May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Sad news in the Simple Minds community today, with the news that Kenny Hyslop has sadly passed away. In recent months Kenny had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he described as ‘the dreaded lurgy.’ An absolute drumming legend, playing for many, including Slik. His stint with Simple Minds may have been brief but was…
In the early 1980s (as in 1980, 1981 and early into 1982) Simple Minds were accused of being “too Euro-centric” and of not putting enough of their focus into closer to home – what was happening in the UK, or even just in Glasgow itself. Why should there be criticism of such a thing? Why…
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Was sent the loveliest present by my friend, Ruth. It’s been a quiet day. Glasgow has put on some FANTABULOUS weather today. BUT! I’m “Alive And Kicking”. I have my faculties. I’m warm and safe indoors. I have my furbabies to snuggle up to. It’s all good. Yes, 2020 has been a pretty shit year…
I’m starting to get to grips with the new kit. Need to do some height and space adjustments to get it right in the sweet spots I want it in. Some audio below of me fiddling about. You can hear some of the plethora of sounds you can get from the module settings. The are…
Yesterday was the first tuition I’ve had in two months. Gareth was great. Started me back right from scratch, really. We went right back to basics. We worked on stick grip, rudiments, grooves and fills. I can’t really talk a lot about it…not really going into much detail. And it felt a lot to take…
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Woke up mega tired. Didn’t sleep that well. Had silly trivial things (in the context of things) on my mind. Set out early today and got to Mill Hill in plenty o’ time. I walk past the entrance to a park on my way to the rehearsal rooms each week. So with a bit of…
I dunno whether there is any real point in sharing these…other than to have handy snippets for myself to log POTENTIAL progress. We’ll see… The sample snippets are: me playing along to The Traveling Wilburys’ Handle With Care, some general practice incorporating hi hat pedal play and drum fills, and playing along to Make It…
Back to a full two hour session this week. Weather wise, it was pissing it down when I left the house this morning. Then it stopped for a bit. Pissed down again. Then eventually stopped for good. Mercifully didn’t get too wet. Who’d believe it’s the middle of June, eh? Blow me! Another small mercy….
This evening I played the recording of Saturday’s practice back. And, okay, yep. I do think I am probably being incredibly hard on myself. But… I need to be don’t I? Otherwise how the fuck am I ever going to get any better? Yes? But… I am so thankful I took the advice of Emily…
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I upgraded one of my art apps a few days ago. The previous Prip piece was done incorporating one of the new settings now available to me. Of course I start off a new piece tonight thinking I’d use more of the new things available to me. Nope! Much like the muse I doggedly work…