The Steve Thompson Band

I’ve got boxes of “ideas tapes” (Cassettes) in the attic. Luckily digital ideas are easier to store and access (see pic)

Back in the 70’s and 80’s my various publishers and production companies were always badgering me for more songs – give is more !! make us money !! – oh the stress. Sometimes the very pressure they exerted staunched the creative flow. Lately new ideas have been dropping from me like … well er… the proverbial dropping off you thing (again see pic). I wonder if my old publishers would be pleased to hear this. The ones I haven’t either sue’d or told to F off that is.

Sadly, I can’t really play you any of this stuff as it is really ruff so just hum along with the picture.

I’m making this post on the basis that it should go to all my social media outlets using a mixture of plugins + smoke and mirrors. I’ve pretty much cracked it all but for Google+ – Now, Google + does not play nice with very much else at all. It’s a shame where Google have taken this social network as I thought it had great promise. I would like my postings to go to Google+ as there are people there that I like to connect with. However, I do not like Google+. Firstly the content is scrunched up into little boxes in the center of the screen. Then there’s the fact that Google are trying to channel people into using the network the way Google wants rather than how the people want. This probably goes for all the social networks and it’s a trade off between the benefits and fun we can extract from these tools offset against the annoyance they cause us with constant changes.

I think it’s time to overhaul my http://stmedia.org website. I quite like the WordPress skin I’m using but it has some odd anomalies. Perhaps it’s time to use a more modern and updated template. I think what I’ll do is create a mirror site and copy the content. Once I’m happy I’ll port the skin over. I want to retain some of the retro stuff and many of the quirks are lost in the mists of time.

Rediscovered this on my iTunes today. When I was in the Whitaker Band I produced an album “The Tuesday Club” circa 1999. This is one of my many unfinished songs and we slotted it between the tracks as if it got there by accident. Sorry, it’s my naff vocals – maybe I should dust off the rest of the album.

Once I was a loner,
How did I survive?
’till the day you came my way
I was barely alive
Once I was a poor man
with nothing to my name
but a worn overcoat
and a crooked walking cane

I once worked with an Irish audio engineer, I don’t know if the fact he was Irish has a bearing on this but he had an interesting way of determining the length of pieces of music. He worked in a studio run by video production outfit and would be asked to music of a specific duration – quiet often 28 second for commercials. His solution was simple: the music was produced on a machine running at 15 i.p.s. (15 inches per second) therefore he deduced that a 28 seconds long piece of music would be 420 inches long i.e. 35 feet long. So he would take out his tape measure and measure off 35 feet, snip it with a razor blade and deliver it to the video producer.