2004Archive

I wrote recently about all the effort that goes in to trying to get your band noticed by the right people in Dig the archives (and weep).
Here’s a good example. Some bands take their names from a line in…

Yes, the headstock is finally finished. The sanding and polishing was completed tonight, the guitar has been re-assembled and I fully expect the nuts and files to arrive tomorrow.
Let’s just hope it sounds as good as it looks.…

I’ve started adding pictures to the web site from the extensive Bisset archive. Not that it’s that extensive really – trying to hold the guitar, the pose, the mirror and the camera proved quite difficult.
So I had to resort…

I started this project to celebrate my 50th year and do something definitive with all those years of experience. Then it became obvious that I needed to explain what exactly that experience was. And so I wrote a couple of…

I bought my nuts and files from Warmoth in the States, who previously supplied the body, neck and bridge for my guitar. I’ve been watching the progress of my package across the world via the UPS site which is very…

I’ve added a couple more coats of cellulose after the rubbing and levelling a few days ago, just to make sure I don’t cut through when it comes to the final smoothing and polishing.
I’ll give it a few days…

So, the project will mean writing, recording and publishing songs…
The question remains, how do I distribute the material without some shifty bastard coming along and ripping me off?
I must, at some point, have a rant about the state…

Writing the bio has been educational, not to say traumatic. it gave me the urge to start digging out old tracks so that you, the reader, might choose to become you, the listener. At least it would give you some…

Rather than the usual method of using decals on the headstock of the guitar, I used a ‘rubdown’ – which is the same technology that Letraset originally built their fortune on.
It’s not easy to get rubdowns to stick to…

Time creeps on apace etc…
I’ve been tweaking, which is always a terrible timewaster, but probably important in the long run. I can’t get the engine which runs this web log to use what is known as ‘permalinks’ – which…