Plans!

The whole sick crew is nothing if not pragmatic, and it came to me in a flash that a smart thing to do would be to record drums to a few songs at a time so as to minimise fuss, mess, complications, etc, and also add a bit of cohesiveness. So with that in mind, I recorded some more basic guitar and vocal tracks for the three old parts of what I'm trying to do. This involved me going on last.fm and checking the arrangement of one song, EmV, which in turn lead me to listen to some of my friends records from the same time particularly reynolds and their mighty tune Friday Bridge To get to March. I think Phill Rodgers should've kept his 24 track Akai hard disk recording thing and carried on knocking out good records in his basement. I occasionally think whistfully of what might have been had econoline not wasted £2,500 of someone elses money recording with other people and then thinking the tunes he did sounded better. Ho hum. Meeting Chris Summerlin from Reynolds on a train was very probably the only long term worthwhile thing I did whilst living in Welwyn a horrifying place in all respects!
Anyway so I recorded EmV, partly because it was the first decent song I wrote on guitar (i think), back in 1999 when I had my beautiful Dearmond Jetstar, (as pictured, though that isn't mine). It was an amazing guitar, which I sold to a friend for not much when I was potless, and then, when I had money and was after buying it back, it turned they gave it to their boyfriends niece, such is life!
Back to the tunes, the other reason EmV is appropriate is because it's all about the character V, from the book V. I don't just throw this together you know! I am also going to my loving tribute to pettiness, jealousy and rage, "I want to work" largely because I think it's quite fun to play. Which is a good enough reason right? This way, when I do get some time to go to Half ton, (the dates offered clashed with cavalier practice and a night of Tom looking after), I will be able to set up, and record at least three tunes. If I decide which my three borrowed tunes will be, I may even be able to get some more done. More on those crucial decisions another time!