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Waiting and Waiting

Don’t you hate waiting, at the dentist or for the cable guy or the automobile association.

On a recent rehearsal with Jon Bickley with we played our next gig set 3 times in a row. A bit of a workout, but we also videoed it too. Next week we will do the same thing again. Its for a gig in Amersham in a month or so. I don’t play many gigs these days and I also play with several bands, duos and also solo. These days every gig is often completely different. As time has gone on my personal position in terms of security and finance has become more stable whereas other people i know are now now not so assured and comfortable as they were.
I am still very anxious which is triggered I believe mostly by personal issues, but almost any new activity it seems can set it off. Good bad or different or indifferent. Even if it’s something I am really looking forward to. Crazy.

So today is a waiting day. Ho Hum. Blogg on then. I have a new tune, but not all words for it yet.
And very little inspiration either. I have drawn a mental blank.
Feelings though do wash over me at times, a little out of control and they rattle my cage.

Currently I am playing with the vocal processor on a track. Its quite an interesting sound as I am singing quite jazzy lines and the effect is both pleasing but also very weird harmonically. I will put on a “straight” vocal line too and maybe use a bit of both in the mix. I have no idea if this track will work as its got very weird. Its definitely a marmite song. But sometimes you just have to let loose and get off the leash. Its brewing up for something though.

This is a tune of Vicky Martins which was finished after her death.

This a lyric that I am using in a new song that’s currently in the process of being recorded.
It will be either too weird or very good 😂

Lost to others in all but dreams

Today is the day you thought you were waiting for.

All worries and sin is cleansed and swept away, but you don’t feel any better.
You just sit reading that letter, is it better to have loved and lost at all.
One day you will get the call, then you will stumble and you will fall. And wonder how this ever came to be. One moment on the bank then you slip into the stream and times current pulls your head under and you are lost to others in all but dreams.

I wish that you had held your hand out and i could have grabbed it very tight. I would have held onto you and pulled with all my might. My grip though would be as tight as days have passed and strength has withered on the vine. And then you slip out of my grasp.

Today is the day that you will never know, that you never knew. But we that still see you are all left behind.

D.Stone

A partial lyric.

Some of the graphic humour of Vicky Martin

A proper gig

I played a good old fashioned rip roaring pub gig last Saturday with the Sonic Boomers at a country pub in an outdoor marquee. It was a bit cold and we were worried that there would not be enough brave souls willing to step out into the wild outdoors but we had a good crowd and we played well. For a brief moment it felt like old times again. This weeks going to be a quiet one though with no rehearsals or social contact so it may be a bit hard going.

I am still having a bit of a mental fight about certain aspects of my life. My inner life is very weird at times as is my inner dialogue. Yes I am strangely strange at times. Don’t overthink it is the rule. The old bones are complaining too as its raining again.

Diana Stone at The Music Palace, Crouch End
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    Washed Away By Time And TIde I Still Abide by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Fairy Light Song Fantasy by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    An instrumental track from 1997
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    Happy Apocalypse by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Mellow Synth slow vibe with Violin
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    To Get Out There by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Believe In Luck by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Welcome To My World Of Woo by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Vocal Ballad
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    Everything Goes To Pieces by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Simple instrumental vibe
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    Light Of A 1000 Stars by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Lyrics: "Let me try and tell you how I feel now. The world is shattering around me like broken glass. I am not under attack but I know that you are, but you are aiming at the wrong target. "
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    A mellow chromatic piano tune
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    Edgy Song
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    It's the stuff that dreams are made of or perhaps nightmares.
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    Mellow soundtrack world vibe with violin and keys
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    Lets Plan A Great Escape by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Moody Instrumental film music old school
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    Crossover model jazz world fusion track with violin and Guitar synths and keys

How To Keep It All Together

The world is rumbling on toward destruction as ever, its difficult to ignore and hard to understand and exhausting and depressing to think about.

I am lost in a bit of a fog. I have stuff happening which is good though. I do feel very tired quite often, much more often that I use to. Is it just age related? I am OK when I am out and about doing stuff but often on a day at home I just seem to run out of energy. My home is comfortable and I have everything I need here plus my music room/studio which I do use quite often. But just recently I seem to be doing a lot of staring into space. I still have boxes of stuff packed from when we moved 6 years ago that I can’t face sorting out.

This is song from 2022 that needs a bit more love I think. Why not give it a listen and see what you feel.

Elephant Shelf in their heyday in Brighton at The Joogleberry Playhouse.

Remember, don’t take yourself too seriously.

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