$etbacktoBasic$
We started this project to have fun.
Within months, we went from a group of guys noodling around in the studio to sounding like a band, and we were really excited to start playing shows. It was fun to practice a couple times a week, and jam out with whatever guitarist wanted to sit in (sometimes 3 at a time). This worked because I was playing keys, and the guitars added that extra “edge”. Since then I’ve settled in to playing guitar almost exclusively, and building the most absurd collection of FX pedals that I can.
Having to relearn the songs on a different instrument was a setback. Personnel changes were a setback. Loss of the production hard drive after a year and a half of work was a setback.
We’ve been grinding away for a long time, somewhere along the way it became a lot less fun than it started out to be.
My brother came to recently, and we set up another guitar amp for him to jam with us, and it was a blast!, (even though he kept bugging me about why we haven’t played any shows or released anything). His friendly badgering got me to thinking about the answers I have been giving when asked that question…
The bottom line is that there are many reasons (or should I say excuses) and they seem valid, but there’s no excuse for another year going by without a release.
No more setbacks, we’re going to get a tight fun setlist, and start playing shows.
Right now, we have several songs that almost done with tracking, and we will get those out the door, and start playing out! Critics and gremlins be damned!
