'79 Ibanez LEE RITENOUR

One of my favorites.

Acoustic Tile Arrived and Deployed

On your left as you enter the room. The guitars i'll be using most.

Back wall with the new AuraLex Ported Acoustic Tile. It's supposed to be a Diffuser and an absorber etc. Sounds pretty good even though it's not finished yet.  All the tile will be done tomorrow. (Wednsday).  Then it'll be time to put up photo's and posters.

These are the six amp setups I will be using. I'll list them, but will wait to give an overview of each one.

On the top, left is a 1962 Epiphone Devon Tremelo.

In the Middle, top is a Marshall Valvestate 20.

On the top right is my Reverend KingSnake (No it's not for sale.)

Bottom left is a Sleeper Amp: a much modified Vox Reverb Twin.

A Mad in the USA Crate 16 sits on a Cab extention

containing a Weber Blue Pup 12" Speaker.

Far right is a Koch Studiotone 20 Head

sitting on top of a Reverend "Cowboy" Cabinet

containing a Jenson Neo 12" Speaker.

This wall is on your right, as you enter the room. You can seethe Synth.
The bookcase is there to control paperwork and sheet music, as well
as magazines and books of general interest. There is just a little bit of tile up there, but a short session with a PRS McCarty and the Fender Bassman run throughthe Marshall Cab with 2x12 Celestion Speakers sounded just great  I ran it very crunchy on the Bridge Pup and the Ice-Picky Death Treble and the top end zingyness was gone. Very close to being completely done now!

Finished Studio

 Just a couple of photos of the painted walls and a shelf or two.
My Synth, which I love Already! I am going to bring back Disco!
Donna Summer is back home in Somerville; I'll look her up.
I'm loading my stuff in tomorrow. Saturday - maybe I'll get help.
My acoustic foamy tile thingies are due to arrive tomorrow or Monday.
Great job Sweetwater! I'll need to "tune" the room to make it sound
great for recording live. I'll be recording live to tape and digital.
Where do you get extra digitals? I got lots of tape left over from the '60's.


The window on the far wall is blocked in, and locked up.

No  security risk there! ( I hope )

A few guitars already in there.
The digital recorder is there. I'll get the monitors up and away to get them in the best "hearing" position. Right now, the room is not usable, as the sound needs to be tamed. Diffusers and absorbers will be put up soon.

IF THIS IS OCTOBER - IT MUST BE JACK KEROUAC

I read this poem, among others, at a few bars tonight. A final Beat wrap-up of the few remaining hipsters still in Lowell.  A lot of Jack's fans don't understand the depth of Jack's feelings for Catholicism. There are reasons why some hipsters were beat. It had to do with a lot of things, but they truly wept for their brothers and sisters. They had come off WWII, and knew what man was capable of doing and of tolerating. They wept because, they too, were human beings. I can see Saint Michael sharpening  his sword, aware of the deed he must perform.  This year, see Jack as that Catholic School Boy; not the man consumed by his demons.

WHY ANGELS CRY

... for Jack Kerouac

No one cries

as long

or as hard-

As a wounded Angel.

No one bleeds

  as deep

or so red-

As a wounded Angel.

so:

St. Michael

Waits.

Listening to his brothers

Sing.

STUDIO UPDATE !

Almost there! The garage has been divided into two rooms, a small shed to store the John Deere and snow shovels etc.  And a 12x14 Music Room!  All the wood work has been done as well as the painting. Tomorrow, I but the olde fashioned cork board acoustic tiles.  Wednesday, is Carpet Remnent Day.  A Beigy, light grey, something neutral . I can literally throw a throw rug under the Mastering Area. Then we can begin moving all my stuff out there; thereby reclaiming our Formal Living Room. Of course, once we do this, we will have no use for the living room!  Last year we added a Family Room with Jotul wood stove and a biggish flatish TV.  Of course, 1/3 of our family is now living on her own, plotting a future that could include: Fashion Designer, Marine Biologist, Politician, First Female Ranger or Pro Wrestler.

One Day at a Time.

LOCAL VARIATIONS - small town timeless poems - little poems

In 1958, my small town started a Little League. Four teams; one each from the very different parts of town. The farm boys from Kenwood, the farm boys from Collinsville, the Public Servants from Dracut Center,  and the tough Irish kids from the Navy Yard. Feuds were started in that long ago summer that last 'till today. (I'm truly sorry Tom Molton)


The adult volunteers worked long nights after work, whipping fields into shape so their sons could experience the combat of hardball without the pleasures of cow pies and random rocks placed Murphy like, in just the right karmic position.


Little did we know, we were to be a small part of a larger saga. A story that continues today on the same, vastly improved ball fields. But in 1958, the men ran out of money and in Hovey Square Park, local ground rules had to be established. There was no fence in left field.

Local Variations

Louisville Slugger War Club

held

Ground Rule Birch Tree

double-

no fence-

all you can get

to the left

-in the puddles

      tadpoles relentless.

Beaver brook

falls dam

tops worn Kids Ked

smooth-

How many horn-pout

pulled-

breathless.

Soft sighing of

the wind blow

south from the mountains

flow over

pushing

to

the Merrimack River

towns built

on sites

indian war whoops

chasing Mohawk away

        behind Bob Garipy’s

        Auto Parts Store 

JUST NEEDS PAINT AND SOUND MAGIC

Front door. All I ned to do is walk out the sliding door onto the deck; down a few steps, and stumble to this door.

Right hand wall when you enter.  The entrance to the attic where all the cardboard boxes will be staying.

The new window.  I'm getting a combo storm/screen window to go on the outside. I'll make up a baffle to cover the inside when i'm recording.

Eight feet of heat. That'll be plenty when the amp tubes get cooking!




















Lastly, out the door and back up to the deck and civilization. Television and computers.