Happy (Late) New Years
Welp, I’ve been out vacationing in Jamaica for a coupla weeks and I never need to hear Bob Marley again. Seriously though, it was a great trip and got to watch friends get married in front of the Caribbean sea. As you can see to the right, the days of sun and drink had an effect.
Things (Jones) are pretty much dead. I’m not too interested in the band performance deal right now and quite frankly I’m all out of fresh ideas for it. I realize we never played out that much, but I felt stale doing the same 20-30 songs over and over. We never got to practice properly for gigs and learn or relearn new or way-old material. Maybe we’ll reunite at some point. Who knows. Everyone is quite busy with other endeavors. I thought about creating alternate or fill-in lineups but was really too lazy to go thru the re-learning curve again with new folks.
I’m working on a new, over-the-internet project with one Chris Cannon of Gentlemen Losers fame. The idea is to make an album together, writing bits and pieces together, starting one part, finishing others and transferring files back and forth until we agree they are done. Should be a lot of fun.
Hope to see everyone out at the various clubs and dance halls next month! Be sure to go to Amanda/Bocatinta.com‘s last Thursday ‘Listening To’ show on Feb. 1st. Amanda is gonna concentrate on booking her stable of bands and promoting them. She’s done a great job with us for sure!
Cannon emailed me a couple of days ago announcing that while “2006 was a motherfucker: some good people died, some screaming babies were born, some fools fell in love, while others had their hearts crushed like rotted fruit, new friendships were made, while old friends drifted apart…oh, but most importantly: Gentlemen Losers recorded yet another CD!!”