November 13, 2021
Hatchford Hotel
- Production meeting with Sabrina over coffee
- Purchased some costumes/chicken masks
Elephants of Scotland
- Recorded piano & vocal demo of “Tempest of Tarragon”
Elephants of Scotland
November 4, 2021
Elephants of Scotland
- Writing/refining on “Tempest of Tarragon -or- Elephants of Scotland (The Song)” continues
Hatchford Hotel
- Generating instrumental versions of each tune to share with cast
November 2, 2021
Elephants of Scotland
- Wrote full lyrics for “Tempest of Tarragon”
- Maybe it’s a different title. Maybe it’s not right for EoS. TBD.
November 1, 2021
Hatchford Hotel
- Re-record some rewritten lyrics for demos
- In prep for Wednesday night table read
- Printing up a shit-ton of scripts
Elephants of Scotland
- New Tempest of Tarragon lyric taking shape
- Started writing in the car yesterday. Not sure if it’s EoS or what.
- Might even be renamed “Elephants of Scotland (The Song)”
- Practice with John and Bob
October 28, 2021
Hatchford Hotel
- Review/edit of demos in prep for table read next week
Elephants of Scotland
- “D Drone” Writing and sharing files with the band
October 23, 2021
Hatchford Hotel
- Meeting with Sabrina for scheduling rehearsals between 11/3/21 and 1/9/22
Elephants of Scotland (or ???)
- Zoomed with Greg about EoS’ jams
- Put our heads together around a narrative concept
- We had started riffing on this months ago
- Riffed in earnest today
- Is it another play? Is it a concept album?
October 22, 2021
Elephants of Scotland
- First in-person jam though only with Bob
- John stayed home with a bruised foot but Zoomed in
- Two solid and fruitful ideas begging to be turned into songs.
October 18, 2021
Elephants of Scotland
- Zoom band “practice.”
- I had a few bits and pieces and chord progressions to share and walked through them with John and Bob.
- In-person jam happening Friday.