Jamie and Natasha had their wedding party on Monday night. Although they’ve been together for several years, they had never had a party with their friends, plus it was excellent timing since Jamie’s family is in Hiroshima now to visit them. We started off at 6pm with about 35 people at Rendez-Vous for food, drinks, and general merriment, and then moved on to a much larger event at El Barco starting at 9:30pm. A large group showed up at El Barco, many of us with instruments, and we celebrated for hours making music. The party was still going strong when I finally gave in and went home at 3:30am.

By the way, the kilt-clad Jamie and his two brothers, Fran and Simon, were a big hit with the ladies, and not because their knees were exposed. I wouldn’t be suprised if a few interesting “up-skirt” photos started showing up on the Internet soon.

For quite some time I’ve been wanting to add another effects unit to my rack for the melody strings, but I had given up on the idea because I can’t afford it right now. But, I started obsessing about the idea again last night, and stayed up rather late reading on-line product manuals again. I’m leaning toward products made by T.C. Electronic and Lexicon. The idea is to connect another processor in series with the Boss SE-70 that I’m currently using, to expand the palette and flexibility of sounds on the melody side. For now, I’ve simply re-wired my current rack so that both of my SE-70s are now processing the melody strings. This leaves my bass strings un-processed, which isn’t necessarily a downside, although I would like to eventually move one of the SE-70s back to the bass side.