Where autumns shadows idly muse

September 15th

I've lost count of what number rehearsal thing we're onto now - 7 or 8 - at trusty old First Avenue. Recent rehearsals have taken a shape of playing the set of the 11 of so songs we've got down pretty well, an hour or so of working on newer things and then repeating the set.

That 11 song set in full:

You're Gonna Miss Me

1-2-5

Pretty Big Mouth

I'm Gonna Make You Mine

I Ain't No Miracle Worker

Action Woman

Little Black Egg

I'm Not Like Everybody Else

Primitive

Hey Joe

I Can Only Give You Everything

All Day and All night is taking on a role of beery encore. The Bad Seeds' (not the Nick Cave one) All Night Long was given it's first run out with the proper chord changes in the middle bit. First runs out for My Flash On You (tho' our footing is trying to gain a-hold somewhere between Love's and Thee Sixpence's respective versions), Can't Explain, Tristan's new song When the Morning Comes and something I've cobbled together from a few chords thrown out at the last one called Stick or Twist.

To fill in the final few tired moments there was a fun blast through Territorial Pissings as well as Gloria. We've played that before and it sounded pretty lame, but didn't sound too bad this time! Might have something to do with Pete's later observation that it felt like we clicked as a band somewhere through the second run through of the set. These things take time, as someone once said about something totally unrelated, perhaps.

I was somewhat discombobulated early in the rehearsal by mucking about with that delay rack thing. No tech-head me.

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The Nightcrawlers' Little Black Egg

September

Back at First Avenue to see September in with our 6th rehearsal. 

It was a couple of runs through the 11 song set. All Day and All of the Night has shapen up and All Night Long is just about there, too. The only thing with that one is the chord changes during the instrumental break need pinning down.

Dirty Water received the briefest of runs out - maybe we'll persist with that. 

Pete and me started kicking round with a few chords. Dean came up with an interesting beat, Tristan added some wah-wah licks and a fuzz-tone riff and ad-libbed some words on top. Our first genuine tune of our own took some shape! I've got some words and structural ideas for next time and am pretty confident that it'll be formed a week Saturday when we rehearse next. Provisional title of "Stick or Twist".

I agreed with Dean that we played best about a half hour in once we'd warmed up!

From a tech point of view, I took along my Zoom RFX 1000 delay rack. I've lost the adapter for it. Alas, Tristan's adapter didn't fit, so that's on hold til the adapter from ebay arrives. Continuing the tech-y vibe, Tristan brought some kit along to record the session. Like me, he has a Zoom MRS-4 track recorder. He managed to record 40 tracks in all with better results than I managed as he had some other kit there. Will find out for next time what that was!

As promised, here's a song from the session

I Can Only Give You Everything