Absent the Band...

Haven't touched my bass since that show closed. Don't miss it much; haven't seen any band mates, either. All too strange...mostly these days I play acoustic guitar in a church group, and cantor. I have been playing a 2019 Guild D-40 that I bought new online almost by accident; it's the best acoustic that I've ever played...except ( Read more... )

It's a show...Salt Lake Community College, the Grand Theater ("Backstage"). We've done 11 shows, three more...this post is just to see if I can put a picture here. Apparently so....

The band that I've been in for twenty years (it's tight) has written stuff over the years. Lead guitarist, a Professor of Medicine, is a really energetic guy and wrote ( Read more... )

Midpoint of the show tonight, on the downhill. People seem to like it. Cast has a lot of UofU theater students, seems like. Band is tight; backstage is interesting.

Mary

Just this side of somewhere

Someone told me some things

In words so very clear to me

That did not much for mystery

Time itself will change me

Life will rearrange me

So I will ( Read more... )

Noooo...it's no sort of obscenity. It is, apparently, one of the final steps in the production of a musical. Right before you start final, intensive rehearsals you do some sort of last check. Of some sort.

What sort, I suppose I find out tomorrow. On the schedule: Equipment load in, sound check and sitzprobe, with a meal tucked in where appropriate ( Read more... )

So it's on the schedule, the Grand Theatre has Perry's opus playing for five weeks, Feb 8th through Mar 2nd, Th-F-Sa with some Saturday matinees. Twenty or so performances, who knows. Theoretically I know most of the music; playing it correctly is another realm entirely.  I still have the libretto from when it was workshopped but a lot of reworking ( Read more... )

So the lead guitarist in the band wrote a musical, using 18 songs band members have written over the years. The U theater  department "workshopped" it, which is a run-through of songs and dialogue with the cast reading off music stands. This was at the Alliance Theater and attendees apparently liked it. The band was the pit band, minus our front ( Read more... )

Where would that be? It's a vector pointing to a direction that we can't conceive of, that nonetheless rules our entire existence.

So I read an article that had a speculation courtesy of some cosmologist or another. The postulate is that we, and everything in our purvey, everywhere, is just a hologram. Like, the universe and everything it.

What ( Read more... )

People have given that amoral moron a lot of money, pretty much for nothing except the permission to spew his brand of vile idiocy far and wide. Being born and raised in Texas, I have known very well for the longest time that the South is racist, underneath the folksy bullpucky, y'all need to understand that they don't think the South lost the ( Read more... )

So now I'm wondering what if anything is Freudian about the letters that I chose to capitalize. That is like a number, a great number, of things...it's all about what you read into it, any idea is. Perception, relativity and however that all works. It all depends.

So there isn't much dad-band stuff going. Our recovering(?) alcoholic front man wants ( Read more... )

Somebody, I think a columnist, wrote that one has to find the empty places in oneself to do what my sister calls "the work", i.e. figuring oneself out in basic ways. The theory was that the places where you think you know what's up, the spaces of your ordinary life, those aren't the places to look. You wander into those areas in your brain where ( Read more... )