On The Other Coast
San Diego, CA
So, this will be the last week on the road for a while, and a good chance to come back to solid footing.
I personally have this love/hate thing about travel. On the one hand, I love seeing and exploring new places, hearing new music and bands (and used to be different radio, too). Different food, and cities themselves are exciting – fun to be thrown into the unusual and different every once in a while.
And then there’s the other side: That part where I’m an introvert in an extrovert’s world. More to the point, where I miss my home, my friends, my family, and actually making music.
And I guess that takes us to the topic of a new lyric just written, Take Me Home. One of the first songs that I ever wrote back in the mid-80s had the same title. However, the theme of this song is now very different, as is the music.
The current version of the song came from one of my late-night jamming sessions, which I video record when things are going well and the ideas are flowing. In this particular case I also had a melody in my head, and worked out the chord progression from the melody.
The lyric came later. I somehow had the phrase “take me home” suggested to me from the music. However at this point in life “take me home” means something very different than it did back when I wrote that first song. Now it’s a lot about really discovering what home is, mixed with my own experiences of being on the road – a lot.
We’re going to try to put this one down for basic tracking over the next week, and maybe – just maybe – it’ll be one of those that we can demo on the sound cloud site before the end of the month.
On that topic, we did get basic tracking done for four songs over the weekend – Alice’s Dream, Pleased to Meet You, No One’s Coming, and All There Is to Say. After a little bit of listening and reflection, all of them seem to have some good clay to play with, but there will be a lot more work to do before we’re to share them with you.
We only put out music that we would want to listen to. These songs are on the way, but they’re not up to that standard yet!
Don’t forget – You can listen to our first album on Spotify here.