It is fine to change your position on something after fifty years....

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room

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The Osmonds - Phase III

David Bowie - Sound + Vision

Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden

The Beatles - The Beatles (Super Deluxe Remix)

The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones No. 2

David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed

Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place

The Beatles - 1 (2015 Remix)

Carly Simon - The Best Of Carly Simon

Various Artistsv101 Pirate Radio Hits

Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection

Eagles - One Of These Nights

Johnny Cash - Man In Black: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

Elvis Presley - Elvis At The Movies - 60 Essential Recordings

David Bowie - Station To Station (2016 Remastered Version)

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Jam - Sound Affects

Joni Mitchell - For The Roses

Roxy Music - Siren

Neil Diamond - The Essential Neil Diamond

Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis

Alice Cooper - Road

February away, with its extra day this year...

Up early as is the usual way...

Once again started the day with "The Dark Room" - this time, it seemed ok...

The new regime of shutting down/restarting seems to be working...

Views...

Banana for breakfast...

Work to day included recording the podcast that should have been out last weekend and posting it up...

Also, creating new between set mixes for the Dockers gig - tracks by all the artists on the poster but none of the tracks we will play - do you see what I did there?

Poster and tickets printed for the club notice board and bar - hopefully they will shift a few...

Downloading today comprised, mostly, The Osmonds...

They were in fact and in hindsight, much, much better than I ever gave them credit for at the time...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Today's New Music:-

Things you think will last, and which appear to be doing so, sometimes don't...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room

Capital Models - Reference Sets

Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things

The Beatles - 1967-1970

Carly Simon - No Secrets

Various Artists - 101 Running Songs

Lou Reed - Transformer

Eagles - Eagles

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison [Live]

David Bowie - Heroes

Stereophonics - Language, Sex, Violence, Other?

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River

The Jam - Sound Affects

Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon

Roxy Music - Siren

Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up

Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

Stealers Wheel - Stealers Wheel

Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis

Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Eagles - Hotel California

Lou Reed - Transformer (RM)

The Undertones - The Undertones

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Best Years Of Our Lives

David Bowie - Lodger

Status Quo - Hello!

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Elton John - Honky Chateau

Etta James - At Last!

Far From Saints - Far From Saints

Neil Young - Freedom

The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons (US Version)

Midweek...

Up at 5:30 and listening back to what I thought was the finalised mix and master of "The Dark Room" on Bandcamp, I realised there was some element of distortion on two of the four tracks...

So, spent the first three hours of the day remixing the tracks, plus their 7", Instrumental and 7" instrumental counterparts, mastering them all again and reuploading....  

Rocky popped by for precisely two minutes to provide some support...

Post breakfast, Fang also popped by...

On his exit after around 20 minutes, he slashed Anne's leg...

It's just what he does and we have no idea why...

"Leverage" and "Loudermilk" continued to entertain...

A playlist of all the original versions of our wedding setlist was put together, from the original LPs rather than comps, nine of which had to be acquired to do so - all in order to create a poster for the gig...

A quick and early tea...

...of tasty sausages and some chips, resulted in the front tooth repair I got almost 12 years ago being reversed...

...which is extremely annoying and somewhat embarrassing...

I have appointments lined up for later this month...

To the fives for the first time in 17 weeks...

It went much better than I ever imagined...

I was on the winning side - only my 4th game of "the season" but the 3 points lifted me at last off the bottom of the table...

Have put my name down for next week and will struggle through the leg pain for the next few days...

This evening, I reckoned Dio was probably the best heavy metal band ever...

...while Anne watched Hearts draw 1-1 with arch rivals Hibernian at Tynecastle on a rainswept night - the night of the Shankland Penalty Pie Incident...

Highlight of the Day : Cat visits...

Today's New Music:-

The hill, the club, the nosh...

Playlist

Rainbow - Rainbow Rising

The Golden Dogs - The Golden Dogs

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room

glass beach - plastic death

Counterweight - Counterweight

Acceleration Due to Gravity - Jonesville

Advancing on A Wild Pitch - Disasters Vol 2

Friends and Neighbors - Circles

Throttle Elevator Music - Retrorespective

Rammstein - Herzeleid

A busy day ahead...

Scenes...

...and coffee...

Mastering the remaining tracks for "The Dark Room", uploading it all to Bandcamp and starting to write the credits and sleevenotes...

Eggs for breakfast...

Out around 11:30 or so...

And down the hill...

We had our walking shoes on...

A bus to the Bridges and down the Royal Mile to Holyrood...

...to meet up with Ranger Sam...

...for a guided walk into Arthur's seat's environs...

Calton Hill, in the distance, was pointed out...

Then, as we went further in, out last view of the city...

Sam's expertise lay in geology so a lot of very, very long ago history was imparted to the group...

Apparently this rock comes from the hill we walked down this morning, five miles or so away...

It took a few million years inside a glacier to get here...

It was touched by the hand of the beast...

...and two possible future "Disquietmusik" album covers were taken...

On, to "the beach"...

...where the different wavelengths in the rocks signify the era in which they were "laid down", man...

The changeable weather provided occasional good views...

Our happy group, from Scotchland and around the world...

Purposeful striding from the Exec Producer...

...and more stories - many millions of years ago, Arthur's Seat was a volcano and, many millions of years after that but still many millions of years ago, 2.5 km of ice lay on top of the hill we see today...

The city swung back into view...

...as we made our way down the hill...

..to Hunter's Bog - nothing to do with Hunters but, rather, named for a Dutch engineer, who assisted with the reclaiming of bogland and, for his efforts, was rewarded with...

A bog...

...which the EP enjoyed the look of...

Almost at the end of the walk, views of St Margaret's Loch and the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel...

...and Ranger Sam showed us some very rare plants that he, personally has conserved and nurtured - along with rare insects and beasties - including nightly toad protection adventures...

And over...

A good couple of hours with interesting chat, great views and wee bit of mud...

From Holyrood, a walk down past Abbeyhill, Easter Rd and to Leith to the Dockers Club...

...to suss it out as a possible rehearsal/gig venue for the band...

...and, lo, it was good and will fit the proverbial bill...

We celebrated with drinks...

...before walking futher to the Shore in search of an early dinner...

Nothing was found though so we walked back to Leith Walk and found ourselves at Desi Pakwa...

...for a shared plate of very tasty but unpictured pakora, followed by this lot...

Yum!

A tram to Haymarket and a bus home, arriving around 7.5 hours after leaving...

Coffee and telly were the order of the evening...

A very enjoyable day indeed...

Highlight of the Day : Arthur's Seat, the club, the Indian...

Today's New Music:-