The Knott

There’s bad news and then some good news in this post.

First the bad news (because it’s always better to get these things out of the way first).

Unfortunately, the recordings we did on 7 May are no longer available. Andy R who had recorded us at Dream Rehearsal Rooms in Swindon told me the story yesterday.

During a rouge installation of MusicMatch player, an inadvertant button click caused a complete search and add of all music files of ALL denominations to the MM library. I am guessing that the file names created by the multi-tracking software on his laptop were quite long, incorporating the song title, track title etc. and MusicMatch went and renamed every single track with the age old DOS format of filena~1.wav, filena~2.wav so that all the tracks were completely indistinguishable from each other.

Andy did contemplate trying to listen to each file individually to see if he could determine the instrument AND song but found the whole process a tad difficult and way too time consuming.

But the good news is, Andy’s going to come to our rehearsal again this week so we’ll get a chance to do a few more single takes. I’d like to see if we can get the new song Road To Freedom down as well. That song is going to be Soooooo awesome.

The other bit of good news is my new guitar turned up today. I’ve bought a brand spanking new black Yamaha BB415 5-string bass from www.soundslive.co.uk and it was delivered today - alright I had to go pick it up from the courier’s depot but I got it about an hour ago none the less.

Why is that when you pop out for half an hour, that’s when the courier turns up? Do they wait round the corner waiting for you to leave and then pounce with the card in hand and already completed (partially) to shove it through your letterbox or what?

Anyway, I’m just waiting for my little one to wake up from our nap so I can plug the
new beast in and try out the action ;o)

That’s all for now, I’ll let you know how it fits in with the band after Sunday.

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