SWOLA 74

The is my entry for SWOLA 74.  I used my new T.C. Electronic Impulse I.R. Loader pedal for this recording.  I just got it a few days ago and still need to play around with it a lot more.

02-23-2022

I'm driving my car down a back road and before I know know it there is a car coming at me head on.  I realize I'm in the wrong lane.  I quickly swerve to the right side of the road avoiding an accident.  I look at the person sitting in the passenger seat and tell them, "sorry about that, I guess I wasn't paying attention.  That was a close call."  Then all of a sudden a car comes into my lane and approaches us head on.  We collide and my car flips several times.

I tell myself "This is where and how you die."  The crash ends and I see nothing, I hear nothing, and I feel nothing.  I realize that I must be dead.  This can't be a dream, because you're not supposed to be able to die in your dreams.  You always wake up before it happens.

I start to have an inner dialog with myself.  I tell myself, "SHIT, this must be it, this is what death is.  I conclude that my conscience is still alive, but my body isn't.  I feel I'm in a state of meditation, very deep meditation, and I'm too far inside my head and that I might not be able to get out.

I accept the fact that I've died and that this is the new state of things.  My mind starts to race.  I realize that I haven't been meditating much and that I have no control of my mind.  I start to freak out a little.  "You need to calm yourself, this is where you are now.  If you can't get your shit together you're going to be in a bad space mentally."  I slowly calm myself and except what has happened and where I am.  I feel a rush of calmness come over me.

As I come to accept everything I realize that my eyes are closed, but I'm awake In my bed.  I sit up and open my eyes.  It's 3:20am and I'm alive.  I tell myself to go back to bed.

I've reflected on this dream a lot this week.  I often wonder, "what if today is my last day?"  We never know when our time will come.  It can be any day.

SWOLA 73

This is my entry for SWOLA 73.

I just finished building my StewMac LP style guitar. I added Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I ran it through my Tube Screamer into my OrangeAmps Terror StAmp with a 12' OrangeAmps speaker cabinet. I used a Shure SM57 to mic the cabinet.

I also used my Ibanez bass going straight into my OrangeAmps Orange Crush Bass 50 with a Shure SM57 mic.

SWOLA 72

My entry for Sunday With Ola 72  a.k.a. SWOLA 72

Solar V type guitar

Ibanez Tube Screamer

OrangeAmps Terror StAmp

Orange Amps 12" Cab

Shure SM 57

Ibanez Bass

Orange Amps Orange Crush 50 1x12 Bass Combo

Shure SM 57