Beautiful Day
Gorgeous morning in Cincinnati. A bit chilly, but you can sense that Spring is banging down the door of the Ohio Valley winter. We've had very very little snow. Too bad. I love snow... everyone else in town hates it. It covers our yards and houses and streets and cars and makes us all the same little Eskimos huddled in our igloos. Everything is still and everyone is the same - no farking status symbol is left uncovered. The lack of reverberating sound during a good snowfall is... well, it gives you same feeling of being in the deep woods and not hearing car engines. Startling at first, then very very real.
Anyway, it's sunny. I spent a few days on the west coast in LA and then went to Florida and dipped my feet in the February gulf waters. Pretty cool feeling. I don't travel much and it was nice to hit both coasts... I need to get off this continent someday. When it's right.
We're back to work on our new collection of songs after a period of working on a couple of songs for the Cincinnati Reds. We need to finish a few of them to submit for the MidPoint Music Festival, which we're pumped about. Always a great time. We're scheduled to perform at Great American Ball Park in May, other than that it's studio studio studio. Thanks to everyone who made our last few shows a big success... Southgate House was a BLAST - nice new sound system and the best monitor mix in town.
I had a dream last night that I was working on a song and the guitar sounded awful and it was way too fast and we were out of time - we had to release the record. It sucked. Part of the challenge of recording is accepting nothing less than your absolute best. And sometimes it isn't possible. Records aren't released, they escape, eh?
Read this morning that the passage of time is a mistake by our nervous system. Time doesn't pass, it "is" and we pass through it. Now my brain hurts.
Just checked out our stats on Rhapsody, the online music store. "Wedding Day" was downloaded 26 times recently. I wonder if folks are looking for good songs for their wedding and stumbling upon that one. Heh heh... sorry about that. I love iTunes - a lot... but the most fascinating thing is seeing what else people are buying who buy our songs. Carbon Leaf? Zapp & Roger? Idlewild? Who are these bands? Well, I'm sure they're asking the same question about us!
Love ya mean it. We'll keep you posted on all the doings in Mimeville.
Dave
Anyway, it's sunny. I spent a few days on the west coast in LA and then went to Florida and dipped my feet in the February gulf waters. Pretty cool feeling. I don't travel much and it was nice to hit both coasts... I need to get off this continent someday. When it's right.
We're back to work on our new collection of songs after a period of working on a couple of songs for the Cincinnati Reds. We need to finish a few of them to submit for the MidPoint Music Festival, which we're pumped about. Always a great time. We're scheduled to perform at Great American Ball Park in May, other than that it's studio studio studio. Thanks to everyone who made our last few shows a big success... Southgate House was a BLAST - nice new sound system and the best monitor mix in town.
I had a dream last night that I was working on a song and the guitar sounded awful and it was way too fast and we were out of time - we had to release the record. It sucked. Part of the challenge of recording is accepting nothing less than your absolute best. And sometimes it isn't possible. Records aren't released, they escape, eh?
Read this morning that the passage of time is a mistake by our nervous system. Time doesn't pass, it "is" and we pass through it. Now my brain hurts.
Just checked out our stats on Rhapsody, the online music store. "Wedding Day" was downloaded 26 times recently. I wonder if folks are looking for good songs for their wedding and stumbling upon that one. Heh heh... sorry about that. I love iTunes - a lot... but the most fascinating thing is seeing what else people are buying who buy our songs. Carbon Leaf? Zapp & Roger? Idlewild? Who are these bands? Well, I'm sure they're asking the same question about us!
Love ya mean it. We'll keep you posted on all the doings in Mimeville.
Dave
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