talked with the guys for over an hour. About where we see ourselves heading, musical direction, recording aspirations, and general housekeeping we had been putting off for a very long time. It felt good to know everyone's concerns were the same as mine.
We know we have something good but are fully aware of the upcoming challenges that await us. Travis' busy acting schedule, divvying up songwriting duties, handling starkly different songwriting and vocal styles, you name it. Our concern is how the world outside our friends and well-wishers are going to think.
We've seen strangers go nuts, offering us free dinners to their restaurants, signing autographs for a few people etc. but I think we've reached a point where we are ready to see what a larger scale opinion is and it makes us all very nervous because the doubt in ourselves is real.
The great thing is we all agreed that we are only getting better. each new song has elements of the band we want to become, coming into focus. Its going to happen. There are no dead ends in sight and that is the biggest thing I should remember and be happy about.
We did agree that we need to go through our material with a fine tooth comb and really make each song excellent. Dynamics, volume control, stage presence, arranging, everything was covered. Egos were stroked and then constructively criticized.
Group hug and now I am going to bed.
Show Saturday and then a BIG show the 27th at Emos. The shitty thing about high profile shows is you are more concerned than happy to have the opportunity. Nothing worth having is easy I guess. Cliche alert. but still true.
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