Incredible frustration with both myself for not ever getting to a point of really using them, and also our home budgetmeister for not getting a grip on things budget... I've found myself a very eager and suitable buyer for the huge SpaceMuffins drumkit. It was the last great experiment and flirting (I think) I'll do with the drumming side, since none of the drummers I knew really wanted to play on someone else's kit, nor could I find the time and means to really get my chops up to do my own drumming for my recordings. Alas fine young Blake from Everett gets the kit and is very excited at the prospect of them. Congratulations to you Blake - you will now be the next owner of Seattle history.
Being that this is the next in the series called "thinning the herd" - also gone out the door are the Kat KT3m module, and today the Egnater Rebel 20 sold (for far less than what it's worth, dammit...) on eBay, with the Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 5 and the Mesa Nomad 100 combo still up for auction. I am seriously considering selling the Korg Krome 73 since the Muse Receptor covers much of the same ground - only concern is the brittle nature of the Receptor and how Michael (previous owner) was so down about the product due to it being so fragile. At this point though, I don't think I'll be anyone's primary keyboardist much less my own band's so I can easily live with the Receptor and the Nektar Panorama P6 controller in conjunction with the Numa Organ and Roland Gaia as my keyboard rig. I have Paul's Triton rack as backup, and the V-Synth XT rack as well - and any keyboardist I am working with going forward will have their rig to work with in rehearsal and live anyways.
Recording sessions for the redux songs is still on "Lady in a Cage" - much improvements have come along from the guitar redos, and using the Numa Organ and Gaia has added new life to many of the keyboard parts. I have two more guitar solos to record/replace, and then I think I'm onto vocals and effects - the new segues are very cool but maybe a tad long in spots so I'll be pulling out some more theatrical f/x type things to make that less apparent. Then the big decisions for the mixdowns - I've got a lot of mix issues sorted but when into the final mixing work I'll thin down some of the layering and make the important parts stand out better. This is after all the objective of the project, and there may yet be some additional changes to implement in the main song depending on mixing takeaways.
Finally, I've got a date for the The Sound of Thoughts reboot release show - Saturday March 14th @ Finaghty's on the Ridge. The band lineup is mostly new blood - Keegan Musser on bass, Michael Quigley on guitar, John Hernandez on drums, and one chair for keyboards still to be determined. We'll be playing some of the key tracks from The Sound of Thoughts, a few tracks from Fine Line, some covers, and hope to have two or three new pieces of music written as collaboration from the unit listed above. The aim is to do all the really proggy pieces - Lady in a Cage, This Mortal Coil, Pentelho Vermelho, Heartbeat Failing, Atonement, First Piece in the Puzzle, Mirror Mirror, In the Shadows, Mesmerize - definitely picking the more challenging pieces for this gig. It promises to be really great - the guys all know how to play extremely well, I would say this is the best most talented band top to bottom I've been in so the material will be done very well. I'm excited!!
Thats it for tonight. I'm up late since I had a 3 hr nap earlier this evening so now I'm a night owl... I'll run through one of the solos now and then call it a night, Cheers!!
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