Jackroadkill

Blimey - how come?

Had a blast, and am still reeling from the experience! I met @walshy and @AndyTravis on the VBR stand (best part of the day!) and didn't buy any gear at all, although I now have a shopping list as long as my arm...

Well done, sir! That's one more of us and one less of them!

It would be a killer track to play live; all you'd need to do is play I am The Mountain and High Command along with Freya and then you could go home.

That's a great song - you'll nail it. Will you be playing it live?

Isn't that Bjork's comeback album title?

How do you find it goes down with an audience? We had a row about playing it in my last band - I reckoned it was infectious and would go down well even with people who didn't know it at first, and the singer reckoned that nobody would know it so it was pointless to play the song. We didn't play it, but I'm fully intending to inflict it on an audience at some point!

Waiting Room, by Fugazi. Not particularly complicated in terms of notes, but a stuttering rhythm that is keeping my on my toes. Bloody love playing it though. Next stop is Jaya The Cat's El Camino.

Now that's cool.

Alright, there's no need to get all hipster about it!

I think the point is that there's no magic when it comes to your tone. As he states in the video, he's a teacher and wants to encourage students to buy less and practise more; one of the most important lessons you can learn (as I see it) is that you can only make marginal gains when you replace some of the links in your chain. Obviously some will have a bigger effect than others, but in this example he shows that you can upgrade your cables, pickups, loom etc etc and it won't have as much effect as changing your cabinet.

A brave but sensible and necessary decision, sir.

Man, what a ballache.... Hopefully you can get things sorted soon.

Absolutely the right call if the thrill is gone, Dave. It breaks my heart to think of not reading your gig reports, though!

Had a lot of fun mucking about with a mate who was in my last band tonight. We're looking to get another band of some sort together and played stuff by Therapy?, The Levellers, The Wildhearts and Allison Russel for an hour or two. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am really keen to get back into action after a long layoff.