Still Getting the Hang of It

I've noticed that the same post has been posted twice. I also noticed that I've a grammatical no-no in my somewhat longish post. I'm usually more careful. I'm going to attempt to fix the error and delete the redundant post. Wish me luck.
Wish me luck. Who the hell am I talking to? Meself, that's who.

I'm sure I won't be anywhere near as eloquent as I was yesterday but here goes.
I started out by saying that the pursuit of perfectionism is the single reason why so many things in life never get done. The first entry in this blog ends with a question and although I haven't posted much yet, I didn't want to answer the question until I had the opportunity to revisit the song the lyrics from whence the question came.
I went on to say that I only have that particular track on vinyl and my record collection, which spent most of its life in nice shelving units arranged alphabetically by genre, band and year released, now resides in various boxes and crates in my new house. The house isn't new, just newly purchased. Well... newly purchased two years ago.
I wanted to wait until I got all of the scraping, sanding and painting done before I broke out my records, CDs, books etc... but it didn't work out that way. There goes that perfectionism again.
Someone should do a dissertation on the relationship between perfectionism and procrastination if it hasn't already been done.
Anyway, back to the quote. "This moment is like no other moment" is from a song called, you guessed it, This Moment. It was recorded by a trio of Scotsman called The Incredible String Band. Actually, by the time that particular track came out the trio was reduced to a duo but then expanded again by the duos respective girlfriends into a quartet.
The Incredible String Band, in all its various permutations, existed from 1967 to 1974 and yes, they were incredible. Consisting of Mike Heron (guitar, piano, organ, sitar) Robin Williamson (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, flute, bowed gimbri) and Clive Palmer (banjo, guitar) for the first LP anyway, The ISB had even the Beatles and The Rolling Stones listening to them with envious ears at one point for the sheer originality and uniqueness of their songcraft. Heron and Williamson, both multi instrumentalists, wrote some of the most beautiful and mischievous songs of the 60's and early 70's blending blues, folk, traditional English and Irish with traditional Afghani and Indian motifs to come up with some of the most inventive music ever recorded under the folk/rock mantle to date.
There's another side to that coin however. Isn't there always?
When you've got a couple of guys who are that willing to stretch and take chances you naturally get some chaff along with the wheat, so be careful if you decide to seek them out and purchase a disc or two. I'm not sure how much of their material has been released on CD, especially in the U.S.A. I'm sure more of their cataloge is available in the U.K. If you can find them on a file sharing site somewhere look for an LP entitled 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion, which contains such ISB classics as The First Girl I Loved, Hedgehog Song, Painting Box and Chinese White.
The Incredibles made a lot of wonderfully inventive and unforgettable music but for the average music listener, even those of you who consider yourselves adventurous, I'd have to say they are an acquired taste. Well worth the acquiring but you've got to start in the right place.

Believe it or not, I just spent the better part of the last 30 minutes posting my longest and most informative post to date. I went to preview it and when I returned to post it, "POOF!" It was gone. I'm extremely pissed. But I've been thinking about it all day so I'll recreate it when I get home. Just a short preview. The post had to do with the Incredible String Band, the fellas from whom I nicked the "this moment is like no other moment" line in my first post.
In other words, I finally got off my duff, or got on my duff if you want to be literal about it and answered the question I posed All those weeks ago. Oh Well, Parts I and II.
I don't think I'll be previewing until I figure out How do you work this thing?
You may think I'm crazy, or that I don't know when to capitalize a word but in reality, I've just left 4 new song clues. Only three were intentional, the last one just spilled out somewhat naturally because it concerns a band I don't really care for.
Oh, now I see it. Save as Draft. Damn it.

Farewell

Farewell to Paul Hester. Prayers and sympathy to his family and friends. I know what you went through, Paul. May God be kinder to you now. I'd like to believe.

So, I said I might...

So, I said I might not post again. Two months. Not bad if you actually knew me. I may have to change the name of the blog (again, as if anyone gives a ...) because it really won't have anything to do with Booze. Those days are way behind me.
If you read my updated profile you'll be able to tell I'm a bit of a geezer, but the band I want you to check out as soon as you can is a trio from England called I Am Kloot. They are much more recent than most of muscians I'll be discussing but they came to mind and I don't really want to limit myself to the past anyway.
That's all for now! Sorry so short.