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I recently read Perfecting Sound Forever and found it a pretty thought-provoking read. In particular, the pros and cons of editing as a tool and process when recording music. As soon as you start editing and mixing music you’re no longer creating a record: the sound you end up with was never performed and furthermore, it’s potentially misleading (i.e. auto-tuning vocalists who can’t hold a note in tune). Where do you draw the line? Is there a line that should be drawn in the first place? Does it matter? The last question is the easiest to answer: of course it doesn’t. At least, it doesn’t matter what I do. I just play around my guitars and computer in my spare room

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I know two Dan’s. They’re very similar in many ways. Both are great people, and great musicians.

Was chatting to (the Glasgow based) Dan just now, and he was asking if I’d like to play with his band. I was weighing up the pros and cons, and he came out with this:

give it a bash, its not like I’d stop being your pal if it didn’t work out, I’m too much of a pro that way

what happeend to your old bassist?

we fired him

That man has style.

I like the fact that there’s a driving beat and some very fast and strange stuff from Alasdair going on over the top. This is going to be fun live

PS. For those of you that are on the edge of your seats with anticipation, I’ll get round to writing a proper update sooner or later.

Err, that’s about it really. It was pretty out of date, and now it is in date. Plus, as I’m having a very slow morning at work waiting for images to render, and sick of reading journal papers, I wrote a quick summary of various bands I’ve played in. Some of them were good, some of them weren’t. Some of them were a lot of fun, some of them weren’t. All of them introduced me to new, interesting people, many of who I’m still in at least irregular contact with (read: friends with on facebook).

So, have you seem them cakes?