Rain

Alice Cooper - Jacknife Johnny

Motörhead - Lost Johnny

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky

Black Sabbath - Hole in th Sky

Judas Priet - You've Got Another Thing Comin' (I had to, at this point)

Judas Priest - Here Come the Tears. (I may be a bit of a Priest fan)

Judas Priest - Night Comes Down

Agreed!

I've tried letting it hang low like the cool kids but that doesn't work for me. I do seem to like the Les Paul a little bit lower. But these two pics taken + 20 years apart with the same guitar show that, overall, try as I might, I always revert to the same strap length.

Noise Unit - Illicit Dreams

Judas Priest - Living Bad Dreams

Judas Priest - Dreamer/Deceiver

Glad to have you around, my friend.

I had no idea until I read a heartfelt Facebook post by Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) paying tribute to David Crosby. "If I may, I urge anyone reading this to listen to ‘Orleans’ and then ‘Traction on the rain’ from his solo record (‘If I could only remember my name’) from 1971. It’s a few minutes of your time. Perhaps it’s ‘too slow’ for some of you in a time when ‘speed-ed up’ versions of popular songs are a preference to some (what the actual *****!). But take a breath and brace yourselves. " I had to look it up, and I found this. https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/tiktok-sped-up-songs Mind you, I had tons of fun when I was a kid playing LP's and singles at 78 rpm - snare rolls in particular where hilarious. I thought the one in Hound Dog sounded like a fart. But that was just something stupid I did for fun. I loved the songs as they were. But yeah. This is what happens... Me, I have no time for people who have no time for music.

For the sake of being honest, I felt I had to post this here. Last year, I finally started streaming using Apple Music. Quite convenient. That being said, I still buy music - especially CDs that I rip and add to my iTunes library. Since I don't really bother with audio quality unless I'm sitting in my studio, I don't mind streaming when I'm in the gym or elsewhere in the house. This morning however, I really wanted to an album that is NOT available chez Apple. I figured - alright, simple. Connect the iPhone to the Mac, sync and transfer a copy of that album to the phone. That's how it used to work, anyway. Well, not anymore. Once you've bought into that streaming platform, there's no such thing a an easy way to transfer audio files from your computer to your phone. It's one or the other: your curated music collection OR the cloud. Your computer will let you use both local and cloud in conjunction but not your phone. So you either temporarily turn off the cloud and potentially erase everything you've set up or forget about importing music. Since I have experienced my share of disasters when importing music on my iPhone, I really don't trust Apple with this, so I had to forget about it. So yeah, even us Apple fans can hate them at times...

The Clash - London's Burning Seems obvious but I felt like litsening to it...

Tokyo Blade -School House is Burning

Motörhead - Fire, Fire

Iron Maiden - I've Got the Fire

Judas Priest - Rapid Fire

I hear you. Hopefully, that's nothing that will stay with you I injured my back carrying a Marshall combo form the rehearsal space in February 1989. Slope + icy sidewalk + precious (rented) cargo on my right shoulder. Slipped but I managed to avoir any damage to the amp. My back though... I was stuck in bed for days afterwards. And I've had back problems pretty much ever since, although that's probably just one of the reasons. I blame my Bobby Orr-grade knees for most of my hips, back and neck issues. These things are like dominoes. Oddly enough, I ended up buying the exact same amp from a frind of a friend a few years later. My first decent amp. Transistor but it actually sounded very good (from what I remember). That one I eventually had to haul around in for hours in Montreal going from pawnshop to pawnshop when my first wife and I hit a rough patch. I always regretted it. And they gave me $50 for it because the knobs were dirty - something I could have fixed in a minute with a can of air. But we needed to eat. It was one of these.

Yikes! I think it was around $40 back then, and she signed it for my ex and I. Actually, I believe it was supposed to be some sort of paid for meet and greet but we arrived early and me not being accustomed to that sort of thing, I walked right into that closed off section. People always seem to mistake me for someone important, so no one asked, and she was with friends of ours, so it seemed rather informal, and we just hung out with her and got the signed book at no extra cost.

Moving to a different platform seems to have been an incentive to rework some of my old material, maybe because I could no longer just launch Sonar, load the project - and then lose interest in reworking the song within 27 seconds. I've only reworked a few, but I very much enjoyed the process. Some of those things really brought me back. And it was also nice to have better gear to work with. In most cases, I managed not to re-record too many parts. I did add some overdubs here and there, mostly to beef things up. But I did entirely replace some tracks, especially bass (synth) parts. Having access to better gear, better monitors and a better room to work in, I managed to clean things up a bit on the low end, and some things just weren't really working as they were. And in some cases, I've carefully re-recorded the same parts, but made sure that I turned off or at least dialed back the reverb on those synth patches. That's one of the reasons why I was so thankful when Z3t4, Dimension and Rapture were finally ported to Mac. They were my go to synths for those projects. In every instance, the new mix is a lot cleaner and technically better (although I have long since abandonned any pretense of having any talent when it comes to mixing music). In a few cases, I'm actually happier with the new mixes. That's as good as it's going to get with me at the helm. But in some instances, I have to admit that, as mushy and all wrong as the original mix was, there is something to it that I just cannot improve. The new mixes just don't "move" like the original. It is a fascinating process, at any rate.

Judas Priest - Better By You, Better Than Me.