Ross being a friend of mine (also the lead guitar in two bands with me over the years and the cousin of the bassist who recruited me to play in his metal band last year - more on this at the end of the post) who built an FS17 and, knowing Ross, was drunk the entire way through. We painted it at a barbecue at his place after twelve or fourteen beers and woke up expecting disaster, but actually it looked great, and I decided that a big part of success for me going forward was going to involve a lot of shrugging and just doing stuff.
Today all I did was haul the boat out of the garage and clean everything up so I could take a step without choking on primer dust. There was probably an eighth of an inch of dust on the floor, no joke. I swept everything down, moved everything, vaccuumed everything. That doesn't make for great pics but you know what does? Having the boat in the alley for a bit.
Note that the child has grown slightly since the beginning of the thread but is still very small, ergo I am not that far behind schedule.
Of course the downside is that in good light you can see I need three more coats of paint to even up that surface but I found all the paint and I do indeed have about 4.5 quarts left so I can layer it on for as long as I want, really.
Oh, here's the garage, post-clean. I realize it doesn't look very clean but if there was a good before picture, well, it's a big improvement.
Okay, back to gratuitous boat pics:
And finally I had to stuff her back in the car hole.
Oh, I did also decide to treat the boat to what I call "the Australian Flip."
Now we can picture her right side up!
Finally, only because I said I would...the bassist finally sent me a rough mix of a song from last summer's session. It hasn't been mastered and I think he had the plan to bring up the highs in the guitars a little more but anyway you probably wouldn't notice a huge difference off a youtube video anyway, I think the sound is pretty compressed.
I can't honestly say this is music I'd write if left to my own devices but as I think I said somewhere earlier in the thread, I'll do pretty much whatever if I can do it at max volume and working hard enough on stage to sweat off a few pounds. This isn't super demanding guitar work or anything but I sure worked my throat getting these vocal tracks down and by the time we're doing it live, I'll probably have shoehorned in some high-speed guitar work somewhere.
What I think I will probably do for this project is build a case for whatever guitar head I use, and put a few travelling voltage arcs inside it with just enough gaps in the case that you can see it arcing through the mesh front in an unpredictable way. I always like to play bizarre gear on stage that other musicians can't identify, and that non-musicians are a bit mesmerized by. I used to use a big stack of rack gear that had been completely blacked out, and I'd always switch it on and off on stage while wearing big electrical gauntlets, and it had a huge grounding cable that ran from the head to a big metal plate on the bottom cab, which did nothing, but of course nobody knew that but me. I'd open my guitar case, take out the lineman's gauntlets, hook up this giant ground cable to a bolt on the fake ground plate, plug my guitar into the rack, switch on about ten switches and power the whole thing up, then remove the gauntlets and put them back in my guitar case. I always figured people who come to a show, come to be entertained. I want the whole experience to be rock theatre.
At any rate here's one of the tracks we laid down last summer. If it strikes you as unlistenable, well, you were warned.
https://youtu.be/D1fkcSXAq08
