I’ve FINALLY heard John Mayer’s new album. I’ve been waiting on the release of some new stuff since it was anounced last year. The album “Continuum” isn’t in stores until September 12th but thanks to the wonderful world wide web I managed to catch a “sneek peak” broadcast in Los Angeles.
Mayer thought that there was a good chance his album would leak before it is released so he decided to do the leaking himself. He took over the studio of “Star 98.7″ FM in LA for an hour and DJ’ed his entire album. John is an entertaining speaker and it made it so much better hearing the intent behind every song before it was played.
As you probably have guessed, the show is on constant loop in my car at the moment and I pretty much know all the words. Rest assured Columbia Records I will definately still go and buy the CD 
Now we wait for a tour down under …
A laptop at work, died today. It was (you guessed it!) hard-drive failure. or in the case of this teacher, a Hard “not backed up” drive failure. One of the guys at work came across an article (link is now dead) that shows a way to temporarily bring hard drives back to life – this was my chance to test it.
I removed the drive from the laptop, packed it in a plastic slip (water tight) and stuck it in the freezer! As crazy as it sounds, making the drive ice cold seems to give it about 10 minutes of life. I used a simple IDE-USB external bay to grab the documents the teacher needed and that was that!!
A handy tip for anyone who comes accross the same problem. It isn’t guaranteed but hasn’t failed us yet!
I finally found my way into the new Krispy Kreme donut store. I am working at Berwick 3 days a week at the moment and managed to get in on one of my trips to Fountain Gate. The queue had about 10 people in it – this was too long in my opinion but I still waited. To get donuts you had to spend at least $12 – very expensive. To buy 6 (which is all I wanted) it costs the same as getting 1 dozen – which is way too many.
So Mel and I enjoyed a couple each last night and are now trying to give the rest away. we don’t really understand the hype but admit they do taste nice. Next time I’m just going to wait and buy some in a group of 4 people. After all, that still works out to 3 donuts each, which still works out as too many – but will only cost me $3.
Today Mel and I ventured up into the City. We went to Allans music to pick up my New Maton. I already own a Maton semi acoustic (EM225C), but it is a base model – nearly bottom of the line. Plus, after six years of solid gigging on it, it is starting to show it’s age and lack of quality.
I had been hunting around for a decent model for ages. I had my eye on the CW80 series, but that would be just like what I have and only a little bit better. SO then I started looking at some models I thought would be quite luxurious to play – The EBG808 caught my eye because of it’s small size. For curiousities sake I decided to see what the “top of the line” model had to offer … long story short, I am now the proud ownder of a Maton EBG808-Artist series semi acoustic. The highest grade “808″ series Maton produces. It has the regular Maton (AP5 style) pickup with an extra microphone in the sound hole for added tone; the “APMic“. It is AAA grade materials and has the cool little “keyhole” headstock I have been wanting.
Tonight I took it around to Mum and David’s and we had a good long music session (with David on his new bass) which gave me a chance to put it through its paces a little. The guitar passes with flying colours. Not only is this guitar a pleasure to look at, but it is amazing to play. I can’t wait to hear it pumping through my PA at Gigs!
I have called it “Maverick”. It was tough breaking the news to my old Maton “Eugene”, but I am still keeping him for practice and as a spare for solo gigs.
A good friend of mine Rick Knight has been found recently (after he told me where he was over MSN). He has been working on something called Project Orange.
Not too sure of the details, but I look forward to seeing some of the footage of the “Canary Team” soon!
Have Fun and Keep safe Rick!
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