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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I've probably got enough part-completed songs to do two albums....
Always wanted to record an album, did that .... just wasn't very good
The biggest achievement though is earning a living by playing guitar, to gig all weekend, earn the money and then just dick about all week getting a tan in the garden and talking shit on here ...... it's not a bad life
I'm currently doing the (instrumental) album thing BUT my strength is not in production so I expect folk here to slate it for that, but then they can get off their @rses and show me what they can do. Bass/drums and general sound wont be top-notch production quality but at least I'll have had a stab. There's one song I want to add but guitars are down now for 9 tracks with most tracks nearly done and I don't know if I have it in me to do one more song... it's taking SO long, you have no idea. I've done almost everything myself except bass work by fretmeister on 4 tracks and drums for one or two tracks. I'm tempted to cut it short at 9 tracks and just polish what I've got. @ICBM and a few others have had a listen to some of the tracks - I think the guitars are good and interesting but I need to work on bass/drums/EQ etc... Folk must think I'm joking when I say I've got an album coming out but it's no joke - it's serious work. The guitars were largely done 8+ years ago (!!) and the rest has been a few added parts, bass, drums etc - basically finishing off what was started years ago (which drifted when I started my degree and then work).
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Maybe I'll start an album thread as a motivator
I just want to carry on enjoying it.
I'd like to play some bigger gigs but not so many that it stops being such an adventure.
Fantasy land: Get the Marc Ford/Audley Freed/Luther Dickinson slot when the Black Crowes reform.
but surely that needs targets or something?
Or are you happy carrying on as a player purely as a hobby?
- Record at least one full LP and get it properly distributed.
- Be a regular fixture on one of the moderately large metal/rock festivals scattered over the UK
- Just carry on playing shows, recording, jamming, and staying creative under my arms fall off
Ive been gigging for almost 30 years which is a bit scary but I'm still at my happiest onstage playing guitar with other musicians.
Targets for the next few months finish wrIting and record an album with my new originals band and be regularly gigging, and increase the profile and number/size of gigs for my latest two cover/tribute bands.
So yeah - just more and more playing and I'll be happy.
Guitar playing has always been just a hobby to me and I've never held any ambitions of hitting the big time - apart from when I was about 14 years old.
Plus - to be a competent (rather than brilliant) jazz player. Tired of getting by with bluffer licks & tricks.
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My targets are very wide-ranging. I want to be able to listen to great music (and having had some bad ear trouble in the last 18 months that is very precious to me). I want to be able to pick up a guitar as I please and play stuff. And when other things are turning to shit (work/business pressures, things like that) I want it to be there, untainted.
When i went to Uni, I didn't do music. Because after a long day of studying, I wanted to come home and enjoy guitar. Same reason I've never been a guitar tutor, it's a hobby.
However, I would do it as a living if it was gigging (and social hours, so never going to happen)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.