What the Hell is That?

When I went outside this morning I saw something weird.

What the hell is all that blue stuff in the sky? Where is the normal grey and awful looking stuff up there? I don’t get it. Blue sky? Does not compute.

Late

I didn’t get a chance to break for lunch until 2:15 today. An hour and 15 minutes later than I was hoping. Ugh.

Driving Home Last Night

A couple of pics from the drive home last night. Both are in Haverhill, MA.

No reason. I just felt like posting them.

Finally!

1,591 days

The search for a new singer for the band is over. The new singer is our old singer. He’s back and it’s fantastic! It probably means we won’t be changing the name now, but I can get over that.

It was like riding a bike tonight, especially given that my guitar playing sucked. Well, I was doing fine for about 25 minutes and then my fingers decided they were toast and they stopped doing what I wanted them to do. I expect that my sloppy playing on Stevie Wonder’s Superstition will cause the ghosts of Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughn to haunt me tonight.

That’s okay, We’ll get back into shape soon enough. I seriously want us to book a gig for October or November, just to push us back into form. We had one practice tonight and now we’ll be off for the next two weeks. We need to spark some serious motivation, you know? Let’s book a gig!

As for gear notes, I played my Les Paul Standard through my Vox AC15. I have a sneaking suspicion that is going to be my primary rig for the near future. I put my clone of a ProCo Rat pedal onto the board and completely forgot that it, like the Vox amp, has it’s tone control backward (it cuts rather than boosts) so when I was trying to make the tone less trebly I was actually making it more trebly. I’ll fix that next time… if I remember that I did things backwards. We’ll see.

Big Night for the Band

There is a high potential that tonight will be a big night for the band. If things work out the way they seem to be working out (and there are still a couple of hours for it to go wrong), tonight will be the first band practice with all four of us since before the last gig on February 1, 2020.

Now I know I’ve said this a bunch of times before, but it sounds like whatever was keeping our singer away has been resolved and he seems to be fully on board again. Like I said, it could all blow up any minute now, but at this particular instant in time, it’s happening.

I put new strings on the Les Paul Standard. I’m nearly ready to go. I just have to pack a few things into a bag to take along with me. My fingers are firmly crossed.

I also used the Gibson branded multi-tool that came with the guitar for the first time. Cool, eh?

I had to take the back cover off of the pickup selector switch to spin the whole thing a little in the counter clockwise direction and then tighten it all up. The switch came a little loose recently and when I tightened it by hand from the face of the guitar, the switch moved a little and it was facing in a new, slightly awkward direction. I think it’s all set now. In further 2020 Les Paul Standard 50’s news, is there a little issue brewing with the nut near the high E string? Maybe. It’s tough to tell. At least I have a relationship with a luthier now so if it needs help I know where to take it.

Bakery Blues

It had only been two weeks since my last visit to the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH. In that space of time, however, they seemed to stop selling all of the things I usually buy from them. What a friggin’ bummer, eh? Maybe next time will be better.

Also, the weather today just plain blows.

Cat Views

We went to visit Jen’s mother and step father today. When we came home, this was waiting for us:

I think we can take the xmas lights down now, don’t you?

Fast forward a few hours to just a few minutes ago. Jen is asleep and I’m sitting up in bed watching youtube videos about guitars and film photography and doctor who and this is what is sitting below the foot of the bed: