A great way to start the new year

Leon and I took a road trip to Central Florida to see my brother and his girlfriend over New Year’s.

On New Year’s Eve we talked about serious subjects, in between having fun, and stayed up until 2009 came in.

On New Year’s Day we acted silly, made videos of same, went to a park, and just plain did nothing but have fun.

And today, on the day Shelly posts and asks us to join in and post “Only the Good” on Friday, I got another dose of “good” old fashioned fun.

This morning, Lina had to go back to work and Leon had to catch up on business, but I got to see how my brother records the music for his music videos using a loop machine that has a drum thingie in it. It’s really a cool piece of equipment. He puts it on the floor, leans over to set the drum tempo and type, then records himself playing rhythm on guitar over the drums, then records over that playing lead. He uses a keyboard synthesizer to add bass (until he gets another bass guitar). Watching him control the looping with his feet was fun.

When Leon emerged from his phone calls, Bill taught Leon and I a guitar chord, then recorded mine over Leon’s, and played lead over our horrid sounding attempt.

No, we did not save it for you to hear! That was a good thing. I can safely say you are thanking me!

Play is good for us all. Have you played yet this new year? Bill McLees is my brother and for him work is play. If he is not videoing weddings or parties (or himself), he is writing words to put to music or he is playing this way:

Now, if only he would put to music the poem I wrote to be my first song…. but I can’t complain about that, can I? After all, today is about ONLY the Good…

Get out there and have fun, play, find the good! (And yes, I know Friday went before I got this posted, played too much, and it was a long drive back home, but I made more good memories.)