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March 25, 2023

March 25, 2023 Adam Rabin Elephants of Scotland, Hatchford Hotel

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Experimenting with slight variation on the mastering of HTDN.
Too much bass? Not enough bass?

Hatchford Hotel

Wrote Act I, Scene 5
Some lyric changes to “This Is Me Now”
Slight change in the script form what we had planned brought on a small re-think of Scene 6. We got this.

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March 21, 2023

March 21, 2023 Adam Rabin Elephants of Scotland, Hatchford Hotel, Hot Neon Magic

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Woke up to receive Greg’s verses for Chester for the opening number.
I had a pass at them. He had a pass at my pass. All before my second cup of coffee.
Nailed it.
I also marked up the story summary and script with an idea to lose a cumbersome plot point.
- We’ll discuss it later.

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Got Lyle’s backing vocals for “How To Do Nothing” last night
Sounds awesome
Did a first mix/master of the song. Holy crap, it’s good.
Meanwhile, Greg was working on the words for “As Whale Song.”

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Five-person band practice

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March 18, 2023

March 18, 2023 Adam Rabin Adam Rabin, Hatchford Hotel, Hot Neon Magic

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Drum practice
More drum practice

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Cleaned up and re-sequenced “The Ones You Chose” album over the last two days
- Was originally recorded and released as I went so it needed some unification.

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Spent last 10 days writing and rewriting the opening number “Here, Right Here”
Had an epic Zoom session with Greg to iron out Chester’s voice and personality so we knew exactly how to write for him

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March 9, 2023

March 9, 2023 Adam Rabin Hatchford Hotel

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Wrote up to page 9
Wrote music for Fletcher’s new song section

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March 8, 2023

March 8, 2023March 9, 2023 Adam Rabin Hatchford Hotel

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Started writing the new script!
Well, I created the document and copied over the title page and dramatis personae and the first page of the old script.

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March 7, 2023

March 7, 2023 Adam Rabin Hatchford Hotel

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Long Zoom call with Greg
Ironed out the last of the Character Bible
Time to start writing the actual script. Woo!

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March 1, 2023

March 1, 2023March 2, 2023 Adam Rabin Elephants of Scotland, Hatchford Hotel

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Good long video chat with Greg
We really nailed down Chester and Fletcher’s characters.

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Bob came by just to discuss the bass parts for “Tempest of Tarragon”
It’s a highly detailed song so simple tabs or charts weren’t cutting it.

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February 23, 2023

February 23, 2023February 25, 2023 Adam Rabin Hatchford Hotel

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Woke up, had some coffee, brainstorming picked right back up.
I zoomed in on a little bit of character background that Greg jotted down and expanded on it.
Turns out, I tapped into the psychological engine of the whole story – why the leads are the way they are and the significance of the titular hotel
Whoa.
Sent a full-page brain dump of this revelation to Greg.
He replied, “i gasped. this is so good. yesyesyes”

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