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
Hatchford Hotel
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 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.
March 21, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- 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.
Elephants of Scotland
- 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.”
Hot Neon Magic
- Five-person band practice
March 18, 2023
Hot Neon Magic
- Drum practice
- More drum practice
Adam Rabin
- 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.
Hatchford Hotel
- 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