A Random Haiku

So, I didn't manage to make yesterday's post -- I got distracted, so instead I had to finish up what I'd been working on this morning.

Since it's moderately incomprehensible unless you've been reading this blog very closely, so there will be (perhaps totally unnecessary) notes. No [references] because they would interrupt the flow, as well as being too obvious.

Molly Electric blue. The Only possible color. Skip the drywall jokes.

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I will resist the temptation to back-date this.

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Songs for Saturday: Band Practice

We took advantage of the fact that N and her kids are up at this end of the household for Thanksgiving to get in some practice. Mostly this consisted of songs we are working on harmonies for; in addition the idea is to go down to Everett tomorrow and sing for Colleen in her hotel hospital room. Fortunately there's a lot of overlap. I'm not entirely sure of the order, but we worked on:

• "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers. (If you remember, this was the subject of last week's Songs for Saturday.)
• "The October Country" by me and N. It's about, well... growing up and growing older, I suppose.
• Ship of Stone by Don Simpson. It's loosely based on Riding the Torch by Norman Spinrad.
• "Lord of the Buffalo" by Dave Carter. (here, on YouTube)
• "Gentle Arms of Eden", also by Dave Carter.

There's a story about "Gentle Arms of Eden". Back in 2009, at Consonance, I was in two different groups, Tres Gique and Tempered Glass, which had consecutive concerts at Consonance. We also had a problem -- we wanted to move a song out of the second set so that Tres Gique's bass player wouldn't have to come back on stage during the second concert for that one song. N thought for a little while and pulled up a set of lyrics and chords from some website or other, and asked if I thought I could play guitar on it. I looked at it -- it's in G -- and said yes. I spent the next 20 minutes running through it with N before going on stage for the Tres Gique concert; we sent Tres Gique's drummer down to the lobby to print it out.

We got the printed lead sheet about half a minute before going on stage for the Tempered Glass set, and pretty much nailed it.

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