graysummers

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And so the story goes, to where? No one knows. But it involves a Volkswagen T2 Crossover Bay Bus called Billie Bud (known to most people as ‘WOW, a camper van’); a Pentax LX SLR camera loaded with black and white film; cooking vegetarian food on a basic set up of Cobb cooker, a couple of gas rings and an open fire; reading books; listening to music and the ruminations from a retired Staff Nurse. Well......got to fill the hours outside of being a pensioner somehow.

It is difficult to put the timing of typed words to vocals currently. Also, downloading a photograph into the video sequence brings problematics too. They need to be ‘spread’ so as to fit each framed image at both start and end of each introduction and departure.

It would be nice to look at a proper App that allows filmed videos to be edited. I am using iMovie presently, which is fairly comfortable for current skills.

This song? Written a few years ago now. Tweaked the mix this morning and feel it is decent enough to unleash onto YouTube. A few ‘crack sounds’ can be heard in the recording due to either an electrical blip or a snap reaction due to volume overload. I have no idea. But it is within the vocal and acoustic guitar track, which were recorded at the same time. I sang and played guitar into the Shure SM58 mic. A dynamic mic which uses a pre amp booster. Maybe this is the reason for overload. So can’t do anything about it really. So leave it in there as a quirky inclusion.

The video below, on YouTube, was uploaded and with the new fibre broadband we now have in the house…..it took minutes not hours.

Best heard through headphones, earbuds or speakers. My iPad speakers are like those tinny little radios I had as a teenager.

YOUTUBE LINK BELOW.