audition time
last night, neil calls me telling me he's got a last minute audition for little shop of horrors! he'd be auditioning for the role of audrey II (the plant), which he is absolutely perfect for. big booming voice, over-the-top silliness factor but still threatening.
(neil is also known as thermos x. pimpington, plus he is my partner in crime -- more appropriately, i'm his straight man -- in larry banilow)
because of the last minute nature of the audition -- "it's tomorrow at 6:45" -- he had no time to prepare anything, and so he thought of singing "crazy little child" by alice cooper, which had been covered by banilow. we already knew it, right?
well, i had to re-remember it.
it didn't take long, but he had to get an mp3 emailed over. i commit everything to memory and, i suppose in order to commit the next show/ series of songs to memory, i can easily lose them again once the need to know them is gone. i sort of soft-memorize them, as it were, like songs written on a chalkboard that's committed to this job and erased at the end of the day.
i'm always juggling multiple chalkboards, too.
the audition went great -- neil has a great presence, so i had no doubt anyway. it was a fun diversion to throw into the week. hopefully he'll find out positively in the next couple of days.
slated for the weekend:
• friday night i'm sitting in on synth with gato malo at the abbey lounge. gato's got a friday night pub stage residency this august, and so i'll pop down there, see who else is in the band and put my own spin on everything. we'll see what happens. i usually strike a kind of eno pose, running the output of wolf's guitar amp through synths and processing it into some strange curtain that hangs behind the band.
• sunday afternoon rehearsal for [munk], with whom i'm going to be playing at bill's bar on august 25th. that's going to be a blast. really great musicians pulled together for the band, and i get to further my whole eno-esque wanderings, triggering loops and putting up more curtains.
• otherwise some mixing for the forthcoming onlyone single, following my red sox and of course hanging with lexi
(neil is also known as thermos x. pimpington, plus he is my partner in crime -- more appropriately, i'm his straight man -- in larry banilow)
because of the last minute nature of the audition -- "it's tomorrow at 6:45" -- he had no time to prepare anything, and so he thought of singing "crazy little child" by alice cooper, which had been covered by banilow. we already knew it, right?
well, i had to re-remember it.
it didn't take long, but he had to get an mp3 emailed over. i commit everything to memory and, i suppose in order to commit the next show/ series of songs to memory, i can easily lose them again once the need to know them is gone. i sort of soft-memorize them, as it were, like songs written on a chalkboard that's committed to this job and erased at the end of the day.
i'm always juggling multiple chalkboards, too.
the audition went great -- neil has a great presence, so i had no doubt anyway. it was a fun diversion to throw into the week. hopefully he'll find out positively in the next couple of days.
slated for the weekend:
• friday night i'm sitting in on synth with gato malo at the abbey lounge. gato's got a friday night pub stage residency this august, and so i'll pop down there, see who else is in the band and put my own spin on everything. we'll see what happens. i usually strike a kind of eno pose, running the output of wolf's guitar amp through synths and processing it into some strange curtain that hangs behind the band.
• sunday afternoon rehearsal for [munk], with whom i'm going to be playing at bill's bar on august 25th. that's going to be a blast. really great musicians pulled together for the band, and i get to further my whole eno-esque wanderings, triggering loops and putting up more curtains.
• otherwise some mixing for the forthcoming onlyone single, following my red sox and of course hanging with lexi
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