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The bits
of stuff that fall in the cracks between Life, Music and outrageous
fortune. |
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James holds up his trophy Molly Award bottle
of pinot |
PC
Doctor saves the day - again!
24.1.09 - I noticed the music
PC was starting to struggle the night before Allan Alderson's
session (see below) and was startled to discover I
had less than ten gigs memory left! I contacted James (The Shepparton
PC Doctor) Feldman (pic) and happily he was due in
town yesterday and promised to drop in to AMS with an enormous
new hard drive in hand.
It was another of those uncomfortably hot, blowy days yesterday.
I'd spent most of the morning on trams picking up CDs from Aztec
and was over it and James had been on another job and was keen
to get home, but the transplant was effected in good time and
James took away a bottle of my Molly Award pinot to sample over
dinner. |
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Smartarse
Mike multi-tasks as Allan vocalises |
Accidental
Music Studio running hot!
21.1.09 - It's been hot the
last few days in Melbourne and late in the afternoons it becomes
almost unbearable in the AMS studio, but you can't stop the
music and work has proceeded apace despite the discomfort.
Anyway, the last couple of days have been quite a deal of
fun - Allan Alderson (pic) has been realising a long
held ambition to record a version of Some Good Advice,
which was facilitated by way of a birthday gift from his sister
who e-mailed me from Switzerland of all places. (Jeez!
I just got sidetracked by a tele-researcher asking about
my newspaper reading habits and hung up to hear my hard-boiled
eggs exploding on the stove!) Meanwhile, Edwin Mitchell returns
tomorrow to finish off his tracks. |
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 1)
Mike and Iain imagine they're looking cheerful 2) Dick flaunts
his Torquay tan |
The
Rudds' night out
15.1.09 - It was when I missed the second
tram in a row I decided to hang the expense and drive into town,
pick up Dick and Iain Ross (pics) and head to Docklands
to find a passing fair restaurant. We found the Medici without
too much trouble and settled down to an evening of chat and
idle boasting as befits gentlemen of our vintage |
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Andrew,
Michael and Henry recording I Don't Know |
AMS
activities
12.1.09 - While the band impatiently awaits
its first gig of the year, I haven't been entirely idle - nor
has the AMS studio. Last week we hosted a couple of clients
- and they're coming back for more this week! The first was
my guitar student's band (pic) and they put down a
track with a view to putting down at least three more this Thursday.
You can see it was very cramped - and next time we'll have a
drum kit to deal with!
On Friday I had Edwin Mitchell over, who's a music teacher and
a long-time Spectrum fan from Tweed Heads, and we put down one
of his compositions - he's coming back as well! All this activity
has galvanised me and I'm now making some progress on the second
EP - hooray! |
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Cometh
the hour, cometh the man..
6.1.09 - You will surely be as sick as
I am of the shenanigans being perpetrated by my recalcitrant
sewer. It was on Christmas Day, no less, that it decided to
boilover at the fenceline and spew a steady stream of questionable
liquid into the gutters. Seeing as the problem appeared to be
on the fenceline, I decided to chance my luck with the water
company. If nothing else, they'd be able to sort out whose responsibility
it was. I rang them this morning and was told that a bloke would
be out within two hours. To my surprise, a bloke (pic)
did turn up within the specified two hours and immediately began
reaming the pipes, with the happy result that my flow is now
restored. O happy day! Mind you, I've been here before, but
I think that this time the problem is finally fixed. Now to
find somewhere else to live.. |
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Thank
you, Ross, for a lovely NY's Eve party |
New
Year's Eve at the Ryans'
1.1.09 - The Ryans very thoughtfully opened
their doors to the assorted riff-raff they've accumulated over
the years, which, not surprisingly, turned out to be a fairly
homogeneous lot. I managed to photograph just about everybody
who turned up, but time is ticking away for the New Year already,
so I'll spare you the results. The pic (left) was taken
at the precise moment 2009 clocked in and shows former Ross
Ryan protegé Rob Draper, (centre) no doubt seeing
a vision of the New Year arriving, flanked by a thankfully beardless
Ross (left) and an equally facially denuded James (PC
Doctor) Feldman. Ross showed us rushes of the clip for his new
single, I'm Going Back To Queensland, which looks like
fun! |
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