Geoff Duncan

Well, it's finally happened: pop music has become so boring that I have fallen asleep recording it. No, not "recording" as in ripping, mixing, burning, dubbing, copying, or pressing Play and Record at the same time when something good comes on the radio. No. "Recording" as in tracking guitar and bass parts in a dippy little 60-second teaser diva-pop uptempo R&B whatsit I'm trying to finish up for an agency. I cue everything up, set punch points, hit record, turn to get the single-coil pickups out of the interference from my monitors, start listening for my cue at bar 21...

...and slip back into awareness to find the computer helpfully recording the sounds of silence at bar 437. That's about 15 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back.

I'm not sure there's enough coffee in the world to get me through this.