James Bisset: 50th Anniversary Edition

If you celebrate Christmas, then I hope you have a good time.
Me, I’m off to get the tray of goodies ready for Santa and his reindeer. I find it quite thrilling that Santa and I should share the same taste in whisky.
The reindeers’ carrots I can take or leave.

Well actually, it arrived yesterday and came complete with one horizontal line of dead pixels across the lower third of the screen.
So to be completely accurate, the iMac G5 replacement arrived today.
My small bedroom studio is now almost completely impassable, with the current computer and mixer in use, the new studio equipment in boxes, [...]

Like everyone else who runs a weblog, I’m being pestered by comment spammers.
Because search engines (and Google in particular) rank sites by the number of links to them, spammers are now sending in hundreds of comments to blogs. With links in them.
And in order to make your visit a pleasant one, I have to [...]

The fuzz box kit has arrived. My first thought is that I’ll have to paint it yellow in honour of my old Tonebender, and design a ‘HIT IT!’ graphic to ornament the footswitch.
The parts for the bass have arrived too, and when I get the bass back from Manchesterguitartech where the fingerboard is being cleaned [...]

retreat:

determine date
book cottage

instruments:

wire and setup guitar
wire and setup bass
build fuzz-box
new bridge for fiddle?

Studio equipment:

Buy iMac G5
Buy Logic 7
Buy Motu 828 MkII
Set up and test all studio equipment

web site:

finish compiling samples of earlier work