The Who is motivating me again. When the 1080p TV arrived a few weeks ago, Live at Kilburn `77 got another viewing, and from there I went on a tangent of looking up Who bootlegs (I now have Woodstock `69 and Tanglewood `70 on DVD!) and pulled out The Who Sings My Generation (possibly their best studio album) and Quadrophenia. I've also been haunting The Who.com and eagerly await Pete Townshend's next blog entry there. The result of all of this is that after a layoff of several months from any guitar strumming, I've strummed it at least two or three times lately.

Strumming a guitar means spending more money on gear, of course, and Wednesday I sprinted down to the Atlanta Guitar Center and picked up a Morley Bad Horsie 2 wah pedal. "Art, is this a double-post? I thought you got one of those in April." I did. Now I have a second one! Gotta have a backup for all this hardcore touring I'm doing. Actually on close inspection this one is more hammered than the other one I got (bought it second hand of course) so I may dump this one when a fresher specimen comes along, but it's all right.

The acoustic guitar was also fondled. No new tunes came out, but I recalled other ones I've come up with that haven't been recorded. I was uploading one of the last tracks I worked on to Bandcamp.com and realized that it had been done in May of 2007!

So as well as signing up for a few certificate classes I'm also making tentative efforts to get the music ball rolling again. Maybe by 2011 I'll be fully defogged.