On the "solo" music front, I've been trying to get the next batch of songs that I've been working on finished, but I have to say that lyrics have been a little hard to come by for these songs so far. Seems like every time I sit down to try to write something, I haven't found anything that fits these songs yet. The way I usually work though is once I start getting ideas, they come kind of fast, so I just am waiting for that initial spark to kick me in the rear and get the ball rolling. My composition stuff has been going a little better, I managed to finish up all 4 (!) songs that I was working on for my school band a couple weeks ago. I'm in the middle of the actual hard part, teaching the students how to play them! The first couple of weeks on that end are always frustrating, but I feel that things will start falling into place with them soon enough. It was a challenge this year to write the songs. I have 2 beginning bands at my school, both with weird instrumentations as well as both of them being mostly stone cold beginners. But like I mentioned before, all I usually need is for one thing to fall into place and then I'm off to the races, I actually wrote the last of the 4 songs in one sitting! That was a record for me! And even better yet, the song just may be the coolest one of the group! I've been trying to get back into the writing mode for the project with Mike and Rich, but I'm still a bit stuck with it, and I really haven't had the time to really sit down and work myself out of the lyrical and conceptual corner I put myself in just yet. This project may have to wait till summer so I can devote some serious time to it. I am determined to get it finished, so that maybe JUST MAYBE we can get together and actually do some recording with it…MAYBE… Knocked out a couple sets of lyrics for the second Conspiracy Inc. project… There are a couple other things that are in the works as well. A new project with my friend Bob, who drummed and sang in the last 'nito lineup and a batch of lyrics that my dear friend Deb wants me to work on as well… I think that for the most part covers everything that is going on at the moment, I'm going to try to use the down time from gigs to get some more work done here in the studio as well as spend time with friends and family as well…and try to kill the snake in my back yard..
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