Progress

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…

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.
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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…