Guitars, guitars, and more guitars. And computers.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve recorded the guitars for just about half the songs for the new album.  It’s quite the process.  I’d done fairly fully-fleshed out demos for most of these songs, and so started out the “real” versions by importing the demo parts as a road map once the drums were tracked.  So all I needed to do was to re-record each part in place, like color-by-number for some of them.  But…

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The Magic Word?

I’ve been getting these calls a couple times a day.  “This is your second and final notice that your automobile warranty is about to expire…”  Or some variation on that theme, anyway.  I ignored it for a few weeks, but it didn’t stop or even slow down the calls. So yesterday, when I got the call again, I dutifully pressed 1 to speak to an operator.  As she started into her fast-paced scripted sales pitch,…

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