Status Report

As you may have noticed I haven't been vary active lately. Time has been limited and ideas have been few. I do have a couple projects in the works but I'm taking my time with them. At my peak I always seemed to have a few projects done and on deck. It has been interesting to watch the weekly Top 5 list change from day to day and readership seems to be steady so thanks to all of you still stopping by.

In an effort to keep things alive around here I'll be adding another feature. I will be going through each post and add a section called Hindsight. Starting with my first post and working my way up to the present, both here and on my Beatles blog, I'll give a short review on how I feel the project has stood up, how it might be different if I made the construction today and if the project has made its way onto my iPod.

It is rare that I would redo a project so don't expect actual updates but if something is easy to fix I'll include the how and why. For the most part I am happy with at least 90% of the work I have posted. Any changes are most likely related to song choices and track order.

Since my 160gb iPod died I have been using my old 30gb which means space is a bit more tight so a comp has to be special to make it on there. To maximize my walking around music I make my own "best of" comps of 5 to 20 songs for artists that I am either not familiar with their whole catalog or those that have huge discographies but only a handful of songs I find appealing. Others I have my favorite albums with a best of the rest comp. There are a few groups that I have all studio albums on there but to reduce redundant songs I leave the live albums off.

A reader recently contacted me about my ELP concept that I introduced in my last posts and asked if they could run with the idea for their own projects. I was fine with it and gave them the OK and I am looking forward to seeing what they do with it. But it got me thinking about double albums and the ELP format in general. I've discussed my feelings about double albums many times here so I won't repeat myself but I am not as militant about it as I seem to be. Many double albums will fit on a single CD thus they will fit in the ELP format. A single CD is easier to deal with than two. My vision is any album between 50 and 70 minutes I would consider an ELP. I'll discuss any construction here that may apply in my Hindsight feature.

So stay tuned, There is more to come. In the meantime, keep checking in and be sure to visit my friends on the blogroll on the right. We all have different tastes and methods so I know you can find some great stuff from them. I know I have. Share the love. Play hard but play safe.

The cover art for this post is the cover for my band's upcoming release. We are an indy-indy basement band that records in my home project studio on the weekends so work goes slow but the new album is getting closer to being done. When it's finished we will release it on ReverbNation and on our website and hopefully on Spotify. We give our music away for free so download all you want. We all have decent day jobs so no need to complicate things. I'll post it here as well.