{"id":35,"date":"2011-02-04T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-02-04T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:56:00","slug":"update-its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Update! It&#8217;s been a while&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry &#8211; to anyone who bothers to read this blog &#8211; for the long, <em>long<\/em> delay in new postings. A lot has been going on in my musical life, and I should have some new things to post about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve completely upgraded the computer and software in Digital Din (my studio)<\/li>\n<li>My project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinwithin.com\/\">Din Within <\/a>has recorded a track for a tribute album to the band Yes<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been recording an EP for a local band called &#8220;The Fynline&#8221; &#8211; a nice group of teenagers from my hometown<\/li>\n<li>Josh and I have continued to write and record for our second Din Within Album<\/li>\n<li>I commissioned and received an awesome new 6-string bass from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoytbasses.com\/\">Karl Hoyt<\/a> &#8211; the one-of-a-kind &#8220;Monkey Bass&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I have acquired not <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldin.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/re-living-past-bassically.html\">my original Ransomed Soul bass<\/a>, but an &#8220;exact replica&#8221; on eBay &#8212; and am in the process of modding it to be like my original bass<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also done the same with a 5-string Samick bass &#8211; it&#8217;s black instead of pearl white, and has a slightly different headstock, but it&#8217;s pretty close!<\/li>\n<li>The above two points are particularly relevant because we&#8217;re planning a 20-year reunion concert for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/Ransomed-Soul-1990-1994\/109100762471964\">the band Ransomed Soul<\/a> &#8211; coming this Spring!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not music-related &#8211; but one other major thing; my wife and I are expecting our first child in a matter of weeks (if not days!) So&#8230; that&#8217;s had me pretty preoccupied.<\/p>\n<p>So, hopefully, I&#8217;ll get back on the bandwagon and post some new stuff!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry &#8211; to anyone who bothers to read this blog &#8211; for the long, long delay in new postings. A lot has been going on in my musical life, and I should have some new&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}