practice

just got home from shirley practice and shirley dinner, from the good ole mrs rehearsal studio and the ever wonderful tomato kick, respectively.

the practice went well, i guess you can say we were fine-tuning the setlist. specifically, figuring out how best to play the songs we normally don't play live, so that we can pull off the entire themesongs album. an 11 song set. i wasn't timing it, but i think we did that thing in around 30 minutes. i can't wait for the next jam, couple more tweaks to the arrangements should do the trick.

anyway, i was thinking about the songs and why we play the songs we play live, and why we don't play the other songs live, and i guess some songs are funner than others, so that factors into the equation.. but i think the main point is that i used to want our live set to sound like this or that band live, and some of the shirley songs allow for them exciting rakenrol live performances, but most of the songs we write sound nothing like exciting rakenrol. i mean we can rock out all we want, but there are some things you have to finesse, some things you have to just papapa and doodoodoo away.

it's a coming to terms with the identity crisis that creeps up on you when you straddle genres. listening to the album (IT'S GONNA COME OUT SOON PROMISE ) and the results of the practice earlier tonight at mrs makes me all kinds of excited and hopeful, that maybe we found this nice balance somewhere. gotta make kevin drew proud.

PS. dj dolla bill ($$$) had dinner with the shirley gang and he asked about our combined weight! the attorney whips out his celphone to perform the necessary calculations, and after the grueling task of estimating the weight of those not present at the dinner, atty gaddi drops a bomb: we're 1,500 lbs, give or take 50lbs. hahaha. (to ean: nag-google ako, a metric ton is 1000kg, not 1000lbs, so we aren't a ton yet haha di ko alam kung matutuwa ako o malulungkot. love you!)

-owel