..so we played Jovita's outside stage the other day, it was good .. I remember really liking a select group of songs, one was Other Side of the Road, mentioned in the last blog, I always like what G brings to it and just really like the song.. we didn't play Cadillac Seville ..another one that I really enjoyed was Mean Old Frisco by Arthur Crudup, very nice song ..glad to see some friends out too, it was fun .. and on and on ..
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
yes
ok, well evidently I'm somewhat better at doing gigs, playing and writing and such than I am at maintaining a blog, it seems convention isn't working for me because truly I find it boring and redundant, SO I've decided to screw convention and get working on this blog in a way that I can continue to be productive (ahem) and stay interested.. so, and therefore, I've decided just to write whatever the hell I feel like writing about, and really I think that was the original intention behind creating a blog for the band in the first place, to let out some of the weird creative musings and things that are happening behind the scenes which we find interesting, and perhaps it'd be fun to share that stuff .. read on if you like
beginning: three nights ago practice, Let My Love Open the Door by one of our faves, we've done this song before, for whatever reason I always remember playing it at the Hideout near Congress and 7th Street at an early duo gig, around 2004 or 5, anyway we used to do it more or less like the recording, same key which my voice hardly touches in the bridge and basically the same tempo which is a little trying to maintain on acoustics, so the new deal is a lower key and we've given up on trying to be the rhythm section with acoustic guitars and let it breathe a little.. so, then we looked at several originals that we'd like to introduce, two of which are Gabriel's contributions, Taking My Heart Out and Mommy Dear, the latter of which we did a spoken word version of as part of Channel Austin's EXSE Spoken Word 2011, and the other original is one of my contributions which we've played live here and there called Other Side of the Road which is literally the "other side" of a previous song that I'd written for TB called Cadillac Seville which we've performed extensively for years, and which our current bass player, Jason Rasberry, loves to play so it's bound to be played along side it's newer counterpart.. so these four songs we plan to perform this coming Saturday at Amy Zamarripa's open mic at Native Nom Nom ..glad to work on new material..
so there, I guess that's the first installment of the newfangled loose fitting blog, much more comfortable, think I can manage ..I hope
m
beginning: three nights ago practice, Let My Love Open the Door by one of our faves, we've done this song before, for whatever reason I always remember playing it at the Hideout near Congress and 7th Street at an early duo gig, around 2004 or 5, anyway we used to do it more or less like the recording, same key which my voice hardly touches in the bridge and basically the same tempo which is a little trying to maintain on acoustics, so the new deal is a lower key and we've given up on trying to be the rhythm section with acoustic guitars and let it breathe a little.. so, then we looked at several originals that we'd like to introduce, two of which are Gabriel's contributions, Taking My Heart Out and Mommy Dear, the latter of which we did a spoken word version of as part of Channel Austin's EXSE Spoken Word 2011, and the other original is one of my contributions which we've played live here and there called Other Side of the Road which is literally the "other side" of a previous song that I'd written for TB called Cadillac Seville which we've performed extensively for years, and which our current bass player, Jason Rasberry, loves to play so it's bound to be played along side it's newer counterpart.. so these four songs we plan to perform this coming Saturday at Amy Zamarripa's open mic at Native Nom Nom ..glad to work on new material..
so there, I guess that's the first installment of the newfangled loose fitting blog, much more comfortable, think I can manage ..I hope
m
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