The Birth of Loud by Ian S Port is a good read about the heyday of electric guitar and bass development and the relationship between Leo Fender, Les Paul, Gibson, Paul Bigsby, etc.
Have come down with a cold. Managed to power through a three-hour rehearsal this afternoon feeling not too bad, but then I had to carry all my stuff down a flight of stairs and then a couple of hundred yards to the car. Wrecked now, and back to work tomorrow – yay.
We only have two confirmed gigs so far this year, one almost confirmed, and some vague talk about another couple. I'm still grafting to try and get more but nobody else in the band seems to particularly care if we don't get any more.
I don't know about texts but I've recently had legitimate emails from FB with recovery codes, indicating that someone has tried to access my account, but the fact that I have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled means they haven't been able to.
I've had this with Club Foot, where the original bassine was recorded by the guitarist, and the live version of the bass solo is very different to what's on the recorded version.
I've heard lots of tales of companies holding their Christmas parties in January, often just because of lack of availability of venues (i.e. everyone argued about who was going to organise it long enough to not be able to book anywhere before Christmas), but a Wednesday definitely seems like an odd one even though the reasons are sound.