nothing to say (but it's ok)

good morning!  good morning!  good morning!

the sun a giant fireball ascends into the heavens. we have just passed the first of the golden hours. sunrise 0715 sunny intervals and a gentle breeze. 

horsemouth has written some other words but he is saving them for the state opening of parliament and the anniversary of journey in  satchidananda day. 

therefore he has nothing to say but what is not in his head yet. 

horsemouth put up a link to dennis morris's photos - he turns out to have been an important figure in punk - photographing bob marley as a schoolboy, photographing the sex pistols, designing the first PIL album cover. his post on werner herzog got more likes (and his post on a freeview showing of john schlesinger's terminus got more likes still). 

to the islands with ingmar in a car horsemouth blogged three years ago (based on a dream). 

'a point here the concept of mixing was, to most people, absolutely alien.' 

greg wilson appears on the tube  in 1983 and demonstrates mixing between two record decks. the crowd are utterly bemused. this is not what music is. he's not playing it himself they are just records. where are the guitars? where are the keyboards? this isn't a performance he's just playing records! why would we watch that? 

horsemouth has the guitar tuned up in open G minor. this is  robbie basho's 'blue' tuning (dgbflatgbflatd), sometimes taking it up to an openG tuning (dgdgbd - dogged gibbered). soon he will return it to standard tuning and start practicing songs again. 

basho also tended to use an open Cm (cgcgceflat horsemouth guesses). 

that tuning the d string down to a bflat is really quite important. horsemouth does not tend to raise the pitches of strings when he retunes guitars away from standard. the note on strings tuned higher than usual should decay faster than it would otherwise have done (and conversely sustain longer for strings tuned down).