Thank You, Republic Airlines

When I fly to a convention, I usually take my trusty Guild 6-string and try to carry it on. This has become more of a hit-or-miss proposition lately, as flights are getting more full. The original 20+ year old case was giving up the ghost, so I picked up a new Martin case from Terry at Guitar Works a few months ago.

However, allisona was asking about hard-shell cases and when I went Googling, I found that Gator now makes a flight-rated dreadnought case that isn't huge and hard to handle. Cool!

So I ran up to Gand and ordered one over lunch so I'll have it in time for GAFilk. My guitar and I will both be much happier...

Thank You, Republic Airlines

When I fly to a convention, I usually take my trusty Guild 6-string and try to carry it on. This has become more of a hit-or-miss proposition lately, as flights are getting more full. The original 20+ year old case was giving up the ghost, so I picked up a new Martin case from Terry at Guitar Works a few months ago.

However, allisona was asking about hard-shell cases and when I went Googling, I found that Gator now makes a flight-rated dreadnought case that isn't huge and hard to handle. Cool!

So I ran up to Gand and ordered one over lunch so I'll have it in time for GAFilk. My guitar and I will both be much happier...

Closer to Fine

Well, I've now got vocals down for Sharing and Look At Me, including some backup parts in each case. daisy_knotwise convinced me that it was better to go for performance than for absolute purity on the latter song and overall I have to agree with her.

I'll probably try retaking Falling Toward Orion tomorrow to see if I can improve on it and we'll take a run at the duets. But we now have enough stuff recorded to be ready for the weekend's recording session, which is good.

The bad news is that I had been looking at taking Monday off to finish catalana's recording if needed. However, a "can't miss" meeting has been scheduled for Monday morning. On the other hand, given the hours we keep in the studio, I bet I can go to the meeting and come home to record without actually missing any productive time. Sleep, on the other hand...

Closer to Fine

Well, I've now got vocals down for Sharing and Look At Me, including some backup parts in each case. daisy_knotwise convinced me that it was better to go for performance than for absolute purity on the latter song and overall I have to agree with her.

I'll probably try retaking Falling Toward Orion tomorrow to see if I can improve on it and we'll take a run at the duets. But we now have enough stuff recorded to be ready for the weekend's recording session, which is good.

The bad news is that I had been looking at taking Monday off to finish catalana's recording if needed. However, a "can't miss" meeting has been scheduled for Monday morning. On the other hand, given the hours we keep in the studio, I bet I can go to the meeting and come home to record without actually missing any productive time. Sleep, on the other hand...