Once again, here's a list of my musical projects for the year.
Continuing Projects
Scales
When I sit down at or with an instrument, I play a scale, provided I know the instrument well enough that I can play a scale on it. I go in the order of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and move on to the next one on Sundays. For the first full week of 2026, I'll be practicing D major.
This is my blog for hymns and (occasionally) classical sacred music. On Wednesday, I have a post tracing the Biblical sources of a hymn in The Lutheran Service Book (I finished writing them last year, but they're scheduled through 2028), and on most Fridays, I have a short post about a musical feature in a hymn. On rare occasions, I post about classical sacred music on Monday.
Cover Projects
Initially, the goal for most of these was to learn every part to every song, and while I'm still working on that, the focus now has shifted more to writing about various features I notice. Here's a list of the projects and what bands they cover:
For every time that old high school classmates (a sometime singer-songwriter and a self-styled author) post about their projects, I figure out a part from a song by one of these bands and listen to an album (cycling through the projects and in a roughly chronological order within each project). I'm still behind on quite a few albums from last year, though.
In August last year, I started listening weekly (on Sundays) to an album from the bands I cover in the Verulam Cover Project (using the same cycle), and I intend to continue this.
I plan to watch the Hung up on a Dream documentary again (probably in April), Argent's appearance on Set of 6 on 29 May, and the Zombies' Live from Studio Two on 21 September.
As a sort of sub-project to Verulam Cover Project, I run a blog where I collect interviews and performances by the Zombies. I'm slowly transcribing the interviews. Currently, I'm working on one that Rod Argent did in 1994, which is included on Greatest Hits, Greatest Recordings.
I've been reading the updated edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story, and I listen to the albums and watch the episodes when I read about their original releases and broadcasts.
Bach Cantatas
On Sunday, I listen to a Bach cantata, going in order by BWV number. Occasionally, I follow along in the notation and jot down some notes.
This year, I'll be listening to BWV 25 through BWV 77. My box set lacks only one in that range, BWV 53.
Mandolin Monday
Every Monday, I post a video of a mandolin piece on Instagram and Twitter, and I upload a slightly edited re-run on YouTube. I'm currently alternating between a collection of German folk tunes and Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland.
In 2019, I started a blog where I write about the Hohner Pianet, a German electric piano from the 1960s. As a continuation of the original demonstration disc, I've also recorded a number of pieces using Pianet samples on my Nord Electro 5D.
I have no particular plans for this blog this year, but I'm sure I'll post at least a few pictures or videos of Pianets.
In March 2021, I started working through Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch, a collection of some 400 hymn tunes. Along with learning to play the pieces, I'm modernizing the notation. I post a tune every Thursday.
Work on this project has become increasingly difficult over the last year or so, and my goal this year is just to keep meeting my deadline. I have enough tunes recorded to last a year or so, but doing the notation takes time (transposing Telemann's notation from alto clef so I can play the pieces and also doing the modern, digital notation for the videos).
Parroting the Bird
Like I did last year (and more informally in previous years), I'm going to try to copy (to some degree) what my cousin does with his band, which is named after a bird. Mostly, this involves listening to music he mentions (provided I'm interested in it myself) and occasionally figuring out parts. I'm giving this project a bit more structure this year, though: I'm going to use the music he alludes to as a starting point and continue forward in the discography of the band it's performed by (or the classical composer it's written by, but I find that possibility unlikely), switching to something new whenever it comes up, although I'm limiting this to an album a week, on Saturday. In the event something new appears while I'm in the midst of a box set, I'll listen to all of the discs before moving on.
I'm considering starting C.P.E. Bach's Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments in August (because my cousin plays piano [but always forte], and his birthday is in August), but the book seems well beyond me, so I'm not sure.
Projects Specific to 2026
Themed Months
For most months last year, I had a theme and listened to specific music (for example, blues in August and harpischord music in December). I'd like to do this again, but I don't want to plan too far in advance. January will be a mix of Schubert (specifically a seven-disc set of chamber music and an album of piano sonatas I didn't get to in "piano month" last year), Bread (a six-disc box set), and as many of the 20th Century Masters albums as I can get through (excepting the Christmas-themed ones). February will be Mendelssohn (particularly Elias and Paulus, and probably also the incidental music to Antigone, Oedipus, and Athalia), and I have a ten-disc set of German swing music (mostly from the 1930s) that I want to listen to sometime in the spring, probably April or May.
Roy Orbison
On Orbison's 90th birthday (23 April), I'm going to start the official biography written by his sons (which I've had for a few years but haven't read yet). I'm sure I'll listen to him a lot around then, too.
Here's how I did on my musical projects for 2025. Overall, the year really wasn't that great, but I made at least some progress in most of my projects. The intented bits are the goals I started with.
Here are my musical projects for 2025.
Currently, I'm somewhat limited with what I can do in terms of audio recording and video editing. In late October/early November last year, I started having some computer issues and had to go back to using my old computer, which I'd phased out of regular use in spring 2019. I got a new computer in early December, but so far I've been unable to find the installation discs for the programs I need, and I'm not sure they would work on such a new computer anyway. For now, I'm doing only simple and infrequent recordings.
I still haven't found my installation discs, but since last winter, I haven't really been looking for them because I've been busy with other projects.
Continuing Projects
Scales
When I sit down at or with an instrument, I play a scale, provided I know the instrument well enough that I can play a scale on it. I go in the order of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and move on to the next one on Sundays. For the first full week of 2025, I'll be practicing A minor. When I practice organ every day, I improvise to a backing track in the same key (or the relative major if I'm practicing a minor key that week).
For now, I plan to continue what I started last year and record my nightly improvisation for every time one of my cousin's bands has a show. I'm leaving the videos unlisted (with some exceptions), but the playlist is public.
Around July, I stopt recording my nightly improvisations primarily because it was a hassle to set up what I needed to record it but also because no one was very interested and I frequently played the same sort of figures. Additionally, I started having trouble with the backing tracks I played along to. Just this week, I abandoned that aspect of my nightly practice altogether.
This is my blog for hymns and (occasionally) classical sacred music. I had been recording a hymn tune from The Lutheran Hymnal every week (here's a playlist), but I took a break in November last year when I started having computer issues. For now, this break will continue.
