Yesterday I engineered my last ever live show. I tell people this and they can’t believe it. They refuse to believe it… they think I’ll be back.

Ain’t gonna happen.

It was the last show I’ll ever engineer for Q. Today my replacement took over. His name is Alain and he’s pretty sharp. About eight times as sharp as me, give or take a sharp or two. So he’s doing it from now on and I’m spending these last few days showing him the ropes, although he’s shown me a rope or two as well. Q is in good hands with this guy.

But it felt pretty strange watching him engineer the show today. I kept wanting to leap in and push buttons. I managed to restrain myself. Our musical guest today was Murray Mclaughlin. I felt a pang when one of our Associate Producers introduced Murray to Alain instead of me, and they discussed how the show was going to go. It was only right… it’s Alain doing the show now, not me.

I’m just going to have to get used to it.

Another week of showing Alain around, then three days of drama work, and on November the second it’s all over. I’m out of the Union. No longer a recording engineer. Moving to the dark side. Becoming a big, bad manager.

Yep…

…it’s gonna take some getting used to.