Categories: and-another-thing
Tags: WYAC
Date: 31 March 2009 21:43:16
….and what waited for me was genius and I'm lucky to be a part of it. Some of the musicians who I work with are incredibly talented and often leave me wishing I was even a fraction as good as they are at their craft. Tonight I worked with Return of Thanks, Four Foot Locker, The Severy Dawn and (half of) This Tuesday. It left me realising that, in that respect, I'm an incredibly lucky individual. One of the bands, Goodbye Gravity, couldn't make it in, which is a shame as that would have completed the set almost, but, being honest, tuesdays at the WYAC are an AWESOME lineup. They put up with me suggesting things for a start when it's obvious that, technically, they know far more than I do... But I do know a good song and can see ways of making a string song better and we had some corkers on the boil during the night. And that's before I even mention Sir Nick of WYAC who is a pleasure to work with and one of the best things we've been a part of creating. Which, if you're reading this, does not mean that I'm still not sad to have seen Kamichi finish Sir N of W, just that when it comes to recording and running the studio you're THE MAN and you make others seem slight and inconsequential by comparison.
If'n you're so interested check out their myspaces. They are going places and I'm lucky to know them as they and I grow.
Less good was finding the recording studio in a total state and one of the doors so badly treated it's hanging off one of its hinges (and, with 9 screws in each hinge that's VERY badly treated indeed) and two of our three drum kits in the wrong room and those responsible offering a very implausible lie as if I was a complete nit. And three calls to various places complaining about such things all being met with answerphones.
And of course in ways it was both my last night and just another...
It's a strange life and I leave feeling very odd indeed. I was also overcharged in the garage buying a drink (Feelgood apple and blueberry - yummers) while waiting for the bus. Grr.
AAAAnyhow, I'll stop wittering on about this now. Onwards.