I hit the jackpot today.
It feels like I've been trying to get magazines out of the storage unit that my Mom has for at least a year. And somehow, every single time I've been up to visit, it has either been snowing or raining or we've run out of time.
So, sure enough, I went up there this weekend, and it poured all day yesterday, and it poured for most of today. The silver lining in all of this is that the rain stopped for about an hour over the noon hour today, and so we were able to get to the storage shed.
I grabbed all of the old issues of Guitar World Acoustic that had been sitting in plastic tubs for time out of mind. There's still other magazines to get out of there, but with the extra focus on acoustic stuff this year, those Acoustic issues were the things I really wanted. Just glancing through them briefly today got me pumped up all over again. There's great transcriptions in those issues, and cool lessons, and there are probably articles on records that I've stumbled onto in the years since those issues were published. There are also probably record reviews and articles on artists that I will go out and find now and love.
So, there may not have been much in the way of playing today, but it was still a great day in terms of getting some of the big acoustic resources back to the studio. The rest of the week will likely be spent on an acoustic binge (while also trying to figure out where the new pile of magazines will fit into the organization of things.
It feels like I've been trying to get magazines out of the storage unit that my Mom has for at least a year. And somehow, every single time I've been up to visit, it has either been snowing or raining or we've run out of time.
So, sure enough, I went up there this weekend, and it poured all day yesterday, and it poured for most of today. The silver lining in all of this is that the rain stopped for about an hour over the noon hour today, and so we were able to get to the storage shed.
I grabbed all of the old issues of Guitar World Acoustic that had been sitting in plastic tubs for time out of mind. There's still other magazines to get out of there, but with the extra focus on acoustic stuff this year, those Acoustic issues were the things I really wanted. Just glancing through them briefly today got me pumped up all over again. There's great transcriptions in those issues, and cool lessons, and there are probably articles on records that I've stumbled onto in the years since those issues were published. There are also probably record reviews and articles on artists that I will go out and find now and love.
So, there may not have been much in the way of playing today, but it was still a great day in terms of getting some of the big acoustic resources back to the studio. The rest of the week will likely be spent on an acoustic binge (while also trying to figure out where the new pile of magazines will fit into the organization of things.
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