Provided I get my software working, I want to record some of my own arrangements of hymn tunes, using the pipe organ sounds on my Hammond SKX.
On Wednesday, I have a post tracing the Biblical sources of a hymn in The Lutheran Service Book, and on most Fridays, I have a short post about a musical feature in a hymn (at some points last year, I'd run out of comments that weren't about seasonally specific hymns). On rare occasions, I post about classical sacred music on Monday.
Last year, I got pretty far ahead in writing posts about hymns' Biblical sources, and I'm going to try to finish those this year. I have eighty-one posts left to write.
I finished writing my sources posts in mid-August. They're scheduled in advance for the next two and a half years or so.
Cover Projects
Initially, the goal for most of these was to learn every part to every song, and while I'm still working on that, the focus now has shifted more to writing about various features I notice. Here's a list of the projects and what bands they cover:
I've been reading the updated edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story, and I listen to the albums and watch the episodes when I read about their original releases and broadcasts. I'm doing the same sort of thing with The Beach Boys, which I plan to finish reading this year.
For every time that old high school classmates (a sometime singer-songwriter and a self-styled author) post about their projects, I figure out a part from a song by one of these bands and listen to an album (cycling through the projects and in a roughly chronological order within each project).
As sort of a sub-project to Verulam Cover Project, I plan to continue transcribing interviews with the Zombies for my blog where I collect their interviews and performances. My process, which I think I'll try to maintain, is to transcribe about a minute of audio for every Beatles reference I run across (because my initial idea for this project was a sort of response to the Get Back book, which contains transcriptions of the Beatles' conversations). I'll probably finish transcribing The Story of the Zombies by the end of January, after which I'll get back to the Rock Solid podcast, which I temporarily abandoned in the fall last year. The Zombies' panel at the Strand Book Store is an-other one on my list.
I'm going to re-read The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images, which I read only once before, in 2017 shortly after it came out.
I plan to maintain my tradition and watch the Zombies' Live from Studio Two on its anniversary on 18 September, but I also want to watch or listen to some other Zombies and Argent concerts on or around their anniversaries, particularly Live from Metropolis Studios in January, Odessey and Oracle {Revisited} in early March, Set of Six on 29 May, and Live at the Palace Theatre on 7 November.
I didn't get around to it last year, but I might try to figure out the trombone parts in the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" by carefully studying the slide positions in videos of live performances. If I get my software set up, I'm going to make a video demonstrating the organ part in the Beach Boys' "Be Still," which was an-other goal from last year that I never really got started on.
One of my Christmas gifts was The Monkees: Smoke-Filled Dreams, and I plan to start reading this, too.
I finished reading The Beach Boys on 25 November.
I finished my transcription of The Story of the Zombies on 21 January. I went back to transcribing the Rock Solid podcast, but shortly thereafter, I started working concurrently on the Zombies' appearance on NPR's Weekend Edition in 2012, which I finished on 5 February. Likewise, I did short interviews that Colin and Rod did around the time that Breathe Out, Breathe In was released in 2011. I finished the one with Colin on 18 February and the one with Rod on the 20th. Near the end of March, I started transcribing the Track by Track at Gibson videos, still working concurrently on the Rock Solid appearance. Because each video is fairly short, I did the whole thing at once.
I watched Live at Metropolis Studios on 29 January. I'd noticed before that Jim Rodford's wife Jean is in the audience, but this time I noticed that Tom Toomey's wife Millie is there, too. I watched Odessey & Oracle {Revisited} on 8 March and later wrote a post about a few related points. I also watched or listened to the other concerts listed above on their respective anniversaries. Additionally, I purchased a digital copy of Hung up on a Dream (the recent documentary about the Zombies) and watched it on 9 October, the tenth anniversary of Still Got That Hunger, which I also listened to again.
I finished reading The "Odessey" on 2 March. A couple weeks later (on the 14th), I got Times and Seasons: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Zombies by Robin Platts and started reading it the same day.
I completely forgot about "This Will Be Our Year" and "Be Still."
I started Smoke-Filled Dreams on 1 January and finished it on 10 August.
At the end of August, I started listened to an album included in my Verulam Cover Project every Sunday (going roughly chronologically). Frequently, this led me to new realizations about the songs, and sometimes, I also figured out some parts.
These are also dependent on whether I get my software working, but I might attempt FAWM and 50/90 again.
I didn't attempt either. If I understand correctly, 50/90 didn't even occur this year.
Bach Cantatas
On Sunday, I listen to a Bach cantata, going in order by BWV number. Occasionally, I follow along in the notation and jot down some notes.
This year, I'll be listening to BWV 167 to BWV 200 (although the box set I have omits a handful in this range) then starting over in the cycle and going from BWV 1 to BWV 24 (missing only two: BWV 11 and BWV 15).
As usual, I don't have much to say about this, but I did do it.
I finished what pieces I'd planned to do in both The Dance Music of Ireland and A Collection of Welsh, Irish, & Scotch Tunes. Currently, I'm alternating between a collection of German folk tunes and Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland.
In 2019, I started a blog where I write about the Hohner Pianet, a German electric piano from the 1960s. As a continuation of the original demonstration disc, I've also recorded a number of pieces using Pianet samples on my Nord Electro 5D.
Near the end of last year, I started taking advantage of the split function on my Electro and playing Vox Continental on one half and Pianet on the other, which is the closest I can get to what Manfred Mann and Rod Argent did by stacking one keyboard on top of the other. I did a version of "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" this way. I'd like to do some more tunes in this manner, provided I can get my software working. My main goal for this project, though, is finally to finish off a post on Electric Light Orchestra's use of the Hohner Clavinet. Initially, I'd intended to do this in 2023 but forgot, and when I did start last year, I found that I needed to do more research than I expected, so I'm still working on it.
I finished my post on ELO's Clavinet on 26 January. It ended up being pretty short for how long it took me to research and write it, though.
In March 2021, I started working through Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch, a collection of some 400 hymn tunes. Along with learning to play the pieces, I'm modernizing the notation. I post a tune every Thursday. I want to maintain my lead (I'm more than a year ahead in recording the tunes) and ideally increase it.
