2004Archive

This is sad.. Really it is.
Ruth has gone out (”Ru-ubee, don’t take your love to town”), the kids are asleep and I’ve got a chance to rewire the guitar, or work through the backlog of tapes, or research cottages…

Some of the more assiduous amongst you may have noticed a brief hiatus on my progress blog. Well it’s only bloody Xmas coming isn’t it!
I hasten to add that this has nothing to do with that great festival where…

I’ve just realised that my set of first principles has one crucial principle – no the first pre-eminent first principle missing.
And that principle would be, Jim?
“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
It’s alright, I’ve just updated the…

Well the good news is that I’ve identified a few cottages which are basically miles from anywhere and about 2 to 3 hours drive from Manchester.
I’m also aiming at going off on the project at the end of January…

So I’ve built the shelves and started sorting out the piles of cassettes that will be stored on them. I’ve bought a cassette deck, plugged it into the system and arghhh! Is that me!
Or, more soberly, I’ve added a…

OK – I admit it: I have a thing about rock journalism. I stopped reading rock reviews years ago because so much of it was utterly bewildering (a bit like this sentence; can rock reviews be an ‘it’?).
It’s as…

I’ve changed the format of the music section. It still covers only a short section of my long and varied career, but it’s now a little bit more accessible.
Instead of linking full length tracks, you can now listen to…

I’ve re-organised the guitar section of the web site. The history of the guitars I’ve used has been moved over to the biography section where it rightly belongs, and the 50th Anniversary Strat now has a page of its own…

Well, the nuts and files finally arrived and I’ve strung the James Bisset 50th Anniversary guitar, opened up the current nut with the files to suit my strings and played it for a while. I’m afraid it makes the old…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – oh bugger!
Since I started putting pics on the site to accompany the biography, I’ve been pestered to add more. For some reason, you want to see pictures of this…