into Friday. No medical episodes although I’ll be going out for lunch with Gary later today, so who knows? If it’s anything like the last time, we’ll be driving though Jersey for 40 minutes while Gary talks over the GPS so that I can’t hear the directions, only arrive at the pace and it’s not open, despite me calling the day before specifically to check. Yesterday was uneventful although I did get a text from Rick asking when are we playing again? I told him that we needed to hear from Lock, so I dunno what’s going on there. Jon was a bit out of sorts the last time he was here. I suspect trouble on the home front but I’m guessing. It’s none of my business anyway. I have yet to hear from him, so maybe it will be Gazza, Rick combo next up. It’s a long weekend, there’s time to throw down some tunes and record them. This is my venue. Anyone can come and watch.
Where would musicians be without relationship problems anyway? I was talking with a friend of mine who is a drummer, and we both agreed that bass players are particularly weird. They’re either pains in the ass in some way or as she said, “just little bitches”. They know we can’t do without them and that’s how they act. Lock falls into neither of those categories by the way, but this is a guy who fell from a great height off a building not too long ago.
I’m gonna re-record some of those songs that I found on the cassettes I was copying. One of them I like a lot. It’s called Drifting Out In Space and it sounds great even though the recording is a bit dated and it’s coming off a cassette that’s decades old. I think I can make it sound better. It’s missing a brass section which I attempted to recreate on a keyboard. I have no idea how I recorded this stuff in the first place. This was before DAWs (digital audio workstations) were invented. I think I had a four track tape recorder.
I’m mystified. What did I use for the drums and keyboards for that matter? I have no recollection of recording that stuff but I know it was in Balmain because I made a video for the song there. I think most of it has gone missing. I remember now. I had a sampler and a drum machine which somehow got lost by the movers between Sydney and San Francisco. Probably the fucking tape machine as well. Thanks for nothing.
Since I have about five thousand cassettes, reel to reels, VHS, Betamax and U-matic tapes, it’s a lot to look through. I won’t even mention the Mini Dvs, Super 8 tapes and whatever else came along in the past 30 or 40 years. I can’t throw any of it out. Some of it is in the barn up north, but at some point I’ll have to jettison most of it. It’s taking up too much room.
Then there’s Ray (the previous owner) and his collection of 800 cans of film which is slowly turning to dust. I’d just as soon send all of it to the fucking landfill. Imagine how much crap is being stored in the cloud. Every day millions of pieces of information gets uploaded to somewhere. You couldn’t possibly get through all of it in several lifetimes. This is where Ai will come in handy. “Ai, sort through this 200 terabytes of garbage that I have and find me the video I made of Drifting Out in Space, there’s a good chap.”
The first men on the Moon – you’re welcome.
The only problem with that is unless it’s already in the cloud, it won’t be found.
Happy Friday.
Drifting Out in Space – by me. It’s a demo from an ancient cassette, Ok?