Out in the studio putting

March 12, 2002

Out in the studio putting together things for the Kids in the Hall tour. Its crunch time. Not a lot on my brain except that and my family. Trying to plug whatever revelations I have into the music. Fooled around with a banjo tuning today to get a certain sound down. Banjos get a bum rap. Frank Gormley (Colin James, Midnight Oil, Spirit of the West...guitar tech) says that the definition of perfect pitch is throwing an accordian and having it land on a banjo. If you apply patience to the picking you can sound OK on a banjo pretty quickly. That doesn't mean you're any good. Its just a tribute to the instrument. It allows you to fluke off a few things and then it probably bucks you into the air like a baby on a bronco. With a bit of cut & paste I got through the flukey part and called it quits just in time. Foggy Mountain Breakdown tomorrow.