Mike's Ramblings...

I have up until now never broken a string in public.

I've broken one in a dress rehearsal (twice) and I've broken one in an orchestra pit while hidden from the public and with a second guitarist to cover.

At yesterday's Fleetfoot Mike gig I broke the G on my white Les Paul as we were checking levels 2 mins before we started the set. Rich (sound engineer) grabbed the guitar to change it, while I played the first song on my spare Les Paul. I got the white one back for Dreams, got as far as the high G->A bend on the top E before the last chorus, and... plink.

First time for everything.

Well.

Tis done. And my god what a palaver the last bit was.

We booked in for Tuesday 9-11am so Mal and I could fix a couple of things.

Monday morning, the phone rings at work. It's Andy-the-studio: the very nice Mackie HDR2496 hard disk recorder he uses died in the middle of backing it up. With the latest copy of the three current customers' projects on the main disk drive..

( I know more about the HDR2496 than I did 2 days ago! )