Kilroy's Blues - Crunchysteve - 2023 Version
Channel: steve jay
Date: 2023-05-31

I haven't played live since early 2017, at the Tall Dark and Coffee farewell night, and I kind of miss the buzz, but hey, being an old fart, health issues and covid. Meanwhile, I have a workshop and studio in what used to be the garage, but for the last 4 years or so, it's been a bit of a tip, and I've been tidying up this last few weeks. And yesterday, I got to a point where I had a bit of floor space, room to make some noise! I've been wanting to verify whether my Alesis SR18 drum machine can be tap-tempoed while playing. Nope it can't. Guess I have to build that tap tempo pedal. As if I haven't got enough projects to be going on with. 

Anyway, I also worked out the tempo to one of my songs. It was just a thing I jammed up in 2005 but never did much more than play solo to record it. The song I want to manually tap the drum machine through is this song, so I thought I'd rehearse it anyway, and stuck my iPhone up on the tripod. It's a dry room. Too small to treat for much more than a voice booth or drum box, it's just my iPhone's mic. But I figured out that Kilroy's Blues is actually 132BPM! Its always felt slower than that.  Way slower, like 104 or something! Weird. Never mind, just enjoy it. ❤️❤️❤️