Friday we finally had another full band practice after nearly a month of not having one. Over the last few months its been an up and down ride for me with good ole T3. I was poised to let it go last year before everything happened, but when it all did I decided to just keep at it to help get me through it all. We played a few shows and gained some new friends and fans and even wrote some more really fantastical music. Then sort of off and on it seemed to be a struggle to keep myself motivated to keep it up. Maybe one week it was just apathy, maybe another it was me being concerned about what everyone else was thinking about, I dunno. But after we all got together this past time, it reminded me why I've stuck with it these four years now. Its still the unifying project that I created, along with the help of my friends, and built up from nothing and made it grow and become something big and awesome. I don't know to what extent it will ever get to or if we'll undoubtedly not go much further than we already have, but the point is that I enjoy it and its been my support/dream builder/expressive machine ever since it was created in April 2007.
We're about knee deep into having 8 songs about completed for our 2nd full length album and I couldn't be happier about it. There are so many different things going into this one in terms of style, content, sound, and songwriting than the original album. Your Music Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad was an experiment or rather the result of one. Most of the songs were written right up front or on the spot from jam sessions and written by various different people over the course of a year. The guitar parts were written by 3 or technically 4 different people. That and it was a first come first serve sort of basis as the first load of songs we had we ran with. Ken was the last song we wrote for the album and it was "finished" only a few weeks before we recorded it. I like to think of that album as a sort of fantasy world full of crazy things going on all at the same time. Just a close your eyes moment and listen to it all and escape for awhile. Nothing makes sense and nothing is serious. There are few gripes about things that are covered in parody but its mostly a very nonsensical bunch of songs about goofy things. Sure there are very serious things I wrote about that were stuck in the middle of it all, but you can't really tell that just by listening nor what you're listening for. Its something I really enjoy doing with these songs. They're fun bouncy and goofy, and I also get to express myself through them in both happy and not so happy.
This new album is doing that only to a further extent. Rather than dive into a crazy fantasy world, this time around its diving into the real world only through a crazy persons eyes. Normal everyday situations with extreme results as I like to say, but most if not all of them are things I've experienced to a certain extent. The one thing I'm mildly concerned about however, is how much of my expression of my own little life's moments are leaking into these songs. I know there is quite a bit in most of them but I don't know how obvious they are in there. The test of it all has come back quite positive on one song as its completely masked in there but I wonder about the rest of them, especially the songs that were written after November, but who knows. They're still fun and they're still enjoyable. Also this time around is the first real batch of songs other than the two or three we wrote in the last two years, that were written as a full band with permanent members. Every song was either formed from a jam session with everyone present or mostly everyone, or somebody brought something they were working on and played in practice. There is clearly a different sound this time around, possibly heavier, possibly more rocking but all fun still. Its still a goofy ride and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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