I'm counting this as 10...No...11 songs. Maybe 12? Also fare-thee-well Troy Horse
Woot!
Howdy Folks. It's been a time, I tell you. I've been helping some folks dear to me and it's occupied my attention somewhat.
As is the way with such things, the songs have continued to accumulate in the interim and I came back to find 11 guide tracks for SC9 are up there.
Depending on what happens with SC8, we might re-record alternate/replacement versions of a few unreleased tracks so does that mean we're ready to go?
Hmm.
Thus, depending on how you count and some other factors, we are:
In need of more songs!
Not in need of more songs!
Making songs anyway!
The Fall of Troy
We spent our last night at Troy Horse working on new songs.
Troy is closing, the times they are a changing. Love ya Chrisso.
Rehearsal studios are vital.
Here's why:
Some songwriting ideas never make it, thankfully they fail expertly and swiftly.
Some bad ideas need time to brew into their OMG-what-was-I-thinking-state.
Some songwriting ideas start bad and then ripen into Blue Cheese Stinky Awesomeness (BTW yuck).
Yes that's right, I am comparing songwriting to stinky cheese. You heard it here first.
But it's necessary to be prepared to Fail toward victory!
Rehearsal studios give you a place to take the song once you think you've got it right and try it out without the risk of being pelted with pretzels at a bar.
(That's the phase you get to IF it survives full electric rehearsal.)
Besides which, Theo likes to work on his drum action with a full kit :-)
Troy Horse has been our go-to place once a song is ready to come out of the test tube.
We'll miss the space that Chris created. The Headspace he created. We did some of our very best writing there. I mean re-writing.
Chris approved of us riding the Troy Horse one last time, working on brand new songs with the liberty to fail towards vicotry.
I mean Victory.
Here we are, once again, taking risks, one last time, at Troy Horse.
Giddy up.
