Thirty one and nothing found...

Playlist

Up and at 'em...

Everything done re the daily tasks by just after seven, soundtracked by "Broken"...

Then, more music listening - a couple of new things...

Breakfast at 9...

...and determining the four best new releases from yesterday, while enjoying the fourth...

Week old tulips still doing well...

Back to the machines briefly, to ensure the stuff I wanted to listen to today, while out and about, was on the mobile listening machine...

With Anne off out shopping and going to Tynecastle later on, I walked down the hill at 10:30...

...for a bus into town...

...alighting at Haymarket for the start of a long trawl around chazzas in search of more CDs I really don't need...

Around Haymarket...

...three shops were visited, one wasn't open yet and nothing in the other two...

A bus along to Shandwick Place...

Another fruitless search...

Then, a visit to Fopp, noting they had the new Tangerine Dram for £15...

A chat with manager Paul - I asked him if CDs were picking up - he said definitely - people are going  back to CD because vinyl is just too expensive...

A bus up to Tollcross...

Two more shops...

Swithered about a 12CD Naxos box of Bruckner's complete symphonies for £15 but did not pull the trigger...

Lunch at Subway - not had one for a few years now - I'd forgotten how good they can be...

One more shop at Tollcross (missing another, as a bus arrived as I emerged from this one, still empty-handed)...

Up to Morningside...

A total of eleven shops visited here...

This was the only thing of interest I saw - I sent a pic to Macclesfield Craig, following his shed story yesterday...

A bus from here over to Surgeon's Hall and another eight shops...

All visits again proving fruitless...

I was being soundtracked by Yes's last two LPs and the recent Jon Anderson disc...

  

Controversial opinion...

I enjoyed all three LPs but it seems to me that, while Yes’s two are pushing Yes music forwards (for better or for worse), Anderson’s record, while brilliantly played and produced, sounds more like what people might think Yes ought to sound like...

There’s zero progress on “True”, merely facsimile from players who play live with Mr A, producing facsimile's of Yes's old classics...

Wich, it could be argued, is what the current line up of Yes do but, somehow, their new music seems actually "new"...

Anyway, a bus down to Stockbridge...

Another five shops, taking the total of chazz's trawled through to a massive thirty-one...

A good way to spend a Saturday?

Hmmm...

Noted Oxfam are selling old NME's for £10 a pop...

Ooofft...

Last one and still nothing found...

A bus back to Shandwick Place to catch the 26 home - but, I popped back to Fopp and bought the Tangerine Dream 2CD set - "50 Years of Phaedra - Live at the Barbican" and caught the bus, stopping off in Corstorphine to buy some Cherry Pepsi Max...

As you do...

A walk down from the Terminus... 

I'd been away for five and a half hours...

Anne was out at the football - Hearts scraping a 1-0 win against Falkirk...

Nephew Olly was in the Directors' Box with his boss from the SFA...

In Dumfries, Queens went 2-0 down to Montrose within 13 minutes but pulled back to 2-2 with 10 minutes left and all the stats were on their side to get a winner...

Final score?  Queen of the South 2, Montrose 3...

Goddammit...

Was monitoring the footie while taking in the next two preposterous episodes of "Fallout"...

Anne arrived home and I brought the wee CD player down to the living room and enjoyed the new T Dream...

My listening included a break for a tasty chicken based tea...

...and its 2.5 hours took me to the end of the Curling final - GB just losing out to Canada...

An "Astrid", the dishes and the Scottish and English football highlights took us to the end of the day...

Just before bed, today's CD box...

Pleyel to Prokofiev...

Chose this Preisner disc...

Recorded with Teresa Salgueiro, erstwhile singer from Portuguese faves, Madredeus...

I will listen tomorrow perhaps...

For now, off to bed with the set we'll play at the party on 6 March in the cans - prep for tomorrow's trio rehearsal...

Highlight of the Day: Tangerine Dream...

Today's New Music: