… and I had a good time playing lots of old-time R’n’R in front of what was really a very appreciative audience last Saturday night. Considering it was the first such concert I’d been part of in what passes as my professional life I was quite happy with the overall effort and friends and relatives who were there were quite complimentary and had a good time into the bargain.
I used the Kurzweil keyboard, and that stood up to my shenanigans very well as I expected it to, and the sound coming out was pretty good into the bargain. There was a Yamaha baby grand there I could have played but I needed more sounds that just a piano and it probably wouldn’t have fitted onto the stage with all the PA gear and drum kits etc that even these days are part and parcel of such shows.
My son used his high definition video camera to record the show (in 5.1 surround sound, yet…) and I type this my computer still has over three hours to go (after already spending 17!) in rendering the output into a video file I can play on the computer, and then I’ll create a DVD so that we can go back and see where things can improve. I know one bit already – there’s one spot where I’m one beat ahead of everyone else – how that happened I have no idea
On the Stuart front, things are progressing reasonably well and whilst I’m still not sure when I’m going to be comfortable recording again that should happen sooner rather than later. The piano is sounding good as usual and my fingers are comfortable, which is something that not always happens but when it does it’s a sign that at least mentally I’m feeling at ease.
The only small cloud on the horizon is the, whilst my eye has been stable now for quite a while, a full-fledged cataract has formed and that will be operated on next week. These operations are pretty routine now and I don’t anticipate any real problems, but it pays not to take things for granted in life as I’ve discovered many times.