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5.26.2007 Playing the Roxy on 7/7/07 I forgot to announce the upcoming show! We're playing the Roxy on Saturday, July 7. We're slotted for 8pm alongside bands I'm not familiar with, but Sue (the promoter) is always good about bringing together the right people.It's an all ages show, which is always cool. Not many all ages events in L.A. because the liquor license is risky. But more than that, these places make their money at the bar; so to the venue, underage folks are worth only the price of admissions and a few cokes. I guess it is a business, still I have wishful thinking about the music scene in L.A. So to say again, underage shows are very cool. 5.25.2007 The next two songs... We're currently recording the next two songs. Tonight we track drum & bass. This is actually the first time we're tracking the two together, though it is common practice to do so.See for the past four songs, Don would always rework his bass parts after we had "frozen" the arrangement, which would frustrate Shane to no end, since he played according to what we had rehearsed. But Don, being too much a renaissance man to do so would inevitably settle on something quite different. If you were to hear the vast ideas Don has laid down on tape before mixing down the one we eventually release, you would be.. surprised. Samba, anyone? The two songs in production are "Far From Home" and "Together Apart". The second song is a rework of an old song that was tracked for "Acoustic Sessions", but was never really fleshed out. It's the first song that really features a repeating guitar riff to lead the song, and it's always useful to have some good old 80s rock tunes laying around. The second tune is new. It's possibly closest to what our band's "sound" would be. Beatles/Queen with some interesting writing. Ken had written some chord progressions as an exercise in voice leading, then he and I sat down and wrote a first draft. The band then promptly tore it apart and put it back together. In a different time signature (for the first half) and with an incredible bridge/transformation that happens about a minute and a half into the song. I'm rather inspired by this experience. Anyways, more details later. We should be done with it by show time on July 7. At the Roxy. You'll hear the songs live, if not on our website beforehand. 5.23.2007 Surviving pictures from the old website Here are some surviving pictures from our old website ..so the blog doesn't look so empty.
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