Aside from actually learning to play the pieces, the two aspects of this project that take the longest are creating digital copies of the notation and editing videos, and they've been hampered even further because I have to use my old computer to do them, but I'm going to try to stick to my schedule.
I recorded fifty tunes, so I lost a bit of my lead. Because of technical issues, I had to re-record two that I originally did in 2024, so if those are counted, I did actually make my goal (one a week).
I don't remember exactly when, but early in the year (by the end of February maybe?), I started doing the digital notation on my new computer, which saved some time, I guess. Eventually, I started working ahead by doing the digital notation for easier tunes (not necessary the next one in order), but it's still a struggle trying to maintain my schedule. Occasionally (especially in these last two months, when I've been a bit under the weather and not very motivated), I rendered the video for Thursday on Monday of the same week.
Mellotron
In 2023, I started recording selections from Telemann's ouvertures (TWV 55) and Corelli's trio sonatas (Opp. 1-4) using only Mellotron sounds, posting one piece from each collection every month: the Telemann on the Friday on or after the 14th and the Corelli on the following Friday. I'd recorded enough pieces before having computer issues to maintain this schedule until March this year, but I don't know if I'll be able to continue it.
If I get my software working, I also want to record a movement from a Telemann sonata for two flutes I've been working on.
I didn't do any work on this project.
Parroting the Bird
I've become increasingly frustrated that my cousin's band is getting more popular (and frankly more absurd) while I'm working hard on my musical projects and seemingly getting nowhere, so I started copying (to some degree) what he does. Usually, though, this just means that I listen to the albums he mentions and try to figure out parts to the songs he posts and alludes to (provided it's music that I'm interested in; I'm not going out of my way for this). His band is named after a sort of bird, so I felt that "parroting" was a good term to use, although it's not entirely accurate. I've been doing this for at least a year or two already, so I might as well make it an official project.
In February last year, he gained something like 6,000 Instagram followers after posting a video where he put one of his own songs over a clip from some cult classic cartoon (which I don't think is exactly legal), and I have something specific I want to do in response to this.
I never got around to doing what I wanted. I couldn't find the time to practice, let alone record it. I did figure out a few song parts, though.
Projects Specific to 2025
BBC Albums
Sometime around late 2021 or early 2022, I had to idea to cycle through what live-at-the-BBC albums (and other recordings) I have. If I remember correctly, I delayed doing this for a while because in 2019, I did this with just the Beatles' BBC albums and wanted to take a break from listening to them. I'm going to listen to a disc on Saturday (because one of the shows was called Saturday Club), going roughly chronologically though:
The Zombies - The BBC Radio Sessions
The Beatles - Live at the BBC
Manfred Mann - Live at the BBC 64-66
The Rolling Stones - On Air
The Beatles - On Air - Live at the BBC, Vol. 2
Manfred Mann - Live at the BBC 66-69
The Who - BBC Sessions
Manfred Mann Chapter III - Live Sessions & Studio Rarities
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Live at the BBC 70-73
Argent - John Peel's Sunday Concert, 14 February 1971, which was available on Russ Ballard's website a number of years ago
Badfinger - In Concert at the BBC, 1972-3
Argent - Live at the Paris Theatre, 14 December 1972
Electric Light Orchestra - Live at the Guildhall, 1976
I also have Roy Orbison's Live at the BBC, which I might listen to a couple times, but I'm not including it in the rotation because - unlike all of these other bands - Orbison wasn't British.
I maintained my schedule, and sometimes, listening to these albums gave me something to write about. I listened to Roy Orbison's Live at the BBC on his birthday, 23 April.
Mozart Symphonies
A number of years ago, I got a box set of the complete Mozart symphonies performed by the Mozart Akademie Amsterdam. I plan on listening to it again in January to mark Mozart's birthday (on the 27th).
I don't really have anything to say about this, but I did listen to the box set in January. I finished on the 29th. On Mozart's birthday, I listened to Symphonies 31, 36, and 40 (also this string quartet on YouTube).
Bob Dylan and the Band
For Christmas, I received The 1974 Live Recordings box set by Bob Dylan and the Band. For my first time through it, I plan to listen to the concerts on their original dates (3 January to 14 February). Some days have two shows, though, so I'll probably listen to one a day early or a day late.
While listening to these songs, I noticed that many of them exhibit the same pleonasm where there's an unnecessary pronoun following a noun (I referenced the studio versions for what's below, which isn't an exhaustive list):
"The times, they are a-changin'" and "The line, it is drawn; the curse, it is cast" ("The Times They Are A-Changin'")
"Hollis Brown, he lived on the outside of town" ("Ballad of Hollis Brown")
"Relationships of ownership, they whisper in the wings" and "The foreign sun, it squints upon a bed that isn't mine" ("Gates of Eden")
"Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn" and "Advertising signs, they con / You into thinking you're the one" ("It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)")
"All your seasick sailors, they're all rowing home" ("It's All over Now, Baby Blue")
"Well, Georgia Sam, he had a bloody nose" ("Highway 61 Revisited")
"Queen Mary, she's my friend" ("Just Like a Woman")
"Well, the judge, he holds a grudge" ("Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)")
"Business men, they drink my wine" and "The thief, he kindly spoke" ("All Along the Watchtower")
Carl Perkins
Four years ago, I got a Carl Perkins compilation album in the Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection series. For some reason (maybe the mastering or just the song selection), I liked this much better than the two-disc set I'd already had for years. I listened to it a couple times last year (once, just by coincidence, on Perkins' birthday) and still really like it, and I want to figure out at least one of the guitar solos on the album.
I intended to figure out a guitar solo in April, after listening to this album again, but it wasn't until August that I actually got around to it.
In September 2023, I started reading a biography of Ellington (Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout). I had been reading it fairly consistently, albeit slowly, since late April last year but lost some momentum in late summer/early fall when I was sick, never really got back to it, and then set it aside for all of December when I was focusing on other books I wanted to finish by the end of the year. I want to finish it this year and also listen to two box sets I have, a two-disc set in the Classic Jazz Archive series and a ten-disc set titled just Duke Ellington. I plan to listen to the ten-disc set in April, since Ellington's birthday is 29 April.
