Had a wonderful blissful jam
Had a wonderful blissful jam in Ed’s studio last week - Ed was playing a new harmonica through his new amp and mic, Jan and Neil were also there swapping around an electric and an accoustic guitar. I was reduced to borrowing Jan’s accoustic bass guitar, and playing it unamplified, so I was more felt than heard throughout despite plucking so hard that at times the strings nearly cut my fingertips off.
Neil had his minidisc with him, so despite some technical glitches we managed to record these few tracks (some lovely happy giggling fits in there… as I said, you can’t really hear anything I’m playing for the most part, but you can tell I’m there when were plodding along nicely in straight fours and suddenly the whole thing shoots into 31/16 time or something equally whacky).
We were a bit concerned about neighbours, and wrapped it up fairly early to avoid annoying anybody, but when I went out to grab a glass of water I met one of the women from upstairs and she was exuberant: “I’m so glad I was here tonight, it’s been wonderful listening to you play.” Was a lovely moment, made me feel all warm and happy.