
MY MORNING guitar student has had to cancel so instead I make up a set list for Sunday’s garden show in Drymen. I’m playing a short half-hour set along with a bunch of other local folks to raise money for the Drymen village hall.
No relation to my Wildcats’ Facebook group, Gene Vincent’s song of the same name has been a favourite of mine for along time. It’s crossed my mind a few times I should try and play it and maybe even record a version – if only for a bit of fun within the group.
I note down the lyrics, mess around with the guitar/s and record a very rough version to see if I can make it work.
There’s also some work to be done on a revamp of the local community hydro scheme website. I’ve been kinda dragging my heels over it as it’s low priority, but I really do need to get on it. I mess around for a wee while until it’s time to head into Glasgow.
We’re lucky enough to be on the guest list for the Living Colour/Mr Big show at Barrowlands. My cousin (‘third’ cousin, actually) is part of Spector and has made Living Colour’s Doug Wimbish’s basses – hence our invitation to the show.
There’s some shopping to be picked up and a snack at Costco, then fuel, then we roll up at the venue.
Living Colour is quite superb – I wouldn’t have been champing at the bit to go to this show (generally because we just don’t have the spare cash to go to bigger gigs), but the show was really, really good. Mr Big follows with an impressive show too but not quite as good as Living Colour.