Work in progress – two tracks

My scratchpad studio – it fits in a briefcase, goes with me nearly everywhere, and I don’t know how I’d live without it now.

With all the current shenanigens that’s going in in secret, I might be looking a wee bit unproductive at the moment. I hate that, so whilst I don’t often spill beans, it’s hard to resist opening the door a little on two teensy scratchpad clips that inspired new solo tracks that are coming together.

These are two early scratchpad clips, little more than backings from which each track started to take shape. They even still have synthesised guitar parts. I’ve got loads of these little half-formed ideas cluttering up my hard drive, most of which will never get any further, but sometimes I get inspired to pick one up and work it into a finished tune.

I never throw anything away, but some of it is difficult to access – disk types and formats change, software and hardware stops working, and things can become unplayable. If only I could find a working mincdisc player… I’ve had three. The large one died and got binned, and both the pocket sized ones are now dead as well. I don’t even like to think about Jaz disks. I lost three years of work that way.