{"id":178120,"date":"2024-10-21T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178120"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:02:12","slug":"cast-the-first-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/21\/cast-the-first-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast The First Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well somebody has to if only to be the scapegoat? <br><br> The arts usually require a certain bone headedness to succeed I believe. Change my mind.<br>Good, so can we all agree on that one I think. people will mostly tell you what you are doing wrong or that you should give up. <br><br>I listened to Elephant Shelfs first proper Album from 2010, its held up better than I thought it would! Somebody mentioned it on Facebook today so thought I ought to give it a listen again.<br>It was the first full band album I recorded\/produced (as well as played on, though I had been recording for years) and people loved it at the time and some still do it seems. It&#8217;s very different recording a band than recording just yourself on a multitrack. It was mostly live with a couple of instruments added in later. You can&#8217;t tell with your own work at the time, you might judge it say as technically proficient but not see its artistic merit or vice versa. Some music I have done in the past stands up very well, but at the time of making it I didn&#8217;t think it was anything much at all. Some though is a train wreck. <br><br>This week my sister visited for 3 days and we repotted some plants and stuff like that which is not my area of expertise at all, but is hers as a trained horticulturist.  It did stretch a few muscles that are not in regular use though. Pleasant enough, then back to the music stuff on Friday again.<br><br>Wearing my Jazz\/Swing hat here live with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonrock.com\/orchard\">Orchard<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 <br><br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45HYSva0kWk?si=sa0fg5jXqaZZi_Va\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current track I am recording is not inspiring me much as the vocals sounding a bit tired and uninspired. I will try again, but not today as my heart&#8217;s not in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another acquaintance has left this mortal realm I discover. Once we get to this sort of age its a never ending stream it seems. A friend of my partners is terminally ill and likely to be going soon.  Everything, everywhere at once it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-medium-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8e30ccb289cdbced72d06e40f4e1d535\">Latest tune. <br><strong>Wish You Would Let Me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1938910265&amp;color=%238c8cc8&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Wish You Would  Let  Me\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/wish-you-would-let-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wish You Would Let Me<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I never was a big fan of Guinness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"512\" data-attachment-id=\"178145\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/21\/cast-the-first-stone\/di-with-mud-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C1017&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1017\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Di-with-Mud-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2.jpg?fit=604%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2-1024x868.jpg?resize=604%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C868&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2.jpg?resize=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2.jpg?resize=768%2C651&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Di-with-Mud-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well somebody has to if only to be the scapegoat? The arts usually require a certain bone headedness to succeed I believe. Change my mind.Good, so can we all agree on that one I think. people will mostly tell you what you are doing wrong or that you should give up. I listened to Elephant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/21\/cast-the-first-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cast The First Stone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-183124.jpg?fit=1438%2C965&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KkU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108867,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/02\/23\/recording-a-delta-ladies-album-at-coach-house-studios-in-hesdin\/","url_meta":{"origin":178120,"position":0},"title":"Recording a Delta Ladies Album at Coach House studios in Hesdin","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 23, 2018","format":"image","excerpt":"Last couple of days in France putting down tracks for the new Delta Ladies Album.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180220_135310-e1519422085617-576x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180220_135310-e1519422085617-576x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180220_135310-e1519422085617-576x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175231,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/02\/03\/further-on-down-the-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":178120,"position":1},"title":"Further On Down the Road","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello from the hale and ancient. 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