I listened to both of these collections in April, but I made very little progress in reading the biography.
Carl Nielsen
In 2023, I'd found a piece that Nielsen wrote for two recorders, and I'd intended to do this as a sort of bonus to my project of recording his chorales on my Moog last year, but then I had computer issues. I'm going to do it this year, even if I have to record it on my old computer. I also want to listen to a ten-disc set titled The Danish Symphonist, probably in June since Nielsen's birthday is 9 June.
This was an-other piece that I never really got around to practicing, so I didn't even attempt to record it. I did listen to the box set in June, though.
Other Things to Note
I started reading The Band FAQ by Peter Aaron on 21 January, after hearing that Garth Hudson died. In fact, I found out while I was listening to Bob Dylan & the Band. Likewise, I started I Am Brian Wilson on 11 June. I've made very little progress in either, though.
I suppose this started with the Ellington collections and Nielsen box set in April and June respectively, but especially in the second half of the year, I dedicated a month to a certain type of music. July was French music (mostly Edith Piaf and Rameau); August was a ten-disc Woody Guthrie set, along with various collections of blues; September was Gershwin; October was organ music; November was piano music; and December was harpsichord music (I also watched this Library of Congress lecture on Wanda Landowska, although it's mostly a demonstration of her instruments).
I maintained my usual vinyl listening traditions: one of my grandfather's records on his birthday (Lawrence Welk's Moon River this year), the Apples in Stereo's Fun Trick Noisemaker on 12 October, and the Bill Evans Trio's Portrait in Jazz on 28 December. I also watched ELO's Out of the Blue: Live at Wembley on 30 December (Jeff Lynne's birthday), which I've done every year since I got it in 2022.
I figured out 126 parts, down from last year's 179. Here's a compilation of some videos I took on my phone throughout the year:
Del Shannon - "Misery" - clavioline solo (without vibrato)
The Buckinghams - "You" - electric piano solo
Bill Haley and the Comets - "Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town)" - electric guitar solo
Carpenters - "Druscilla Penny" - harpsichord solo
Carl Perkins - "Movie Magg" - electric guitar solo
Billy Joel - "Sleeping with the Television on" - organ solo (Farfisa, I think)
Argent - "Infinite Wanderer" (the live version on Encore) - Moog phrase
Colin Blunstone - "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" - Moog in the bridge (with organ chords for context)
Rod Argent - "Spirits" - two synth parts in the introduction
Argent - "Cast Your Spell Uranus" - Hohner Pianet in the introduction
A string on my electric guitar broke in November 2024, and I still haven't replaced it yet (it was only a couple weeks ago that I finally got a replacement string), so I had to use my acoustic guitar for any guitar work.
Currently, I'm somewhat limited with what I can do in terms of audio recording and video editing. In late October/early November last year, I started having some computer issues and had to go back to using my old computer, which I'd phased out of regular use in spring 2019. I got a new computer in early December, but so far I've been unable to find the installation discs for the programs I need, and I'm not sure they would work on such a new computer anyway. For now, I'm doing only simple and infrequent recordings.
Continuing Projects
Scales
When I sit down at or with an instrument, I play a scale, provided I know the instrument well enough that I can play a scale on it. I go in the order of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and move on to the next one on Sundays. For the first full week of 2025, I'll be practicing A minor. When I practice organ every day, I improvise to a backing track in the same key (or the relative major if I'm practicing a minor key that week).
For now, I plan to continue what I started last year and record my nightly improvisation for every time one of my cousin's bands has a show. I'm leaving the videos unlisted (with some exceptions), but the playlist is public.
This is my blog for hymns and (occasionally) classical sacred music. I had been recording a hymn tune from The Lutheran Hymnal every week (here's a playlist), but I took a break in November last year when I started having computer issues. For now, this break will continue.
Provided I get my software working, I want to record some of my own arrangements of hymn tunes, using the pipe organ sounds on my Hammond SKX.
On Wednesday, I have a post tracing the Biblical sources of a hymn in The Lutheran Service Book, and on most Fridays, I have a short post about a musical feature in a hymn (at some points last year, I'd run out of comments that weren't about seasonally specific hymns). On rare occasions, I post about classical sacred music on Monday.
Last year, I got pretty far ahead in writing posts about hymns' Biblical sources, and I'm going to try to finish those this year. I have eighty-one posts left to write.
Cover Projects
Initially, the goal for most of these was to learn every part to every song, and while I'm still working on that, the focus now has shifted more to writing about various features I notice. Here's a list of the projects and what bands they cover:
I've been reading the updated edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story, and I listen to the albums and watch the episodes when I read about their original releases and broadcasts. I'm doing the same sort of thing with The Beach Boys, which I plan to finish reading this year.
For every time that old high school classmates (a sometime singer-songwriter and a self-styled author) post about their projects, I figure out a part from a song by one of these bands and listen to an album (cycling through the projects and in a roughly chronological order within each project).
As sort of a sub-project to Verulam Cover Project, I plan to continue transcribing interviews with the Zombies for my blog where I collect their interviews and performances. My process, which I think I'll try to maintain, is to transcribe about a minute of audio for every Beatles reference I run across (because my initial idea for this project was a sort of response to the Get Back book, which contains transcriptions of the Beatles' conversations). I'll probably finish transcribing The Story of the Zombies by the end of January, after which I'll get back to the Rock Solid podcast, which I temporarily abandoned in the fall last year. The Zombies' panel at the Strand Book Store is an-other one on my list.
I'm going to re-read The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images, which I read only once before, in 2017 shortly after it came out.
I plan to maintain my tradition and watch the Zombies' Live from Studio Two on its anniversary on 18 September, but I also want to watch or listen to some other Zombies and Argent concerts on or around their anniversaries, particularly Live from Metropolis Studios in January, Odessey and Oracle {Revisited} in early March, Set of Six on 29 May, and Live at the Palace Theatre on 7 November.
I didn't get around to it last year, but I might try to figure out the trombone parts in the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" by carefully studying the slide positions in videos of live performances. If I get my software set up, I'm going to make a video demonstrating the organ part in the Beach Boys' "Be Still," which was an-other goal from last year that I never really got started on.
