Didn't get off to as quick of a start as I would have liked. Got a text that I wouldn't be doing the show with 3RG on Saturday, but I still hope to maybe do some shows with them again in the future, we'll see how that goes. As far as I know, they did great, so that's always a good thing. Played as part of the host band at Little Hoolies on Thursday night, and that was a lot of fun. It's always a blast to jam there with different people and (sometimes) have to play songs you don't really know on the spot. I always joke saying that it's like being thrown to the wolves, but I really like that challenge. Got to play with former Force Three drummer Mike as well, and had a good conversation with him as well about the demise of that band. We were also complimented as to how tight we were/are as a rhythm section. Who knows, maybe we'll play together again someday. We'll see what the future holds...
This week as far as performing, I will be at Little Hoolies on Thursday for the jam night, and Dirk Diggler is supposed to be playing a headlining show there on Friday as well. I should have final confirmation on that either today or tomorrow. If anything changes I'll post it here as well as on my other sites. There is also a rumor of another show with Matt Mansfield and Southern Drawl for April, but I don't have specifics just yet.
The rest of the week I am planning on working on the group of songs I've been working on since around September. Most of them at least have a rough guitar part recorded with the basic arrangement of each song, and my goal for this week is to get drums, bass, and "proper" rhythm guitar parts done so that I can see what each song needs as far as overdubs, and oh yeah, work on lyrics for them. I have a few sets of lyrics that I think might work with some of the songs, but I like to have all the instrumental parts of songs more or less finalized before I work on the lyrics/vocals. Of course, if I get an idea that just "demands" to get finished first, I'll go with it. I've been writing songs for a long enough time to know that if you get an idea, it is a good idea to just run with it!
I also will be spending some time on the project I'm collaborating on with Mike and Rich from Inkognito. I have to spend some time working through some of the lyrics that have been written to see how the songs are connecting together. Pretty sure I made mention of this before, but the project that we're working on is a "concept album" of sorts, and I have been pretty good about keeping the songs in some sort of narrative, but it's getting to the point where I really need to start connecting the dots and seeing what kind of "holes" there are in the story so that we know what we need to make this be as good as it could be.
If I have time, (hahaha!) I will also be doing some work on a few other projects as well, and then working on them on a more regular basis leading up to summer. Once summer hits, I hope to be spending a lot of time not only playing but getting more new music done and letting people hear what I come up with. Looking forward to doing a ton of stuff this year!
That is all...TB