When I split from the band Team 23 in around 1982, I bought a kiln and became a potter. I sold my beautiful 1960s Fender Jazz bass guitar and that gave me enough money to buy a kiln. I also sold my Fender amp and speaker cabinet. I got ripped off with that one. Never saw the money! But, on the positive side……my ceramicist days had started in earnest. They last 12 years. 12 very, very enjoyable years they were too.

Playing with a band again? Never ever did. Oh! Sorry. A brief experimentation a week or so after the band split found me playing with two musician friends, a guitarist and drummer, who were amazingly good. We did a one day jam session together. Musically, it could have been the best band I ever played in. However, I still felt the aftermath of the music industry shenanigans. Bad vibes with people trying to manipulate us were very much part of the music scene. So I never made a commitment of the opportunity in carrying on. Didn’t want to return to those suffocating experiences. Those two musicians in that jamming session went on to release singles and albums. So well deserved too. Myself. Retreated into the clay making vibe. Loved the new role of humble potter.

An acoustic guitar was, over decades, never far away, so it was/is often picked up and played. No ambition to play it properly. It’s simply there to write songs on. It may have been a couple of months after leaving the band that songwriting was returned to. And the top acoustic version on the video above was one of the first songs I wrote in the aftermath. Another was ‘Wind of Sorrows’.

I recorded this quick and basic acoustic version above last year. The guitar playing is just a chunky accompaniment. I play it more openly now. What it did though was that it gave impetus to then use the idea for the electric version below it.

This morning it got me thinking . Should I choose a few more songs and do acoustic versions of them. Include them in the CD song list. Each CD has an awful lot of time allowance on them. So a fair few additional songs can actually be included as extras.

As said above regarding Wind of Sorrows. Last year a quick ‘Can it be remembered. Can it maybe still work?’ Crossed the mind. Maybe it can…..I like the tune, so there’s hope.

Double Down Thinking if this, done properly, recording of acoustic versions of some songs could work now! 🤔🤔