One of my Christmas gifts was The Monkees: Smoke-Filled Dreams, and I plan to start reading this, too.
These are also dependent on whether I get my software working, but I might attempt FAWM and 50/90 again.
Bach Cantatas
On Sunday, I listen to a Bach cantata, going in order by BWV number. Occasionally, I follow along in the notation and jot down some notes.
This year, I'll be listening to BWV 167 to BWV 200 (although the box set I have omits a handful in this range) then starting over in the cycle and going from BWV 1 to BWV 24 (missing only two: BWV 11 and BWV 15).
In 2019, I started a blog where I write about the Hohner Pianet, a German electric piano from the 1960s. As a continuation of the original demonstration disc, I've also recorded a number of pieces using Pianet samples on my Nord Electro 5D.
Near the end of last year, I started taking advantage of the split function on my Electro and playing Vox Continental on one half and Pianet on the other, which is the closest I can get to what Manfred Mann and Rod Argent did by stacking one keyboard on top of the other. I did a version of "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" this way. I'd like to do some more tunes in this manner, provided I can get my software working. My main goal for this project, though, is finally to finish off a post on Electric Light Orchestra's use of the Hohner Clavinet. Initially, I'd intended to do this in 2023 but forgot, and when I did start last year, I found that I needed to do more research than I expected, so I'm still working on it.
In March 2021, I started working through Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch, a collection of some 400 hymn tunes. Along with learning to play the pieces, I'm modernizing the notation. I post a tune every Thursday. I want to maintain my lead (I'm more than a year ahead in recording the tunes) and ideally increase it.
Aside from actually learning to play the pieces, the two aspects of this project that take the longest are creating digital copies of the notation and editing videos, and they've been hampered even further because I have to use my old computer to do them, but I'm going to try to stick to my schedule.
Mellotron
In 2023, I started recording selections from Telemann's ouvertures (TWV 55) and Corelli's trio sonatas (Opp. 1-4) using only Mellotron sounds, posting one piece from each collection every month: the Telemann on the Friday on or after the 14th and the Corelli on the following Friday. I'd recorded enough pieces before having computer issues to maintain this schedule until March this year, but I don't know if I'll be able to continue it.
If I get my software working, I also want to record a movement from a Telemann sonata for two flutes I've been working on.
Parroting the Bird
I've become increasingly frustrated that my cousin's band is getting more popular (and frankly more absurd) while I'm working hard on my musical projects and seemingly getting nowhere, so I started copying (to some degree) what he does. Usually, though, this just means that I listen to the albums he mentions and try to figure out parts to the songs he posts and alludes to (provided it's music that I'm interested in; I'm not going out of my way for this). His band is named after a sort of bird, so I felt that "parroting" was a good term to use, although it's not entirely accurate. I've been doing this for at least a year or two already, so I might as well make it an official project.
In February last year, he gained something like 6,000 Instagram followers after posting a video where he put one of his own songs over a clip from some cult classic cartoon (which I don't think is exactly legal), and I have something specific I want to do in response to this.
Projects Specific to 2025
BBC Albums
Sometime around late 2021 or early 2022, I had to idea to cycle through what live-at-the-BBC albums (and other recordings) I have. If I remember correctly, I delayed doing this for a while because in 2019, I did this with just the Beatles' BBC albums and wanted to take a break from listening to them. I'm going to listen to a disc on Saturday (because one of the shows was called Saturday Club), going roughly chronologically though:
The Zombies - The BBC Radio Sessions
The Beatles - Live at the BBC
Manfred Mann - Live at the BBC 64-66
The Rolling Stones - On Air
The Beatles - On Air - Live at the BBC, Vol. 2
Manfred Mann - Live at the BBC 66-69
The Who - BBC Sessions
Manfred Mann Chapter III - Live Sessions & Studio Rarities
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Live at the BBC 70-73
Argent - John Peel's Sunday Concert, 14 February 1971, which was available on Russ Ballard's website a number of years ago
Badfinger - In Concert at the BBC, 1972-3
Argent - Live at the Paris Theatre, 14 December 1972
Electric Light Orchestra - Live at the Guildhall, 1976
I also have Roy Orbison's Live at the BBC, which I might listen to a couple times, but I'm not including it in the rotation because - unlike all of these other bands - Orbison wasn't British.
Mozart Symphonies
A number of years ago, I got a box set of the complete Mozart symphonies performed by the Mozart Akademie Amsterdam. I plan on listening to it again in January to mark Mozart's birthday (on the 27th).
Bob Dylan and the Band
For Christmas, I received The 1974 Live Recordings box set by Bob Dylan and the Band. For my first time through it, I plan to listen to the concerts on their original dates (3 January to 14 February). Some days have two shows, though, so I'll probably listen to one a day early or a day late.
Carl Perkins
Four years ago, I got a Carl Perkins compilation album in the Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection series. For some reason (maybe the mastering or just the song selection), I liked this much better than the two-disc set I'd already had for years. I listened to it a couple times last year (once, just by coincidence, on Perkins' birthday) and still really like it, and I want to figure out at least one of the guitar solos on the album.
Duke Ellington
In September 2023, I started reading a biography of Ellington (Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout). I had been reading it fairly consistently, albeit slowly, since late April last year but lost some momentum in late summer/early fall when I was sick, never really got back to it, and then set it aside for all of December when I was focusing on other books I wanted to finish by the end of the year. I want to finish it this year and also listen to two box sets I have, a two-disc set in the Classic Jazz Archive series and a ten-disc set titled just Duke Ellington. I plan to listen to the ten-disc set in April, since Ellington's birthday is 29 April.
Carl Nielsen
In 2023, I'd found a piece that Nielsen wrote for two recorders, and I'd intended to do this as a sort of bonus to my project of recording his chorales on my Moog last year, but then I had computer issues. I'm going to do it this year, even if I have to record it on my old computer. I also want to listen to a ten-disc set titled The Danish Symphonist, probably in June since Nielsen's birthday is 9 June.
Here's how I did on my 2024 musical projects. In late October/early November, I started having some computer issues, and these seriously affected some of my progress. I was able to hobble along using my old computer, but I'm still limited in what I can do.
