Barbie House now has a little Barbie-sized TV with built-in VCR (I don’t have any tapes, though), and a couple spare pieces of furniture. I got offered a big entertainment center type thing, which I’ll take if they can get it here—I can look at it and be entertained, I guess. No Internet yet—the computer store sold me a router that won’t work with Windows 98 (maybe nothing does any more). So much for trusting your local geek.
Past couple of weeks, all the music I’ve done is play lead guitar at the Tuesday night country dance in Rogue River; the other musicians there are starting to expect me, though, and that’s nice. Next Sunday, maybe, I will be able to be back at the Wild Goose. No new songs, though.
An offer from one of my favorite sound-engineers-I’ve-never-met (he’s in New York City) to master existing *.mp3 files to record quality. To do the whole “Cat with the Strat” album would cost a little over $100, and that’s a good deal, I think. Another $45 each to do the copyright forms for the songs (over half of which are collaborations), and we’re looking at more than the cost of the last album already.
The “Dirty Deeds Done to Sheep” album—all original material, done with the band, whoever they may be—will likely cost $750 to record and mix. That’s about 50% more than the “Santa’s Fallen” CD did, but prices are a lot higher here, all driven by the high cost of land. We’re into October now—time to line up the band so we can get practiced. Thursday night may be my best shot at stopping by Johnny B.’s tavern and talking to him.
Johnny on bass, Dan on mandolin, Russ on congas; I know a blues harp player, and a couple good lead guitarists (one of them REALLY good)—and a flute player. Has anyone ever used a flute on country music? It’d be fun to try. I could hear a flute lead on “Milepost 43,” “Roadkill Christmas,” and “Dead Things in the Shower."
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