Rehearsal

Me and the boys (sans Joey) had a great rehearsal last night, working on our set for our upcoming gig in March (our first proper Long Island appearance).

Also on the agenda we learned two new songs, one a cover of Don Dixon's "Praying Mantis" (which came out sounding great) and the other a new one of mine (a complete departure from the typical BL fare). In fact, this is the song I dreamed a few weeks ago.

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New Material

Last Sunday was the first rehearsal of the new year and the emphasis was on learning new material. I was very gratified that the guys seemed to really like the songs I presented. From the bunch I showed them they picked three to learn. Song titles are; "Tearing You Down", "Intersection", "Radios Appear" and "Set You Free (Let you Go)".

The songs that we had already been working on are really starting to come together too. "Crying Town" and "Almost In Tears".

In addition we have been working on bringing "Dead Ringer" from the Yellow album into our repetoire.

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Happy New Year to all!

Highlight from IPO New York

The Vibe Lounge in Rockville Centre, NY

We have been looking for an appropriate venue on Long Island for months. Way back in June we did a showcase/audition for what should have been the perfect summer gig, which boasted many name artists in an outdoor setting in front of thousands. Needless to say that fizzled out (Click here to read the details).

In the meantime The Vibe Lounge (a little club in my hometown of Rockville Centre) that has been home to many of Long Island's new and upcoming bands (not to mention many from Rockville Centre who became famous like Taking Back Sunday, etc...) was interested in having us perform there. I was making the arrangement and was discussing it with my family when my kids said (and I quote), "You can't play there! My friends go there! I'd be so embarrassed!" and so on...

Needless to say I relented and in the intervening months still had not found a suitable venue on Long Island to play.

In the meantime we've been getting some airplay from a Long Island radio station and the DJ who has been playing us has set up some local shows and through our manager we were booked for one (March 12th, to be exact) and guess where it is? You guessed it! The Vibe Lounge in Rockville Centre.

This time we're taking the gig.

Somnambulistic Songwriting

Woke up at 5 AM today from a dream in which Jack Black was a troublesome member of the band. We were practicing a new song and finally I threatened to throw him out if he didn't shape up. He complained loudly but when we started playing again we were awesome! I likened the guitar solos to a gun slinger in a showdown with Wah Wah blazing!

When I woke up I realized that the song we were playing was not known to me and immediately ran to my studio and recorded the bones of it before it could slip away.

I went back to bed and attempted to go back to sleep but more and more of the song kept coming back to me so I again went downstairs and started writing down the lyrics and as I saw them materialize on paper I began fine tuning it and even wrote a bridge that hadn't been there.

In the end I wound up writing about 85% of a finished song (Called "I'm Still Here") just from a dream! The song echoes Weezer, The Pixies (because of quiet verses that then explode into raucous chorus's) and The Foo Fighters (sort of).

I've only dreamt one other song in my life, about 15 years ago. That song wound up on my CD called "Doug Khazzam TODAY!" and was called "Prying Eyes" however that song changed drastically from the dream to the finished product, this one is pretty much intact.

Weird and Wonderful, huh?