Continuing Projects
Scales
When I sit down at or with an instrument, I play a scale, provided I know the instrument well enough that I can play a scale on it. I go in the order of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and move on to the next one on Sundays. For the first week of 2024, I'll be practicing G major. When I practice organ every day, I improvise to a backing track in the same key (or the relative major if I'm practicing a minor key that week).
Early in January, I decided that for every time one of my cousin's bands has a live show, I'm going to record my nightly improvisation and post it. I'm leaving the videos unlisted (with some exceptions), but the playlist is public.
This is my blog for hymns and (occasionally) classical sacred music. On Sunday, I post a recording of a hymn tune (I've been making my way through The Lutheran Hymnal), playing (usually) the four-part arrangement with mandolin (soprano and alto), guitar (tenor), and electric bass (bass). On Wednesday, I have a post tracing the Biblical sources of a hymn in The Lutheran Service Book, and on Friday, I have a short post about a musical feature in a hymn. On rare occasions, I post about classical sacred music on Monday.
For writing the posts on the Biblical sources for a hymn, I'm going to follow the system I devised last year and (try to) write a post every Sunday and for every time the hymn is included in the recording of the daily chapel service from the university I want to attend.
Because I've been consistently writing about musical features in hymns, I've almost run out of new things to post. Most of what I have left are features in hymns that are for specific seasons, and I plan to wait until they're seasonally appropriate to write about.
In late April/early May, I temporarily ran out of small features to note in hymns (aside from seasonally specific hymns), so instead, I started recording and posting my own arrangements of hymn tunes, in the same sort of style as James Bastien's Great Hymns Arranged for Organ, which I'd gone through last year. So far, I've done "Westminster Abbey,""Beach Spring," and "Jesus ist kommen, Grund ewiger Freude." I've come up with arrangements for "Wo Gott zum Haus," "Freu dich sehr," and "Southwell," too, but I haven't gotten around to recording them yet.
By early October, I'd reached a point in writing about the Biblical sources for hymn texts that I had posts scheduled for about two years in advance (when I didn't have any features to write about for Friday, I wrote a sources post instead), so I adjusted my schedule and started writing a sources post only every Sunday (sometimes more if I saw that the next hymn would be easy to write about). My hope was that this would free me up some to work on other projects with tighter deadlines.
When I started having computer issues, I took a break from recording the tunes from The Lutheran Hymnal. I'd done one every week since July 2019.
Cover Projects
Initially, the goal for most of these was to learn every part to every song, and while I'm still working on that, the focus now has shifted more to writing about various features I notice. Here's a list of the projects and what bands they cover:
Byrd Dimension hadn't had the same sort of status as the other projects, but last year, I decided to make it a full-fledged project (partially because my cousin's band is named after a bird, and I feel I have to work at least as hard as he does). In the last month or so of 2023, I listened to all of the Byrds albums from Fifth Dimension to (Untitled) plus The Byrds Play Dylan, and I have a slew of notes that I want to flesh out into posts this year.
I've been reading the updated edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story, and I listen to the albums and watch the episodes when I read about their original releases and broadcasts.
For every time that old high school classmates (a sometime singer-songwriter and a self-styled author) post about their projects, I figure out a part from a song by one of these bands and listen to an album (cycling through the projects and in a roughly chronological order within each project).
I also have a few specific sub-projects for this year:
I don't know if I'll be able to do this, but I want at least to try to figure out the trombone parts in the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" by carefully studying the slide positions in videos of live performances (as far as I know, there are only two: the 2008 Odessey and Oracle concert DVD and the 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony).
I want to make videos demonstrating the organ part in the Beach Boys' "Be Still" (with notation) and the piano solo in the Moody Blues' "Please Think about It."
My posts on Byrds songs were published one a week from the beginning of the year until the beginning of April, although I'd finished writing them by the middle of February.
I guess I forgot to mention this at the beginning of the year, but as a part of my Monkees project, I read Micky Dolenz's I'm Told I Had a Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Volume One. I started on 1 January and finished on 17 October.
I didn't get around to any of my sub-projects. I never even tried to figure out the trombone parts in "This Will Be Our Year"; I intended to begin work on a video about the organ part in "Be Still" in November, but then I started having computer problems, which prevented me; and the more I thought about a video on the piano solo in "Please Think about It," the more I thought it wouldn't be worth it.
I got The Beach Boys (the first official book by the band) in April, and like I'm doing with The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story, I've been listening to the albums after I read about their release, although I've been procrastinating on Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) because it feels out of season to listen to it in winter. I'm up to Smiley Smile in the book now, so I have some catching up to do.
I maintained my tradition of watching the Zombies' Live from Studio Two on its anniversary on 18 September, and I think I started a new one with Argent's appearance on Set of Six, which is dated 29 May 1972.
I made a few recordings to demonstrate what parts I've learned
Like I said last year, I'm still more interesting in playing other people's music than in writing my own, but I guess I'll attempt FAWM and 50/90 again.
I wrote two songs for FAWM: "Pairs Generate a Quaternity" (my attempt at a sort of eighteenth-century country dance) and "Under My Eyes" (played with the same types of instruments from the Zombies' Decca period). I wrote only one song for 50/90: "Diluculum saluberrimum" (something like a small-scale version of Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline Rag").
Bach Cantatas
On Sunday, I listen to a Bach cantata, going in order by BWV number. Occasionally, I follow along in the notation and jot down some notes.
This year, I'll be listening to BWV 111 through BWV 166, but the box set I have omits a handful between those numbers.
As usual, I don't have much to say about this, but I did do it.
Mandolin Monday
Every Monday, I post a recording of a mandolin piece on Instagram and Twitter, and I upload a slightly edited re-run on YouTube. I plan to continue doing selections from Francis O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, although I may do something different every now and then.
In December last year, I'd found a 1795 manuscript of traditional Welsh, Irish, and Scottish tunes on the Royal College of Music's Internet Archive account, and in mid-March, I started alternating between these tunes (for which I'm also modernizing the notation) and the tunes from The Dance Music of Ireland, with the occasional tune from flutetunes thrown in.
