Take a break, have a breakfast and a rehearsal...

Playlist

A busy day ahead as I fired up the machines...

Got as much done as I could, before having to head out at 8:45...

...soundtracked by my old LPs on shuffle...

...but noted Barclay James Harvest Live had to be redownloaded, as the version I have on my drives was a vinyl rip...

Done...

Out, leaving Anne sleeping...

Down the hill...

...and a bus to Haymarket...

Now soundtracked by "Swan Songs" - out at the end of the year...

A meet up with Dr Prog - who had to check headphones he'd accidentally stood on this morning - all fine...

A nice Turkish place...

Hot drinks...

...and a tasty, if rather expensive for what it was, breakfast - mine, eggs, potatoes and cheese, the Doc's, spinach and eggs...

Good chat ensued - topics - new music, headphones, being duped, Genesis live in early 1974, Miles Davis in Glasgow 1990, my stupid illness of buying too many CDs, etc etc...

We were at the Flatbread Turkish Bakery House...

Nice...

We parted at 11 - I had to get home to prep for a band rehearsal this afternoon...

On the way, milk and boots...

Once home, no lunch required...

I worked on the arrangement for "Blitzkrieg Bop", which we would play this afternoon for the first time since June 2022...

"David Baddiel Cat Man" partially enjoyed before loading the car and heading for Roslin at 1:30 for a 2pm start...

Rehearsing songs for a party in early March...

Set 1

The In Crowd

Let's Spend the Night Together

Virginia Plain

Boys Keep Swinging

Teenage Kicks

The Jean Genie

Keep On Running

Caroline/Let's Stick Together

I Can't Explain

Blitzkrieg Bop 

Rock'n'Roll/Hey Jude Coda

Set 2

A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall

Dakota

Human

Brown Sugar

Crazy Horses

Blue Suede Shoes

Rocket Man

All went well - quite a lot of the first session spent fine tuning stuff...

Home around 5:30..

Keralan Chicken Curry for tea - yum...

"Lyndley" enjoyed...

Then, upstairs to work...

First though, today's CD Box...

Almost half were Chopin...

 ...but I chose some slightly more oblique piano works....

 ...by 20th Century Italian composer, Niccolo Castiglioni...

Like yesterday's Carter, the correct mood is required or it's just tuneless rubbish...

Then, to editing today's sessions...

Set 1

 1hr 21 edited to just 38 mins - loads of work on those...

Set 2

35 mins edited to 25 mins...

Total

1hr 56 edited to 1hr 3 mins...

Productive...

Sent out to the boys in the band - the cover commemorating the KitKat intake at half time...

Ended the day with two episodes of "Chicago PD", as we moved into Season 5...

Bed post midnight...

Highlight of the Day: Meet up with Dr Prog/Rehearsing...

Today's New Music: