I guess if someone is pretty serious about not getting coronavirus and can afford to stay home, there is a lot more time to pull out lots of stuff. Old guitars, old amps, old music.

I can't say I am exactly enjoying forced confinement but it does have some advantages.

Digital storage is wonderful as long as it does not fail. I did have one sata USB drive commit suicide.

The one thing I experienced this morning was to touch hand written paper lead sheets, standard notation, tab, lyric sheets .

Note books, sheet of paper, ideas written on the back of paper menus, phone numbers, and other miscellaneous scraps of paper. That gave me a real sense of when it was written. A visceral connection to the past.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”