In 2019, I started a blog where I write about the Hohner Pianet, a German electric piano from the 1960s, and, as a continuation of the original demonstration disc, record pieces using Pianet samples on my Nord Electro 5D.
I plan to post a few pieces from Telemann's 168 Keyboard Pieces that I recorded last year, but currently I have no plans to do any more recordings for this project (aside from one of the Telemann pieces that I want to re-do).
I also plan to write a post about Electric Light Orchestra's use of the Hohner Clavinet, which I'd intended to do last year but didn't get around to.
I've been working on a post on ELO's Clavinet, but research is taking longer than I expected, so I haven't finished it yet. I should have it done by the end of January, though.
In March 2021, I started working through Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch, a collection of some 400 hymn tunes. Along with learning to play the pieces, I'm modernizing the notation. I post a tune every Thursday. I want to maintain my lead (I'm a year ahead in recording the tunes) and ideally increase it.
I tried to record a tune a week on average. I exceeded this goal most months but merely met it in March and didn't even get close in November (because of my computer issues, I recorded only one tune). Making videos for the tunes takes up considerably more time (especially now that I have to use my old computer), and I'm only about a month ahead in that process. I think I'm a bit over halfway through in recording the tunes, though. There are 433, and I'm in the 220s, but some numbers have more than one tune (which I've been marking as A and B).
Mellotron
Last year, I started recording selections from Telemann's ouvertures (TWV 55) and Corelli's trio sonatas (Opp. 1-4) using only Mellotron sounds. I plan to continue this, posting one piece from each collection every month: the Telemann on the Friday on or after the 14th and the Corelli on the following Friday. Occasionally, I do other pieces entirely with Mellotron sounds, but currently, I don't have plans for anything other than the Telemann ouvertures and Corelli trio sonatas.
I tried to record at least one piece from each of these collections every month (and was successful until I started having computer problems), and I workt ahead until March next year.
Projects Specific to 2024
Nielsen: Salmer og aandelige Sange
In July last year, I had the idea to record chorales from Bach's cantatas by multitracking my Moog. In the notation I have, though, each vocal part is in a different clef, and I didn't think it would be worth the effort to transpose each part to a clef I can read more easily. In September, though, I remembered some chorales by Carl Nielsen that I'd run across years earlier, and I started recording those instead. I held off on posting them so I could build up a reserve and so that I could post all of the pieces in the same calendar year. I plan to start posting (on Tuesdays) what I've already recorded and to finish recording the rest of them. Currently, I have five pieces ready to post and five I need to mix and edit videos for.
I finished recording these near the beginning of November and posted the last one at the beginning of December. Here's a link to the playlist.
A number of years ago, I started a blog to collect performances by and interviews with the Zombies. It had lain dormant for a while, but I started doing some more work on it last year. This year, I want to work consistently on transcribing some of the interviews so that specific topics are easier to find, either for me or for anyone else doing research on the band. I got the idea partly from the Beatles' Get Back book (which I got for Christmas in 2022 and which I started reading to-day). The book is basically transcriptions of conversations that the Beatles had during the recording of Let It Be, and I felt that if there's a book of conversations that the Beatles had during the sessions for just one album, there should be transcriptions of interviews that the Zombies have done over the course of many years. My plan is to transcribe a minute or so of audio for every Beatles reference I run across. I've been working on transcribing a 2017 interview from the Grammy Museum (I started with that one because the video is no longer publicly available, but I'd downloaded it years ago), and after I finish that, I'll prioritize the interviews that are oldest or feature the most band members and work my way forward.
I didn't really get started on this until the middle of March. I finished transcribing the Grammy Museum interview near the end of March. Next, I did the BBC Mastertapes programs, which I'd actually started transcribing in October 2022, about a year before starting the Grammy Museum interview. I finished that near the end of May. Then, I did the appearance on the Summit, which I finished in mid-July. I did some work on the Rock Solid podcast but took a break for most of August and instead transcribed somearticles that the Argent Facebook page posted. Doing text-to-text was faster than audio-to-text, and I hoped that this would help me catch up some (I'm not sure if it did). Instead of a minute of audio, I did about a column for every Beatles reference I came across. Around October or November, I sort of temporarily abandoned the Rock Solid podcast, transcribed a short appearance for radio.com, and then started on The Story of the Zombies from 2015. I have only about ten minutes left. Despite working on this project fairly consistently, I'm still about seven months behind.
Get Back
Along with reading the book Get Back, I'm going to watch the documentary again. So far, I've seen it only once. My plan is to watch a day's worth at a time, on the day it happened.
Although I have the movie on Bluray, I watched it on Disney+. Since my internet was out one day (14 January), I had to double up on the next day. I finished reading Get Back on 24 May. I also read Paul McCartney's 1964: Eyes of the Storm (from 1 January to 28 July).
Other Things to Note
Like I've done some other years, I listened to a thirteen-disc box set of Chopin's piano works (daily starting 1 March, Chopin's birthday), and starting on the anniversary of Bach's death (28 July), I listened to a seventeen-disc box set of his complete organ works, followed by the complete organ works of Buxtehude (six discs), both at the rate of a disc a week.
I figured out 179 parts, but I never wrote down some of them and might have forgotten them by now (only twelve, some of which I filmed videos of, so I do have some record). Like I did last year, I made an effort to figure out parts to songs that were posted or alluded to by various bands my cousin is in. Here's a list:
The Beatles - "Your Mother Should Know" - piano phrase first at ~0:47
The Beatles - "Your Mother Should Know" - chords
The Beatles - "Drive My Car" - piano (but very roughly and because I didn't write it down, I've since forgotten it)
The Beatles - "Drive My Car" - chords (which I also never wrote down and have probably forgotten by now)
Simon & Garfunkel - "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - vocal melody for the first verse
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Born on the Bayou" - chords
Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth" - chords
Because he mentioned Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram as a favorite album, I listened to it again and learned some guitar phrases in "Smile Away." For similar reasons, I listened to all of the Who albums I have (and bought My Generation) and learned some parts: the French horn in "Overture" from Tommy, some guitar phrases in "Pure and Easy," the recurring guitar phrase and chords in "A Legal Matter," and the bass in the choruses of "Who Are You."
