Skip to main content

Day Fifteen (Year Two)

So, I know it's been a few days.  I took my birthday off, and then Saturday night I was out late enough at a wedding that, while I thought about writing, and felt guilty not doing so, I just ran out of energy.  Needless to say, it feels good to be back.

Much to discuss... B. and I have gotten some writing done in the last few days, although not as much as either of us would have liked.  That being said, we did make some definite progress on one song in particular, and I had a bit of an epiphany regarding another of our unfinished ideas.  It was one that has been around for almost 5 years, so that was pretty awesome.

Also, the rumors and worries about us not having enough songs have been gleefully debunked.  At this point, it's looking like we may well have enough songs for a double album, although I suspect that it won't come to that.  Tomorrow is set up to be a big giant writing day, as it's the only weekday that B. has off, so that should be awesome.  We will likely spend most of the day hiding out in my Mom's basement trying to get a lot of stuff sorted out.

Other important news: I stopped at my hometown's version of heaven... The Exclusive Company (say it with me!).  I remain fully convinced that it's the best music store in the world.  There's nothing like it in the WDM, that's for sure.  Picked up 3 Fountains of Wayne CDs, and the new Foo Fighters documentary, so that's awesome.  They had a lot of Wilco on vinyl, too, so I may well have to go back and snag at least some of that before I run away at the end of the week.

That's all for now, but hopefully there's big news to report tomorrow after the writing session!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Day Two Hundred Ninety Three (Year Four)

Big day today, for a few reasons... First off, it was a good night in the studio.  As opposed to the recent sessions that have had a singular focus (either theory-related, or acoustic/set list related), tonight had a little bit of both things in it.  When I hit the studio tonight, I fully expected to pick up the electric and work out a bit more theory studying, much like things have gone for the last week or so.  Knowing that, I somehow ended up with the acoustic in my hands, working through a little bit of Brandi Carlile.  More specifically, two songs of hers that I have always loved, "Wasted," and "Fall Apart Again," but until tonight, never taken the time to sit down and learn.  I have a songbook with everything from the first three records, and it took me until tonight to sit down and take a look at working through some of these things. In a related note, I really feel like the last year has been so very good for my confidence, musically.  There are some p

Day One Hundred Eleven (Year Eight)

Okay, so Dave's voice was kinda shot last night and the show was still epic.  Here's what they played: Run All My Life Learn to Fly The Pretender The Sky Is a Neighborhood Rope ( with solo's ) Sunday Rain My Hero These Days Walk Under My Wheels / Jump / Another One Bites the Dust / Blitzkrieg Bop ( w/ band introductions ) Big Me Congregation Breakout Times Like These This Is a Call Under Pressure ( Queen  cover) Monkey Wrench Breakdown ( Tom Petty  cover) Best of You Dirty Water Let There Be Rock ( AC/DC  cover) Everlong   And here is a little bit of "Big Me," just for fun:    

Day Three Hundred Forty (Year Six)

It's done.  Well, okay, so it's 99.5% done, but that's close enough for me. The stereo and the turntable got set up this morning, as I figured they would, and the two bags of randomness (picks, my slide, tuners, etc) and the few small piles of notebooks got dealt with tonight.  I even managed to get the iMac set up, if not fired up. And yet, the studio remains only slightly unfinished.  Somewhere in either the house or the garage, there must be a box or a bag that has a couple of studio-related items tucked into it, because there are at least two things I can't find.  As fate would have it, they're important things, too.  And something tells me that they're all in one place.  I'm missing: 1.  My looping pedal 2.  The power cable for my Marshall 3.  The foot switch for the Marshall They're all things that would have been in the same general area in the old studio, but given how much of the house we've gotten set up already, it really surpris