Recording again, and it feels good – Starting with some easy blues chugging – This isn’t how I usually start this 12 bar thing I do – but it sounds OK so I went with it, and I am quite pleased with the result, even if I didn’t manage to count up to four properly the first couple of times!

I start part of the way in to my practiced track, completely missing the beginning off – so I am pretty quickly onto the minor Pentatonic bit I do, right up to that high E and then all the way back down to chugging.… Read the rest

It has been a heck of a long time since I posted any live rock music – almost exactly a year! And since I have been practicing like a crazy loon since then, I hope I sound better now, than I did a year ago!

It is also the first session I recorded using my new compressor pedal, which is plugged in, and turned on throughout the whole session, with the settings unchanged, and pretty much as they appear in the video – I love that sustain turned nearly up to the max!… Read the rest

Never Mind The Distortion – Keep On Rocking!

The sound is little distorted in the beginning, but undeterred by this I quickly start playing my low E string, faster and faster, until I can’t help but go into a Dick Dale – Pulp fiction, kind of thing, that, if I spent more work on, could sound quite good – At least it could sound quite good without the distortion I am currently suffering from!… Read the rest

A Mysterious Stickiness

I should have recorded this session a day earlier, but my cat is on heat! Why should that be a problem – I hear you ask – Well, the thing is, when she is on heat she likes to pee everywhere, and yesterday she picked my guitar cable as one of the places she decided to pee. So, when I went to plug my guitar in, I noticed the cable had a certain unfamiliar stickiness to it, and a somewhat unpleasant aroma.… Read the rest

Damn Cat!

Not much recorded today – mainly thanks to the cat, and its habit of pressing random buttons on my mixer. It’s cold in the house at the moment, because January! – The mixer gets nice and warm when it has been turned on for a while – so despite all those very uncomfortable looking knobs and dials, she likes to sit on it! her paw’s pads are very good at pressing the buttons.… Read the rest

After the Christmas hols, the New Year celebrations, and a few days in bed with quite a nasty bout of flu, I am back with some more live sounds to rock you with!

The Notes Don’t Seem To Fit!

And it’s straight into some chugging, with a bit of distortion from the mixer which usually goes away after a few seconds or so. It’s a rock and roll beat, but I can’t quite seem to get the right amount of beats into the bars – they just don’t seem to fit properly at first.… Read the rest

Starting With Something New!

Seems I just started with no clear plan as to what I intended to do, maybe these sessions would be better with some structure – but that may take away some of the spontaneity that gives a certain flavor to everything. I start with some simple arpeggio, and create a loop like nothing I have ever tried before – so it is not terribly surprising I have no idea what to put on top of it – and the things I do try, don’t exactly work!… Read the rest