OK sorry about that..we have had the builders here for ages doing jobs on our long term project. I am pleased to say that part of that project is to build a dedicated rehearsal and recording studio but more of that another time.

So being good takes practice but there is another side to being a technically great musician and this is exhibited pretty well by Newton Faulkner's album. Great pop and rock muso's and particualrly guitarists have a propensity to noodle. Noodling is the extended indulgence in aimless melodic meandering often believed by the perpatrator to be inspired creativity of almost mystical significance. A good example of what I mean is that 10th dan black belt arch druid of noodling Dave Gilmour. Now I am not being so crazy as to suggest I know better than multi million album platinum selling stadium filling rock gods Pink Floyd but some of those solos when they play live let alone recording them are a little flabby...I mean come on! I can remember Dave Gilmour being interviewed in a documentary and I paraphrase him here along the lines of him saying.."I dont know where the melodies come from. They just seem to fall out of my guitar". I think Mr Gilmour wanted to portray an image of these melodies being channelled through him by an omniprescent muse and he simply releases them into the ether like sprinkling golden magical guitardust on our eager ears. I have more of an image of each melody dropping out of the guitar and hitting the floor with a resounding "thunk". But I actually quite like Pink Floyd not that you'd be able to tell from what I have just said!

Newton Faulkner's album has a few great songs on it. I like those songs alot but at 17 tracks it has been padded out with noodles that dont really warrant a title let alone being on an album.

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