Eventually ended up using Sony Acid Studio, which allows the placement of track splits and burning directly from the programme - very good....
So for six months now, I've been sitting with various help-in-music-making type programmes on the computer hardly using them and in several cases, never having used them, and within the last week or so I have used around five or six different ones in the digital editing of this CD. This is progress...
Depending on Jamie's thoughts the new disc may still just end up being an EP....
When Ian Sclater was round yesterday he had the new Paul McCartney album with him and I took the opportunity to copy the tracks onto the hard drive....
After burning two copies of the CBQ/JJ set, I burned the McCartney tracks to a disc and assembled a makeshift cover from pics copied from the net....
It's his best album for a long time in my opinion. Apart from some guitar from ex-Jellyfish man Jason Falkner (who's two solo albums I would highly recommend - if you can find them) he plays almost all the instruments himself - just as he often did in The Beatles - and the overall sound is reminiscent of his best work with that band....
However....
This is a dilemma facing many of my favouirite artists. They are approaching their 60's (or, as in McCartney's case, are already over 60). Their seminal work is long behind them. Yet they keep plugging away producing a new album every couple of years only to have it hailed by their Record Company PR as "the best thing since ...enter name of famous album from the 60s or 70s here..."
It must be daunting to be in the middle of producing a new album, full of songs you think are great, but knowing that, when you tour, you'll only be able to fit a couple of them in amongst your greatest hits because that's what the audience expects and that, for the tour following this one, none of these songs will be well enough remembered to figure alongside your classics...
The only, ahem "classic" act I like, who don't seem to be in that position is King Crimson because they steadfastly refuse to play older material, viewing audience expectation as a cage in which they'd rather not be held captive...
Next month we're going to see Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. They have a new album coming out. I read recently that their intention, within a 3 hour show, is to play the new album in its entirety. Good for them....
The McCartney album is good by the way and much recommended if you liked his Beatles work and his early solo and Wings stuff....
Anne hates McCartney but I have a soft spot for him...
Highlight on TV tonight was Jack Dee Live at the Apollo with guest Rich Hall and a newcomer I'd never seen before. All three were excellent...
Today's pics (added exactly 15 years from today, on October 10 2020)...
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