Playing Ma Geetar

Having mildly hurt my wrist at the weekend playing guitar I was somewhat pessimistic, notably on account of an impending gig and the need for practice. Praise the good Lord I managed to play the guitar for half hour this evening without being in too much pain! Huzzah. We see how a full on rock n roll sesh on Saturday.

Now watching a bit of QI on Dave, tres amusing. It does make me smile, the odd mix of silliness and cleverness.

Getting Excited

So my band - Starting Over - is in the process of recording a demo.

Tomorrow evening I will hopefully finish the vocals which will then leave it in the oh so capable hands of Christian to mix and master and make us sound good.

What I have already heard sounds epic. The sound was really big and full and I'm very excited by it.

Playing guitar for 4 hours to record 3 tracks was interesting. For one of the songs, we broke it down into 7 parts, and excluding the muck ups I recorded each bit 4 times. 28 tracks just for guitar! Rock on!

Random Future Nostalgia

Sitting on my sofa earlier today, all of a sudden I was engulfed in what I can only describe as a wave of future nostalgia.

I was old, and my sister was talking to her daughter while in my presence saying "Your Uncle David used to play in a band with your Dad".

It made me smile, my eyes quite possibly got a touch wet and I felt hopeful, special and inspired.

So I have blogged, and then I shall pick up my guitar and practice, possibly finish writing my new song...

My Notebook or Net Book Or Mini Laptop Or Whatever It Is

For the first time in ages I started carrying my small laptop thing with me to work and back so I can get creative again! I started this week by writing a letter to a dear friend which I probably should print out and post tomorrow. I think the next step will be to re-open the rather large document that is handily entitled Novel and press on with it. I'm feeling a little bit more inspired and creative again. Oddly enough being weighed down and stuff doesn't aid the creative process.

Next step after using the train time wisely will be try and use some of my time spent in the flat on noveling as opposed to watching silly tv programmes! Although to be fair, I have been using the silly tv programmes in a constructive way the last week or so as a time to practice playing the guitar. So there have been some "improvements"... whether or not there are improvements in my guitar playing is another matter all together!