Tales of the Treadmill
Tales of the Treadmill
I've Done Nothing
Monday, March 10, 2008
Well, shit. I have done pretty much nothing productive since our rehearsal. Let’s see. Had an interview with Otis at the State Paper and our old friend Kevin Oliver at the Free Times. Hopefully we’ll get some good press for this St. Pat’s show. We need it. I think I said some stupid shit, but hopefully they will edit out the stupidity. I have a bad feeling that not one person is going to show up for this show. Too much drinking during the 5 Pts stuff. I have no faith in anyone being conscious that night. We’re all going to go to the symphony that night at 7p to hear Heidi and the SC Phil play- so maybe that will keep me sober til the show. It’ll be cool going from the symphony straight to the stage to rock. I’d like to go see a few friends that are playing in Five Points during the day, but I usually build up too much rage walking through the crowds to last long there. I have a serious fear and loathing of large crowds. Agoraphobia x a million. I don’t like owning up to the fact that I’m just a spec, although I’m well aware of the fact. I’m supposed to meet Steve Varholy for an interview on top of Upstairs Audio at some point, so maybe that will get my ass down there.
The guitar lust did in fact reach a fever pitch, and when faced with such a dilemma, I did what I usually do which is to make a rash decision and spend a bunch of fucking money to satisfy the urge. It’s kind of a Viking thing, I think. Or, like a King Henry I locked in a room with five roasted turkeys. Quite possible that I have the wrong King here, but... So, I bought a freaking guitar- here she is. Say hello.
Oh shit. The silver/black one is only $3,000- what a bargain.
I mean shit!
Okay, let’s see- what’s up with Treadmill. Patrick has started putting up the website. Looks good. Hopefully that will be up and out of our hair this week, by the time we hit the stage. I hope so.
I have some set lists for the acoustic show and the rock show in september. You wouldn’t believe what we go through to create these set lists. I mean, there is color coding, and discussion and.. oh jesus. It’s completely out of control. And this is the list after we’ve already weeded out a shitload of stinkers. This is the one for the Acoustic show in September - or , it’s trying to be at least. Don’t tell Tony or Heidi, but I take these lists, and then present a final list that has little to do with what we’ve all decided. I’m hoping that they don’t look back at their choices.
Once this St. Pat’s show is over, we’ll jump right into learning all this stuff. My wife thinks that we should make the Trustus show into a story of some sort- like, have the songs and the spoken word weave into an overall narrative. She says that she always has ideas like this, and then two months later I’ll say to her- “I have this awesome idea. We’re going to weave the songs and spoken word for the Trustus show into an overall narrative!” Then she’s supposed to say, “What a great idea honey! You are such a genius!” I forget the last idea I stole from her, it had something to do with the contribution levels. But isn’t this what wives are for? Anyway, I’ve written it here, so if we do it- you’ll all know that it was her idea. Unless I accidentally delete this and take all the credit for myself, which I’ve just made myself a note to remember to do.
I had a goal of practicing the set list at least once through per day- and I have not done it at all. I’ve been playing a ton, but not the set. I’ve decided that we MUST do a Queen encore for the rock show in September- so all I’ve been doing is playing the songs that I’d like to do. Freddy is a tough mother to contend with vocally - but I think I can pull it off. We once did a cover of Under Pressure with me as David Bowie and Bryan Wade (Steel Guano, Jebel) as Freddy Mercury. Now Bryan is someone who totally could pull that shit off. What a voice. (See what Bryan’s up to at http://bryanwade.com/) Anyway, when I look at the list of songs for the september shows, it’s pretty daunting. Yes, we have six months, but for us- six months really translates into only a handful of practices. And we must go beyond for these shows. I worry, therefore I am.
The new song is languishing in a pit. I need to get my shit together and throw it a rope.
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