April 29, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Wrote end of scene 7 and all of scene 8 including a new love-at-first-sight song for Chester & Addison
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April 27, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Megan came over to help me test drive “All That I Want” and “Tree Fellin’ Gal”
- Writing melodies for theatrical sopranos is hard when you’re a baritone/bass prog rocker.
April 26, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Recorded a slap-dash demo of “Tree Fellin’ Gal” for Megan and Ian’s feedback
Elephants of Scotland
- Recorded congas for “Too Many Voices”
April 25, 2023
Neb Crabula
- Gave “All Day All Flavors” a remix (and piano extension) for possible inclusion on something … EoS, perhaps?
Elephants of Scotland
- Finally organized my thoughts and ideas on “Slow Effects” – perfect album closer / bookend of “How To Do Nothing”
April 23, 2023
Elephants of Scotland
- Spent a lot of time with the new ebow coming up with ideas for “Vanishing Twin”
- Also tweak the electric piano a bit with a backing synth
- Played the keys and ebow together for really out of this world stuff.
April 22, 2023
Studio
- Purchased my own ebow.
Hot Neon Magic
- First show! Went really well. Crowd went nuts per usual.
April 8, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Lots of writing.
- Just finished Act I, Scene 6 (minus a few verses here and there)
- Re-wrote “What Do I Want?” from Abortion: The Musical into “All That I Want” for Hatchford Hotel
Hot Neon Magic
- A few band practices. Starting to come together
- We’ve passed from “Oh, shit. This is never going to happen” to “I wish we had just a few more practices before our first show.”
March 25, 2023
Elephants of Scotland
- 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.