Welcome to Episode 82 of my podcast, from the crow's nest and it is. I believe the 26th of August, 2020. So, today. Today has been a continuation of the, the marketing side the promotion side of grip the sky. So, I'm sure you know by now grip the sky is made up, and it's coming out on Saturday. And I'm releasing it as the grip the sky experience, which is an experience of the bay, whatever that means it will be more clear on Saturday. When you've got a moment to have a look and go through it. But of course just creating the songs is one thing creating the content the experiences. The second thing, but marketing and getting out to people. The third thing, the, you know, the idea is using the 8020 rule for example that 20% of your work in any business should be on creating a product and 80% or more should be on actually selling it marketing it, because otherwise, what's the point. No one's going to hear it or see it or consumer enjoy it or benefit from it. And so today, I was I sent an email to my mailing list yesterday and today I was replying to emails to responses I got. And it was great. It was a little. I mean, it took me a good sort of hour or two to reply to the emails, but it was great, it gave me kind of a re glimpse of position I was in five odd years ago when I was putting a lot more focus and time into music and. About five years ago. And I'd spend about an hour and a half, two hours a day replying to messages from people all over the world who had nice things to say to me, to do with my music and what I was doing and it was wonderful when I was connecting with people you know with fans and it was really cool. And then in the intervening years I focused more on business like UK open mic and more family as meaner. You know became a toddler and got older and then Leonardo was born. And then I've been focused on other business as you probably know, so it's kind of glimpsing back at my, my original you know hope of being a musician my original focuses on compassion on being a musician and working on music. And to that end, after I finished replying to the emails. I was then thought let me get the songs ready for the next couple of posts for the lab, the lab is my private member's club I post a new bit of music every Thursday as best I can post a version of a full song. But it's not always that sometimes it's instrumental stuff sometimes it's more of a sketch of an idea, but hopefully it's something interesting and fun. And so I wanted to get ahead of the curve and you know get that ready so I pulled out a couple ideas from the archive one was a song called Don't cry baby, which I wrote around 2012, it seems, and I just had an acoustic version of acoustic guitar vocal and the vocal wasn't very good. It has a fairly off key I seem to remember that it was one of those where I wrote the song and then I did sign a one taken a phone call wasn't really sure of it. I wasn't confident in my voice I'm still not very confident with my voice but I'm a lot more confident than I was five, six years ago. And, you know, it was just it was a bit of a, you know you could hear the lack of confidence and direction and melody in the vocal, but I actually it's one of the few songs, where I actually wrote the melody properly like I worked it out. You wouldn't you wouldn't know from that recording but. And so, you know, I knew that that that melody wasn't quite right. And so I thought you know I want to, as I'm doing with all these songs, you know I'm loading them into Cubase my music production software and I've given them a bit of extra sheen before I put them in the lab, because you know it takes me a little bit of time extra, but hopefully it makes them sound a bit more interesting and a bit more impactful and a bit more pleasant on the ears, basically, and also gives me a little bit of practice every week or every time I do a song with Cubase with our production skills and that can't be a bad thing. So, I was going to put up okay we're goi