Here are my musical projects for 2024, starting with those that I'm continuing from previous years.
Continuing Projects
Scales
When I sit down at or with an instrument, I play a scale, provided I know the instrument well enough that I can play a scale on it. I go in the order of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and move on to the next one on Sundays. For the first week of 2024, I'll be practicing G major. When I practice organ every day, I improvise to a backing track in the same key (or the relative major if I'm practicing a minor key that week).
This is my blog for hymns and (occasionally) classical sacred music. On Sunday, I post a recording of a hymn tune (I've been making my way through The Lutheran Hymnal), playing (usually) the four-part arrangement with mandolin (soprano and alto), guitar (tenor), and electric bass (bass). On Wednesday, I have a post tracing the Biblical sources of a hymn in The Lutheran Service Book, and on Friday, I have a short post about a musical feature in a hymn. On rare occasions, I post about classical sacred music on Monday.
For writing the posts on the Biblical sources for a hymn, I'm going to follow the system I devised last year and (try to) write a post every Sunday and for every time the hymn is included in the recording of the daily chapel service from the university I want to attend.
Because I've been consistently writing about musical features in hymns, I've almost run out of new things to post. Most of what I have left are features in hymns that are for specific seasons, and I plan to wait until they're seasonally appropriate to write about.
Cover Projects
Initially, the goal for most of these was to learn every part to every song, and while I'm still working on that, the focus now has shifted more to writing about various features I notice. Here's a list of the projects and what bands they cover:
Byrd Dimension hadn't had the same sort of status as the other projects, but last year, I decided to make it a full-fledged project (partially because my cousin's band is named after a bird, and I feel I have to work at least as hard as he does). In the last month or so of 2023, I listened to all of the Byrds albums from Fifth Dimension to (Untitled) plus The Byrds Play Dylan, and I have a slew of notes that I want to flesh out into posts this year.
I've been reading the updated edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story, and I listen to the albums and watch the episodes when I read about their original releases and broadcasts.
For every time that old high school classmates (a sometime singer-songwriter and a self-styled author) post about their projects, I figure out a part from a song by one of these bands and listen to an album (cycling through the projects and in a roughly chronological order within each project).
I also have a few specific sub-projects for this year:
I don't know if I'll be able to do this, but I want at least to try to figure out the trombone parts in the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" by carefully studying the slide positions in videos of live performances (as far as I know, there are only two: the 2008 Odessey and Oracle concert DVD and the 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony).
I want to make videos demonstrating the organ part in the Beach Boys' "Be Still" (with notation) and the piano solo in the Moody Blues' "Please Think about It."
Like I said last year, I'm still more interesting in playing other people's music than in writing my own, but I guess I'll attempt FAWM and 50/90 again.
Bach Cantatas
On Sunday, I listen to a Bach cantata, going in order by BWV number. Occasionally, I follow along in the notation and jot down some notes.
This year, I'll be listening to BWV 111 through BWV 166, but the box set I have omits a handful between those numbers.
Mandolin Monday
Every Monday, I post a recording of a mandolin piece on Instagram and Twitter, and I upload a slightly edited re-run on YouTube. I plan to continue doing selections from Francis O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, although I may do something different every now and then.
In 2019, I started a blog where I write about the Hohner Pianet, a German electric piano from the 1960s, and, as a continuation of the original demonstration disc, record pieces using Pianet samples on my Nord Electro 5D.
I plan to post a few pieces from Telemann's 168 Keyboard Pieces that I recorded last year, but currently I have no plans to do any more recordings for this project (aside from one of the Telemann pieces that I want to re-do).
I also plan to write a post about Electric Light Orchestra's use of the Hohner Clavinet, which I'd intended to do last year but didn't get around to.
In March 2021, I started working through Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch, a collection of some 400 hymn tunes. Along with learning to play the pieces, I'm modernizing the notation. I post a tune every Thursday. I want to maintain my lead (I'm a year ahead in recording the tunes) and ideally increase it.
Mellotron
Last year, I started recording selections from Telemann's ouvertures (TWV 55) and Corelli's trio sonatas (Opp. 1-4) using only Mellotron sounds. I plan to continue this, posting one piece from each collection every month: the Telemann on the Friday on or after the 14th and the Corelli on the following Friday. Occasionally, I do other pieces entirely with Mellotron sounds, but currently, I don't have plans for anything other than the Telemann ouvertures and Corelli trio sonatas.
Projects Specific to 2024
Nielsen: Salmer og aandelige Sange
In July last year, I had the idea to record chorales from Bach's cantatas by multitracking my Moog. In the notation I have, though, each vocal part is in a different clef, and I didn't think it would be worth the effort to transpose each part to a clef I can read more easily. In September, though, I remembered some chorales by Carl Nielsen that I'd run across years earlier, and I started recording those instead. I held off on posting them so I could build up a reserve and so that I could post all of the pieces in the same calendar year. I plan to start posting (on Tuesdays) what I've already recorded and to finish recording the rest of them. Currently, I have five pieces ready to post and five I need to mix and edit videos for.
A number of years ago, I started a blog to collect performances by and interviews with the Zombies. It had lain dormant for a while, but I started doing some more work on it last year. This year, I want to work consistently on transcribing some of the interviews so that specific topics are easier to find, either for me or for anyone else doing research on the band. I got the idea partly from the Beatles' Get Back book (which I got for Christmas in 2022 and which I started reading to-day). The book is basically transcriptions of conversations that the Beatles had during the recording of Let It Be, and I felt that if there's a book of conversations that the Beatles had during the sessions for just one album, there should be transcriptions of interviews that the Zombies have done over the course of many years. My plan is to transcribe a minute or so of audio for every Beatles reference I run across. I've been working on transcribing a 2017 interview from the Grammy Museum (I started with that one because the video is no longer publicly available, but I'd downloaded it years ago), and after I finish that, I'll prioritize the interviews that are oldest or feature the most band members and work my way forward.
Get Back
Along with reading the book Get Back, I'm going to watch the documentary again. So far, I've seen it only once. My plan is to watch a day's worth at a time, on the day it happened.
