After a great weekend with Juris, Christina, Niko and Luca - seems Thomas and Luca have become fast friends during this visit with what seems to be so much in common. Great times and always excellent to reconnect. Juris played some drums albeit very little, and Niko got to take the Howard Roberts Fusion for a ride with the Boogie Nomad a little as well. Looking forward to our next visit - next time we will have to make it up to B.C. and enjoy what Vernon has to offer.
I'm on a work event, although there's plenty of opportunity to socialize and all that presents. I'm just burnt out though, and anticipating a very tiring time the next three days manning a kiosk and answering questions/queries for 8 hrs. a day, and then the mandatory team dinners, etc... I'm going to stay in and just enjoy listening to a lot of classic Genesis on YouTube. My Facebook friends have been posting a ton of Genesis material today - particularly Kristine Fleckenstein who has a strong affection for Tony Banks. I'm going to simply get some pizza I think, then kick back and do a whitepaper review in preparation for some website publications for my day job that are synchronized to a big press conference geared towards game graphics libraries being released late tomorrow. (Suitably vague and non-informative, but curiosity inducing, no?)
Sometime in the last few weeks when I was putting mixes together for JohnH's review, I took a newer version of the Lady in a Cage sessions and dug out the very original midi drum programs I used to record all the bed tracks to, and then pulled the Cubase virtual drum module in and loaded the Phil Collins sample set in. These are the sounds taken from the drum machine Phil used on Duke, Face Value and even later - but the sounds are now so iconic and funky, so I have the original drum programs triggering them. Of course there's rampant overplaying there as I tried programming fills originally, but during the quieter sections the sounds work extremely well and give the song a more modern (ironically) feel that now has me thinking more about actually incorporating them into the song. This naturally will need to be massaged, and there will be real drums overplaying like crazy still, but the chance inclusion was really neat and so I think I'll do it :) It will likely mean I'll also rewrite some sections that I'm not totally happy with - another opportunity for updating :)
Finally, when I get home I'll be putting the Muse back together and bringing it back to the studio to use. I'll really buckle down now that the guest room is completed, the dining room chairs are mostly done, the table painted, the touchups done... I can finally get the vocal booth insulated and look at a touch screen monitor for the booth as a remote control. I will also get the flocaci rug off my bench somehow, and get the rack box up and all my sound modules in there. Moving drums forward 6" will give the china more room to breathe, and bring the other keyboard stand closer to the controls. Then figure out what to do with the big ass Yamaha KX88 piano controller that's leaning against the wall.
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