Ok so since I made my big ol announcement that I am hereby getting off my ass, some time has passed and a surprising number of people have asked howzitgoin and when. I am amazed that so many people have asked and I am glad about that. It’s easy to forget someone might give a shit sometimes.
So I am taking this time to update anybody who gives a rat’s ass, and as a way to put off tracking vocals for the new Next President thing. Yes, I said it, you read it.
I have never been one to want to go back in time to any creative projects. Mostly, I blow off the past in such a thorough manner that I rarely even own a recording of any band prior to whatever I am doing at this particular moment. Hell, probably the best band I was ever involved with – El Diablo – we never recorded and I dont think I even have a practice tape or anything.
Not sure if this is some kind of artistic insecurity thing, a strong drive to always make progress, or maybe I just blacked out.
So anyway, about what I have been up to – I am still plugging away at my handful of songs which turned into a pile of rough ideas I was going to kick around with other musicians, which then evolved into the bright idea to complete this as my own album type thing, which lead me to the idea that I need to put together a bunch of good friends and class A musicians to do this right. How is THAT for a run-on sentence?
Anywhoooo… while mucking around in my own creative filthy juices, a situation has come up regarding Next President – a band I fronted in the late 80s which was quite an experiment in improvisation (that means I made shit up as I went along much of the time, listened to the recordings of live shows the next day or so, and sorted out what worked and what didn’t. Some fuckin song writer, huh). It seems we all happen to have access to recording facilities, and we are conveniently located far enough away from each other to preclude any attempts to kill each other. I am not kidding, this has happened.
So my own projects are on hold while I trip balls down memory lane for a bit. I don’t think the intention is to re-record anything we already did, even though it was recorded on an 8 channel thing in some basement, but we are re-doing the old stuff just to work the bugs out of our new-fangled internet based method of collaboration before venturing into new shit. (downloading updated guitar tracks from Kevin even as I type this) Passing tracks around, recording our bits, passing them on, passing them back… almost a hippy jam and/or hip hop kind of method, really. Should be interesting to see how this goes since we were never really about thinking things through – Next President was usually more like the result of leaping off bridges with a rose in your teeth, pants around your ankles, a little blood in your alcohol system while test driving new ways of altering your brain chemistry, groping your friend’s girlfriend’s mom, and occasionally trying to pass it off as college rock.
I had mentioned in the last blog about starting up an official Nick.. music myspace thing. I guess some work-in-progress Next President crap might be in order. Stay de-tuned.
I gotta go sing now.
