Tales of the Treadmill
Tales of the Treadmill
Rehearsal for Acoustic Show
Monday, October 6, 2008
Drove down to Columbia to rehearse for the Asheville acoustic show. These are our only practices for that show, which bums me out. We’re doing like 6 new songs, and this was are only time to run through them. Two of them have freakishly hard parts in them. The end of Back Ashore, a new one for the record- is completely bizarre. I love it, but the pattern of time signature changes defies all logic. Yet somehow, when you listen to it, it sounds good. I love those little puzzles you can put in songs- no one will ever notice it, but it’s completely devious. And kind of difficult to play. I have to enter a trance to be able to do it right- because if I think about it for even a second, I screw up and get completely lost.
Heidi, as usual- didn’t practice at all and was playing all the songs for the first time at rehearsal. This really drives me insane, especially when it’s so difficult for us to schedule rehearsals and I have to drive to freaking Columbia to do them - and in the old days, there would have been flame throwers and agent orange and blood. But now- since none of this matters, I just bitch to Tony a little and try to bury my fury deep deep down and use it as feed for my yet undiscovered ulcers. I think it’s really lame though- just for the record.
It’s a bit scary to me to run through brand new songs, literally about 4 times, before playing them live. I try to roll with it, but it’s against my very nature. I pretty much hate the idea of it. But, fuck it. I’m going to practice my ass off between now and the show, so I will know my shit. Let the chips fall where they may.
We might do the Queen medley acoustically as an encore. It was insane to do Queen covers full rock, but to do it acoustically is suicide. I’m sure we will though. Who cares? I wanted to do Thank You as one of the covers too, but it sounded like shit so we scrapped it. We’re also on this total roll of covering songs that everyone knows you shouldn’t cover. We’re going to do Hey Jude, which is probably at the top of that list. I think it’ll be cool though. It’ll either be cool or be a horrible way to end the evening. We’ll see.
Scott Bilby came out to take some photos for an upcoming article of some sort in Stir Magazine. It’s by the same peeps who do undefined. Both of these mags are so slick and fancy, it just blows my mind that Columbia has them at all. Here are some of the photos.
We’ve always been so photogenic.
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