• Technical problem solved!!! I can now plug my bass into the computer and hear it when I play...which means I have officially run out of excuses not to finish my demo CD. Shit!!!! I have all the lyrics written (although they could probably use some work), and quite a few ideas for basslines and melodies, and some intros and what-not. There are definitely enough ideas to finish the CD. There was some brilliant person in history (I think it was Edison) who said, "Genius is 1% inspiration...and 99% PERSPIRATION." I have come to believe that all it takes to begin making great music is one good idea...one cool sounding bassline, one hot drum lick, one nice riff, motif, or melodic snippet. Think about it. What Hendrix did with the National Anthem, what Victor Wooten did with Amazing Grace (and other less-than-impressive in their original form tunes) on his bass, and what Jaco did with America the Beautiful is all the evidence I need to believe that. As long as it sounds musical (even if it is something as lame as Mary had a Little Lamb)...it can be developed into an awesome piece of music. And NOW...I plenty of that all-important first percent now for a complete CD. NOW...gotta get busy on sweating out the remaining ninety-nine. I have the beginnings of 4 of the 10 songs. Quite a ways to go on them all. I am JUST a bass player...yet, I have to wear the hats of composer, lyricist, arranger, sound engineer, producer. This music program on the computer should make it a little easier...once I figure out how to work it. Slowly -- but surely -- getting there. Have been listening to some great prog today. Mainly, ELP, Frost*, and Eloy. If THAT stuff can't inspsire me...NOTHING can. If there are any available Bay Area PROG musicians out there (or Bay Area bands currently without a bass player), feel free to email me. I am not arrogant enough to think I can make an amazingly awesome prog CD all by myself, (at least not on my first attempt at making music...and only playing bass for 8 years without ever having had a lesson in my life.)

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