Saturday
Jun042005
a nice, lazy Saturday
Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 06:04PM
Well, today has been very nice. I got back from a show with Andrew Peterson in Georgia at about 4 am, took a half an hour or so to get to sleep and then got up about noon. My friend Stephen Gause and his wife Kara just moved into a house two doors down from us, so Alison, Ella and I walked over and hung out over there for a while. Stephen was taking the moving truck back right as we got there, and it was fun to see their excitement of their first house and all of that. All the houses in our neighborhood have the exact same floor plan, so it's kind of weird, and cool, to see how different and alike they are.
Mike Taquino, the drummer for the Normals, is driving through Nashville tonigh on his way back to Alabama, where he lives now, so in a few minutes, Alison, Ella, Cason and I will have dinner with him. Haven't seem him in quite a while, so it will be fun. He's such a great, cool guy and he's a cop now, so he has awesome stories. He's on the SWAT team down there and that just cracks me up. He was our DRUMMER. Now he has guns and bullet-proof vests and all that jazz. He's so cool.
Last night's show was a lot of fun. It was just Andy P, Ben and I, and we played, all told, for about three hours. I did five songs by myself, three from Photographs, Mother India from STW and a new song called "New Beginning" that I've never played live before. It's always scary to play a tune for the first time, but I think it went really well, and got me excited about coming back to the recording, which is about a third done. Anyway, we got to meet some cool people at the show, had a great time talking there and back, and it was just great to play again. I haven't played a show out of Nashville in almost three months. That's the longest since I left college. I even wore two shoes, something I haven't done in a month. It was a pretty great night and a wonderful introduction to playing shows again. Thanks to all you who came and said hello and encouraged us to keep playing more songs!
Well, I should get going. I have some more stuff to share later, but I'm not sure when I'll have time to sit down and write it. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
P.S. Today is Andrew Peterson's birthday, so send him an e-mail and wish him a good one!
Mike Taquino, the drummer for the Normals, is driving through Nashville tonigh on his way back to Alabama, where he lives now, so in a few minutes, Alison, Ella, Cason and I will have dinner with him. Haven't seem him in quite a while, so it will be fun. He's such a great, cool guy and he's a cop now, so he has awesome stories. He's on the SWAT team down there and that just cracks me up. He was our DRUMMER. Now he has guns and bullet-proof vests and all that jazz. He's so cool.
Last night's show was a lot of fun. It was just Andy P, Ben and I, and we played, all told, for about three hours. I did five songs by myself, three from Photographs, Mother India from STW and a new song called "New Beginning" that I've never played live before. It's always scary to play a tune for the first time, but I think it went really well, and got me excited about coming back to the recording, which is about a third done. Anyway, we got to meet some cool people at the show, had a great time talking there and back, and it was just great to play again. I haven't played a show out of Nashville in almost three months. That's the longest since I left college. I even wore two shoes, something I haven't done in a month. It was a pretty great night and a wonderful introduction to playing shows again. Thanks to all you who came and said hello and encouraged us to keep playing more songs!
Well, I should get going. I have some more stuff to share later, but I'm not sure when I'll have time to sit down and write it. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
P.S. Today is Andrew Peterson's birthday, so send him an e-mail and wish him a good one!
Reader Comments (10)
The show was amazing. I was so very pleased that you played some songs,though I was a little upset you turned down both my requests for "Coming to life" and "Kankakee," it's all good though. Great music, some good laughs, and awesome worship at the end. I loved it!
You played Nashville and didn't let me know? I thought we were cool, man. :cry: ;)
Good to know that you're back to wearing two shoes, Andy.
Yeah, we suck. We didn't make it out to Conyers. Come back to Atlanta and play on the westside and we'll come see you!
I was one of the cool people he got to hang out with. Oh, and "New Beginning" was awesome...I really liked it.
I'm trying to work things out for 7/3. Hopefully that'll be able to happen.
You played Mother India by yourself?
Is there a recording of you doing Mother India? I'd love to hear it...
Glad you are walking, Andy Two Shoes.
Nevermind, I just found one...
Andy you rock.
No fair, Lee! Point us to it! ;)
It's on Ragamuffin...
Upload --> Upload Audio - Live Concerts --> Caedmon's Call 2004-7-21 @ San Fran
...what we need is a recording of this new song...
"You know you want to be a drummer
But he's got you working 9-5 at the PD
He says you gotta be more realistic
Don't you know that dreams are only dreams"