I badly needed a break so yesterday I took a somewhat creatively extended "lunch hour" and decamped with Phil to Woodshack - Woody's studio in Wymondham - for some therapeutic racket-making mayhem.
My PRS and my Fender you already know, but I'd like you to meet Phil's spiffy new drum kit.It's a Pearl "Reference" kit, which basically means it costs the same as the average house … in fact you could buy several suburbs of Detroit with it in the current market.
No doubt he'll tell you more about it in the comments box but basically it is an extremely expensive and complex bunch of things to hit.
To make noise.
A lot of noise.
And here he is doing just that, the noisy fucker.
The new kit has lots of complicated and shiny pieces of metal attached to it, as well as some nice sparkly bits.
Phil is two and a half years younger than me, so sometime in mid 2012 his bald patch will be as big as mine.We all need something to look forward to.
So anyhoo … We spent a few hours making one hell of a racket and then one of my fingers started bleeding (I'm retired from all this crap and I've not played seriously in over a year) so we had to call it a day.
Coffee … The musicians' friend.Along with alcohol, recreational drugs and ugly girls offering you a blowie in the car park between sets … but we stuck with just the coffee.
Luckily for you guys we didn't record any of the crap we played but maybe if I can get hold of a bass player who can handle jazz (properly) we might do this again some time and post the result.
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"Coffee … The musicians' friend."
I agree!
However, Dive... that looks like instant coffee!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO YOUR TASTEBUDS!?
Not to be confused with real coffee, studio coffee is uniformly execrable, D.
A triple-strength head-jolting mud-based concoction to which all musicians become strangely addicted.
i knew i'd find something great here! i can't sleep, sugar, this move has me at wits end *sighing* xoxoxo
(h'mmmm, almost 3am, i could go downstairs and make a pot of java...)
Don't worry about the packing, Savannah; you'll soon be in your new home.
And then … er … you'll have to unpack everything again.
Good luck!
xoxoxo
Cool drums! Can I play?
Were you working from home yesterday?
Ask Thom for a drum kit for Christmas, Joy. They are remarkably good stress-relievers, though not for your neighbours which is why Phil plays an electronic kit through headphones when he's at home.
Yes, I was working from home yesterday and I'm in London today. We are so busy at the moment everything is confusion; I don't know what day it is half the time.
Sigh …
We're not doing Christmas gifts for each other this year :D We're just happy that we're spending it together, and with Althaea in Manila. But we will give friends and family gifts.
Will November be as busy? At least the sun is out!
Perhaps you can persuade your boss that buying you a drum kit for your office would be a great way of improving staff morale.
But then again …
Yeah, like that's gonna happen :D
So thats what has been keeping your brother so busy he doesn't answer his email. :)
Full - you're forgiven, everyone needs an obsession.
I happen to have a bass player, shall i send her over to you?
I know as much about drums as I do guitars, which is nothing except that I played Zildian symbols in the marching band in high school.
That's a great shot with your hand on the guitars—looks like an action shot.
wishing I was there....
Joy: Hee hee.
Kate: Please remember to put holes in the box when you mail The Groover to me. I don't want a repeat of what happened when Knudsen sent me that cute little Japanese girl. I had to bury her in the garden.
Zildjian are great cymbals, Robyn.
Prudence: Me, too.
Glad you included the coffee in this post,dive. That is one nice set of drums he's got there.
Ugly girls offering you a ...? Ew.
It's lovely to see Phil, with his bald patch too.
The up shot of the drumkit is superb.
Rich: As a musician yourself you know that there's no music without Joe.
Lynn: Yup; never a pretty one.
The drums sound as good as they look.
Bloody loud, though.
Ambiguous leaps to mind. hee, hee
The only thing leaping to my mind at the moment is dinner, Prudence. I'm just home from London and about to hit the kitchen and commit vegecide.
My roommate put beef n barley stew in the crock-pot this morning and when we get home she will throw a bag of baby spinach in it and we will resort to pigginess.
Oooh Prudence, don't. I'm hungry now and it's midnight. Too late to eat. :(
I agree with Scout. Excellent composition! I thought it might be interesting painting material. My painting would probably suck but the instruments are very sensuous. Would you mind if I tried a painting from one of your photos? I just bought a new flute for my daughter. She needed an upgade. It is sterling silver. I suppose I could sell it for the metal if she ever decides to quit.
I like the drink and shoot shot as well. And, don't worry, designers and creators need these types of lunch hours for stress relief. Jamey sometimes forgets how nice it is to play his cares away, but I can see how much he enjoys it when he gets back to it. You should still do some version of sanity band even if it's just you and Phil, don't you think? Toughen up those fingers Dive!
I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
Sorry I couldn't resist. Cool drums!
Hi Dive - you and me both - busy as a little bee this week. More time tomorrow so will will come and read you then!!!
Mmmmm … Pigginess is good, Prudence; especially at this time of year. We need to fatten ourselves up for the cold winter months (at least that's my excuse).
Lynn: It's never too late to eat!
Neetzy: guitars are a bugger to paint but feel free. I've just put a few shots up on today's post for you but there are many more tucked away in the archives is you click on the "guitar" link and follow it back into the mists of time.
Have fun!
Shan: We musicians are incredibly lucky in that just a ten minute break playing with our "babies" is a guaranteed de-stressing and feelgood exercise.
I can't have a sanity band any more as I'm never here to gig, but I've been thinking of turning up in the studio from time to time with a bunch of friends and videoing the result for the blog. We shall see.
Katie: Hee hee hee! Always give in to temptation.
Jules: Here's to a relaxing weekend (yeah, right … as if). Hee hee.
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