I think this one might be good. I think. I’m not sure. I’m really close to it, but I am more excited about this than any song I’ve worked on since RPM in 2019.
Is it good? No… don’t tell me. Let me be excited for a while. Don’t burst my idiot bubble.
Last night after work Jen and I went for a drive to nowhere. She put on some music. I didn’t ask for anything, I just planned to listen to whatever she wanted.
She picked some Rush. Clearly she’s brilliant with impeccable taste. Hold Your Fire mostly, but also a little Power Windows.
The song “Grand Designs” includes the line:
Some world-views are spacious
And some are merely spaced
That pretty much sums up our idiot world, doesn’t it?
The world sucks without Neil Peart in it.
In my last post I said my never ending, never to be delivered package was out for delivery. That is incorrect. The tracking status is actually Loaded on Delivery Vehicle, not Out for Delivery. In other words, it’s still in the Chelmsford building.
It has been in Loaded on Delivery Vehicle status for over four hours.
Four hours.
Insert frustrated sigh here.
All of the tracking for the 11 June project songs is complete. Today I recorded the last two vocals, the last four lead guitars, and finished one mix.
The Klon KTR into the overdrive side of the Keeley D&M drive really clicked for me for the first time today. Also, the Bonamassa signature Crybaby is really great. The more I use it, the more I like it, and I’ve been using it a lot.
I’ve got five songs to mix and then we start looking forward to the kick off of 50/90 on July 4th. Yikes!
This was posted to a Rush group on bookfayce today. It’s an ad from The Boston Phoenix for the first Rush concert I ever saw. December 3, 1987.
We were in the balcony so it was probably $15. We bought tickets at the door.
I’m getting old. I’m out of shape. Bending down to see something that’s on the floor is no picnic these days. Also, I’m going blind. My eyesight is getting suckier by the day. Also, the printing on the Keeley D&M Drive pedal is really, really small, and the color scheme doesn’t help. The little sucker is hard to read.
Fortunately I have an iPhone. I can reach down and take a pic with the 2x lens, then zoom in on the image and magically I can read the labels on the knobs.
I love living in the future.
Except for the whole pandemic thing. That bites. The other stuff, the tech stuff, is cool.
My wife and I just walked around the block. It was the first thing that I did that even remotely resembled exercise since I cut the grass almost two weeks ago.
My back is screaming for vengeance. To say that my back really hates my guts right now is the understatement of all understatements.
Ouch.
I need exercise so badly, and yet when I try my body completely revolts against it.
Catch 22’s suck.
