An Eventful Week
This was quite the eventful week for me.
The week started out on a wonderful note, with my good friend Holly trusting me with lyrics that she had written about an old friend who had passed on awhile back. Needless to say I was truly honored. Normally, I struggle with the music side – but this was different. I had a basic melody and chord progression within a couple of hours, and a pretty much finished product the next day. This weekend I got to play it for her, and she seemed to really like it. I’ve had some pretty cool moments playing music, but this experience has to be right up at the top. I’m hoping that by the time I record it that it will be something that is worthy of her late friend and the close-knit group of friends that the song was intended for.
Right before I left for the weekend, I received a new toy in the mail that should help me share some things with you all. I bought a Tascam DP-004 PocketStudio. What that means is that I’ll be able to record scratch demos of my songs here at home in very little time. This means I can share them with the musicians I’d like to play on the album, and has the side benefit of making it easy to give you all access to early versions of stuff. I’m hoping to have a couple of things up by the end of the week.
Finally, I mentioned before that I got to play Holly’s song for her this weekend. I got to do that because I attended the Beltane festival at Wolvenwold in Elk Creek, MO. It was a wonderful festival, and I got a chance to connect with some old friends and meet a whole lot of new ones. I was particularly excited to meet all the fine folks from Lodge Yggdrasill, down from Minnesota to entertain us with their wonderful songs and stories – they are a truly great group of folks, and I can’t wait to see them again. The entertainment this weekend was stellar as always, but unfortunately one of our good friends, Andy Shaffer, fell ill and was unable to attend. The lovely ladies of Wolvenwold, Beltana and Holly, asked me to help fill in, as Andy was part of the scheduled entertainment for Saturday. So, rather unexpectedly, 4 of my tunes made their live debuts on Saturday night. After spending a large chunk of Saturday afternoon practicing, I played an 8 song set Saturday night. I was nervous as hell, and made a couple of mistakes, but overall I was pretty happy with it. The crowd was wonderful, and truly made me feel like they appreciated my performance. I can’t tell you all how much that means to me…you made me feel like I’m on the right path musically, and I thank you.
Until next time…
Brian
