mdlbear | Countdown to ConChord (Reply)

My Toastmaster gig at ConChord is now a mere three weeks away. And now that I have reasonably solid timings on QV and Wheelin', I can actually plan out my set list -- as long as I don't write anything new in the mean time. The probability of getting QV on a single is getting lower, but it's still non-zero.

Wednesday was fun. Colleen's friend Bev had to leave early, just after Joyce and Jordan arrived, but we managed to squeeze in her verse of QV, which she hadn't heard. Got the hoped-for reaction: shocked recognition, surprise, and laughter, in that order. Made of win.

Paper Wings [mp3] and Wheelin' [mp3] are coming together pretty well; the latter is especially not bad for having been written just this Monday. We also tried out Quiet Victories with all the extra verses (to date) and some audience participation on the ending. I'm still pretty much winging it there -- that and the intro need work -- but it is going to be flat flaming fantastic.

Aside to cflute and tibicina: ~~You'll find the rest of here~~ Millennium's Dawn has a trainwreck in the middle but it's good enough to practice against; the ending is solid. QV is fairly solid except for a couple of timing glitches and cutting the ending way short. ~~Let me know in comments when it's safe for me to take the link down.~~Thanks This really ought to be on tres-gique.net under password protection, but I've been lazy.

If I'm going to record Wednesdays on a regular basis for more than just scratch tracks, I'm probably going to need separate mics for the performers to get a reasonable mix with the drum.