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I accidentally clicked on something in Hotmail and found myself in the
midst of my Windows Live Messenger account, a lot of nonsense that
could enable me to keep in touch with my entire universe 24/7 at the
flicker of an eyelid and tell the waiting world what I'm up to. Well,
in lieu of me telling the eagerly bated World At Large what I'm up to (is that baited as in a fish hook or is there a condition known as bated
that applies to breathing?), Windows Messenger seems to have taken it
upon itself to carry the news in big letters that Eric Is Not Up To
Anything.
I felt that I was being chastised for not joining in - my
first reaction was to change it, but that would involve joining in and
my choice is not to. I choose not to because I'm not having peer
pressure applied by some virtual big brother bully boy.
Eric
is far from Idle (ha ha ha) - I'm busy with Alan Clayson's album. It's
been taking a long time. I've created most of the backing tracks myself
with guidance from demo cassettes recorded at The Clayson Laboratory of
Lo-fi Intergalactica. A bit difficult because he uses two or three
different cassette recorders, transferring stuff between them, and none
of them run at the correct (or should we say accepted)
speed. So it's fairly tricky trying to determine the key signature. And
as for the timing, there's a time signature somewhere between 2/4 and
3/4 which is peculier only to Alan. It's quite a job but the results
are fabulous. I've played most of the instruments myself with piano
contributions from Amy and our friend Graham Beck, and a couple of
appearances from Ian Button on the drums , and of course Alan on piano
and harmonium ('I shall have legs like whipcord').
We're
nearing completion now, I'm looking forward to another visit from Alan
to finish the remaining vocal overdubs and then I'll be mixing it.
When
we started, a couple of years ago, Alan said he'd like to make an album
like Bungalow Hi. 'That might take some time' I said, and I was right,
it has. I hope the finished album shows at least a few people what a
great talent Alan Clayson really is.
That's what I've been up to for
the past couple of days. And apart from that if anyone can be bothered,
just tell that nosey parker Messenger thing that te Trident desk is
improving daily and looking forward to a complete new set of faders. Here's another photo:
3:59 PM
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