming around like insane crazy felines and beating the ever loving hell out of each other. You know, like cats do.
I put rhythm guitars onto five more songs this morning. My schedule is all topsy turvy and I’m not sure if I will be able to do anything more today, but five songs worth of guitar tracks is a nice haul for the morning.
I am actually out of songs that need rhythm guitars now. I still have two that need leads, but we’ll be getting to those soon enough. I want to write some lyrics tonight so that I can have at least five songs ready for a car vocals in the morning.
We are about to witness a brutally violent game of Queen of the Mountain, aren’t we.
Yup. Lily just jumped Robin and knocked her off of her perch.
Such violence.
Day 37 (yesterday) wasn’t bad for a weekday. I’ve had better, but it was okay. I put rhythm guitars onto two songs and leads onto one. I also wrote lyrics and melodies for two songs.
I’m hoping for good progress today, but there are a lot of non-musical things on the books so we’ll see how it goes.
Look at Miss Robin. She is willing us to go to bed so she can have the living room to herself. Piss off, humans!
The ice cream maker,
Is doing it’s thing right now.
Homemade stuff is cool.
We had a visitor in the back yard.
I opened the window so I could take a picture and the cats came-a-runnin’.
It is Friday, at last. Every single day this week has tried to trick me into thinking it was Friday (there must be something wrong with my brain’s calendar function) but this time it’s real. This time it actually is Friday.
Insert the sound of an emphatic sigh of relief here.
The weekend is one 8.5 hour work day away. The best part? My step daughter is coming over tonight! She’s going to a work conference tomorrow and is stopping here on the way to it. We haven’t seen her in ages. I’m really looking forward to her visit.
Musically speaking? I played some guitar before work this morning. 50/90 progress. I put rhythm guitars on two songs and leads on one. I took a bunch of pictures with my Nikon. I had the 28mm lens on it for all but one. I swapped to the 40mm and took one more pic just to make sure it was working. It was. That lens is so much better than the 28mm. I’ll keep the 40 on there for a while. I really love that little sucker.
Here’s the one 40mm pic. It’s the choice for the photo a day thing for today.
Note the guitar case in the blurry background. That’s my other Les Paul. The one Jen got me for my 50th birthday. I’ll be swapping them out the next time I record guitars. The birthday Les Paul is the only one of my electric guitars that hasn’t made it onto a 50/90 track yet. That will change, probably tomorrow morning.
Now for a bunch of faux artsy pics with the 28mm lens.
I’ve already written about everything I did on day 36 (yesterday) but I’ll write it again.
I recorded rhythm guitars for one song and lead guitar on another. Not a lot of progress, but enough for a Thursday.
Band practice was once again postponed. It happened at just about the last minute. One of the guys had a family thing come up and had to take care of it. Unlike Genesis in 1974 our band understands that family comes first and no one said anything that was anything other than 100% supportive. Word on the street was that 1974 era Peter Gabriel was a little jealous.
Next time. We will play all the better next time. Seriously, I’ll have a capo so I can play that friggin’ Bryan Adams song without having to tune my guitar up a full step. Come on, Bryan Adams… a capo? Really? Just play the damn song in E like a real guitarist.
