Don't think I'm getting softer - still plenty of offensive music in my rotation - but maybe hitting 36 and 3 kids is making me a bit more mellow.įruit Bats - Absolute Loser - this was one of those "why haven't I been listening to this band my whole life?" kind of things. And I suspect that we'll record a few songs for an EP at some point.Īll alt-folk / rock / Americana this year. 2017 should be a good year for us - we've got an awfully tight 60+ minute set and a handful of new originals in the works. We had a slowdown over the summer when Barba came along, but had a nice run of shows in Raleigh this fall.
My rock band American Titans got way better and played a handful of gigs in 2016.
My goals for 2017 are to record another ~8 or so decent songs with Thomas (and Catherine) so that we can "release" and "record" and to record a few of my own songs (sans children) that reflect what's knocking around in my head and my heart. We don't really have an official name for our "band" yet, but we've been calling ourselves Thumb Toe for a while now. Just Be Careful and Fast, Tough are actually pretty decent - I'm going to work up some new non-5-year-old-soccer lyrics so the Titans can perform the latter. Our songs definitely got better with time.
The friendly convo drifted into a discussion about time and how we use it, to which I said that when (not if!) I'm in his situation and have time, resources, etc., I plan to write and record a new crappy song every day - just to have the creative outlet and to have a hobby and a process to share with my kids.Īfter rethinking the conversation over a few days, I decided that waiting until I was retired to do this would be stupid - so I fired up GarageBand and started making crappy songs with Thomas: He was about to fly to St John USVI for a few weeks of vacation - he's had a very successful career and his kids are grown, so he has the time and resources for this type of trip. I saw a friend on the street in Durham this Fall and stopped to chat for a bit. Here's my favorite blog post of the year.
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