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Have got a gig for a band I've been rehersing with recently so thought I'd post up a few of the tracks. They are pretty rough but give an idea of what we are getting up to. The lineup is bass, drums and guitar in a grooves/jazz style however I'm not playing any of the instruments. Each instrument gets a feed to my laptop and I'm using ableton to drop in samples and mainly to do realtime remixing. So each instrument can lay down comps or basslines or whatever and jam over the top.

SO close to being able to start this beast for the first time. Left on the todo list:

* Hook up the fuel pump, block off return to tank
* Weld on the exhaust from the cat back
* Hook up electric exhaust cutout
* Get fitting for oil pressure sender (damn sender fouls on the intake manifold!)
* Wiring for automatic choke, master cyl, dizzy, starter & thermo fan
* Make bottom brackets for radiator
* Fill with oil and coolant
* Prime oil pump
* Fit bonnet

Went to the first Mt Cootha Classic hillclimb on the weekend and got some great pics. Click the DRB GT40 Replica in Gulf colours for more.

As per the title, I've made mounts for the radiator and the throttle linkage, happy with both. Check out the clearance on the water pump pulley! As my Dad says - just like a Jag haha.

So I was playing Streets of Rage 2 at work the other day (research) and came to a strange realisation. They totally modelled Donovan on Joe Satriani:

AMIRITE?!

Finally! After months of work and mucking around with the Apple developer program, the iPhone app I've been working on with Scott and Piers (get a web address sucker) is out in the wild. Check it out!

It looks a bit like this

And here is the description:

Too impatient to wait for Judgement Day? Stuck on an escalator that's only going down. Vent yo' self fool.

What will be your fate and who will decide?

For some reason I never post much about music even tho I spend the majority of my time practicing and trying to make it... I guess its just that it's rare I get all the way to the end of a musical idea so I'm reluctant to litter the blog with all the bits and bobs. Anyway I think it would be nice to start posting them up in case one gets far enough along to turn into a finished track. This one is just a 13/8 groove (I think, drummers can correct me) idea to hopefully develop with some friends this weekend.

I'm a massive fan of "the bay" right? Feedback score 93 100% positive throwyaguns.

But lately I've been having some fun with the feedback I leave for other people and it's spreading. First two are mine, last one from a workmate who has also recently discovered the addiction of ebay: