Incidentally, this is not a personal blog. Even I'm not interested in how many Christmas cards I've received this year, or what I had for lunch yesterday, so why would you be?

This is a development blog so that you (and I) can keep track of what's new on this site. That may not seem particularly interesting to you either, but believe me it is much more so than yesterday's macaroni cheese.

So, in the last few days:

• The lyrics for Upon This Rock have been verified against the (Capitol) LP sleeve.
  
• The lyrics for Planet have been verified against the MGM LP sleeve.
  
• A Garden page has been created.
• The link buttons on the Albums landing page have been replaced with images. Which function as links.
• Links have been added to the album pages, taking you straight to that album in the Solid Rock online shop. They need to eat too you know. And I'd rather give them your money than my own.
• The lyrics for Garden have been updated / corrected by listening to the original MGM vinyl.
• An In Another Land page has been created, and the lyrics verified against the LP sleeve.
• Added audio to the accordion tab of the song Six Sixty Six on the In Another Land page, allowing you to hear Larry's most secret message, Wolf In White Van, without destroying the needle on your record player.
• Added overlays for Upon This Rock, with song descriptions taken from the 2CD version booklet.

• Added more information about the songs Prelude, You Can't Take Away The Lord and I Don't Believe In Miracles, detailing how many released versions there are, and where they can be found.
  
• Created individual song pages for All Fall Down, All I See Is You...  and When All My Dreams Are Ending - also known as All My Dreams. Also created song pages (basically duplicates of the overlays) for the three Upon This Rock tracks mentioned above. Here, here, and here.
• Added a temporary landing page so you can find these song pages, which are fully searchable by the way.
• And, just a few minutes ago, I added a song page for All The Way Home.

Right now, I'm off to make myself a cup of tea. Two sugars. And milk.

The beginning of this website I mean, not of anything important.

As phans of Larry's music know all too well, over the years many of his songs have been included on more than one album. Sometimes many more than one album. Like thirty more than one album! Sometimes the exact same recording, sometimes a slightly different mix, and sometimes a completely different version.

Even the ultimate Larry geeks find it difficult to keep tabs on it all, so some time ago I had the idea of creating a website which would do just that. Detail all of Larry's songs, all of the different versions, and which albums they all appear on. Quite a task given we're talking about well over a hundred albums, so I never really did anything about my idea. It didn't help either that I have basically zero experience in web design or anything related to it.

Anyway, when Charles Norman recently told me that he wanted to re-issue Street Level and Bootleg, and we figured that simply copying the previous Bootleg CD release would not cut it sonically - it was a vinyl transfer with little clean up - I and another phan spent some time trying to identify the best versions of the Bootleg tracks which exist.

That exercise re-ignited the idea for my website, and, having decided that I watch more TV than I should, I actually did something about it. It's very early days yet, but after getting the basic information for Upon This Rock in place, I decided to publish. That was a few days ago.

Since then I've added basic details for Only Visiting This Planet, an album landing page (still work in progress) and a list of all the songs. Actually I took the list from another website, and don't think it's quite all of the songs. But it will be.

Oh, and I added this blog page. Apparently Google likes sites with blogs and ranks them higher in search lists. And maybe someone else is interested in what I'm trying to do here.