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When great progress is made on a couple of tunes, suddenly the other tunes drop down in quality level. So although you felt 80-90% complete with 10 tunes, suddenly you find yourself going back towards 60-70% as you appreciate the effort required for the marginally higher quality you must strive for (note: percentages are based on general vibe, despite attempts to employ some scientific measurements and approach!). And then a tune gets stale and loses the vibe, so you've got a big gaping hole in the whole mood There is some benefit from increased duration - it's like somebody else's song when you come back to work on it, especially when you can't remember how to play it. But I think we've had enough duration for quite a while - could do with more completion, less duration! How will we get it done....? Option 1... we could probably complete to a satisfactory level if we had 2 weeks full time in the studio, 12 hours a day, working through the weekends coz it's fun

A 2-3 year cycle in creating tunes is a bit like popping down the shop for some messages - you're sure why you're going, and where you're going, and you know what you want to get. When you get there you get some things that weren't on the list, but that's ok coz you like the extra stuff you got. Then you get home and realise you've forgotten the essentials and regret not making a list. In hindsight, there were some benefits to going down the shop, but you wish you'd done it better and overall you've let down all the people at home by not delivering the products they all wanted. All you had to do was sit down and think about what you'd really like and record it, and then when you get to the shop adjust your plan to suit available items, but only based on what you enjoy - so you capture long term strategy and the dynamics of short-term impulsiveness in your shopping basket. When you get home you're happy that you did what you wanted to and what you

It's been a while. Bogas (singer/guitarist) departed for the merry shores of Oz last Summer. Was a bit of a panic getting all his stuff recorded - if we missed something it won't be fixed now! Had a 4-5 month break (not planned!) where nothing got done. Now back to the usual snail's pace. I can only imagine what a full week of studio time would do! More soon!