Took mum to specialist bloke who told her she's not well enough to operate on, so will have to live with her hernia. She seemed pleased that the operation was a no-no. Sun's out and I really do have a few garden chores to do, but not feeling all that great generally so it can wait. Tim came round and we had a pleasant afternoon, although somewhat curtailed by Pat being unhappy. Later we had an almost-row, which is rare. Unfortunately, I'd indulged in some variable-strength shortbread so kinda spoke my mind more than usual. Afterwards we seemed to reach some kind of uneasy truce but I guess the topic of how we spend our post-horse retirement together still needs proper resolution.
Sunday and it was the Polypores gig, along with Preston Field Audio (I think that's the name). Tim and I had a great time, thoroughly enjoyed both sets (esp the Polyp Lyra/looper/reverb bits) then went for a Thai meal from that place that was thankfully back on form. Think I got ripped off at the Plau though - £15 for two pints! Stopped at Continental for another one on way home and all was well. Pat seemingly mellow but talking about going south for a couple of days sometime this week. I do sometimes worry that she wants me to be someone else, dearly wish I could wean her off reading the Daily Fucking Mail online.
Monday and it's a bit rainy. I'm going to work on Tony's track today - Andy sent me the guitar parts and they're fabulous, as always. So good that I'm going to try and have a section with almost nothing else. Playing the Jonathan Bree CD that arrived yesterday - lots of cool spooky songs on first listen. Got the new Ott too but not heard any yet. OK, now I have and it's very good indeed - also it's precisely everything, every box ticked, that a lot of people will have been hoping for.
I worked on the track, managed to slot in the guitar although no idea if it totally lines up as it's free-floating audio. It sounds so nice I decided to use it twice - and for that I'll need all guitar parts (4) separately. I also want to streamline the backing as it's too cluttered and that dry percussive sound that I was filtering in Logic should be removed if I can. All down to what's in the BB and how I divided everything up. If it comes to it I'll redo the sequence from scratch. Still not convinced the tempo actually was 84BPM but I'll make a loop in Logic and confirm what it really was/is.
Wednesday and I think this track for Tony (the quiet man) is done. Working on it and making endless tweaks in Logic has reminded me I could never do what Dean does - I don't have the skills or patience to endlessly work to perfect something, hence my love of doing everything live as a performance. I doubt I'll be going back to DAW too often. My final mix doesn't sound quite as loud as it did in the studio but maybe that's OK given the title. Will play through a few times and see. Walking tomorrow...
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