I’ve Been Bad. Sorry.

Sick and swamped

It's been exactly a month (same day last month, 28 days/4 weeks ago) since my last entry. The reasons I haven't posted are because I've been sick and I've been swamped. The Twestival gig was the week after my last post, and dangit if I didn't get sick again that Monday, sucking up all my energy that I had planned to use to get prepared for the gig.

The week after was the CH gig. I didn't really spend much effort getting ready for that because most of the songs were the same as the previous show, albeit with Ant's usual changed-up arrangements. There were a couple of new songs that I should have worked on a bit more, but oh well.

Blue Funk confirmed a gig at Coffee Groundz for March 21, and our good friends The Distracted are opening up for us. Some of you may know, Tony was the drummer in Blue Funk before Phil. We are spending the next few weekends getting ready for that show.

One unfortunate thing that has been happening with Blue Funk is that we still haven't gotten our groove back. What I mean by that is before Jeff left in October 2007, and with John afterwards, all agreed we were a pretty tight little band. But, John sorta leaving and us not getting together regularly during the latter half of 2008, we are not as good as we once were. Before we knew it, we had shows to get ready for, and the only way to do that was to rehearse, something we've never done before. We have always just jammed and grew as a band that way. Rehearsing can be very draining, because instead of just having fun and playing, you're trying to get the arrangements of the songs just right. Some in the band are feeling it and struggling with it. But, we plan to get back to the jamming so we can be like we were before, and not have to rehearse for any upcoming shows at that point.

I am happy to say that I have been able to spend some time practicing on my own technique and skills. Like I mentioned in the post about Irie Time, there are certain skills that I don't have that I want, and I've been taking the time to start to develop those. I feel that if I can develop these skills, I can be much more marketable to other bands, and then I can decide if I want to play with them, not the other way around.

Posted 2009 03 03 at 10:10 AM

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