Well, I’ve got to admit, it’s really great to be in the studio again and we’re executing songs with unusual alacrity. Minus a couple of overdubs (mostly Heather vocals as she’s been sick), we’ve nailed eight songs in two days of recording
Sharif in the studio recording Heather’s new tune “Phantom”.
A beautiful day in Louisville, KY. There’s been a lot of chaos over the past couple of days – Heather touring with Dar Williams, getting our webcasts set up, having to replace my computer, having shows cancelled – all sorts of insanity.
First off, let me see if I can update you at all on what’s been going on in the world of ilyAIMY. I guess the biggest thing is the Dar Williams news. For those of you who DON’T know, Dar WIlliams is one of the bigger folk artists out there right now – sort of this generation’s Joan Baez, perhaps? I think that’s how she’s touted.
In any case, through a friend of a friend she’d heard of us (!) and when her percussionist contracted Lyme Disease she contacted us about perhaps borrowing Heather for a couple of weeks. That was last Wednesday. Thursday saw Heather racing up to New York City to do an audition – Friday morning we got the call formally asking Heather to accompany Dar Williams on the tour – and a week ago (Monday) she shipped out to Colorado. Since then she’s been playing a moderately intense tour schedule, doing the REAL thing with like “sound checks” and “merch chicks” and a “tour bus”. She’s going to be very spoiled when she gets back! In any case, from what I can glean, Heather’s fitting in well and Dar has told her she’s got a voice “like an angel”. She’s even been introducing her as “Heather Lloyd from the band ilyAIMY”, allowing her to pass out ilyAIMY merch – it really could be an amazing thing for us. Perhaps we’ll finally Know Someone!
Sigh. I’m a dreamer – a hopeful, hopeful dreamer. For those crazy people out there who are fearful that this spells doom for ilyAIMY, hush your pieholes puppies, Heather misses us! She might just not miss the Saturn.
At the moment Rowan and i are sitting at Sunergos Coffee in Louisville, KY. Last night we played the Hideaway Saloon, filled to the brim with Lovely humans dancing and swirling. I was finally introduced to a beer I like (which is a lie – i think it was a cider) and playing sweatily on the dimly lit stage, selling CDs, feeling Loved – and then going “home” to the familiar couched of Weber around the corner – it’s almost more like coming home than coming “home” is, really. That sentence probably displays a certain amount of fatigue on my part, doesn’t it?
In any case, the Webernaughts were sleepy themselves and we saw very little of them last night or this morning (Emily seemed something of a myth) but we got a smidgeon of social time before hitting the road again.
In any case, I’ve really got to work some more on my computer. My laptop’s hinges died in Philly so I had to buy a new machine, with all the angsts that go with transferring one’s Life from one grey box to another. Plus I’ll miss my stickers… sigh.
VLUU L200 / Samsung L200
I can’t believe Ash Dawod has moved to California. On the one hand, I’m sure hoping he’ll be back – on the other hand that would probably denote some level of failure and that’s NEVER good to wish on another. In any case, we went and watched him for his very last show in the state at Java Mammas and I got to play bass for him. I Love my job.
Cletus Kennelly had a fierce cold and knew from the SIX people or so in the audience that he wasn’t going to make any money, but was still willing to come and play my fearfully flopped SAW event at the Oneness School in Bethesda, MD. I had some spectacular performers, but the lineup mattered not, filling that empty church with the finery of greatness.
The Honest Mistakes performing at the Green Turtle in Towson, MD. Chris and Joylene have been long-term misery friends – and I’m not quite sure what I mean by that. Joylene I’ve known since college and Chris and I talk a lot, especially when things aren’t flying true – but more than almost anyone else I feel kind of hooked to the two of them through travaille. It’s not a bad thing at all and I’m debating deleting this entry since I don’t know how to make it sound like a GOOD thing – but they’re very Real World people, reminding me that this too shall pass and that we find good partners for ourselves and we do for other people as hard as we possibly can.
Hee! The first day back at work and entry was blocked by a beestie of massive proportions. All was fun and games till he flew at my head with clearly macabre intent.
It’s odd when your foot finds a friend among the drums at the House of Musical Traditions – we would’ve also been at home together amongst small reptiles, big reptiles and the occassional dinosaurs. We made birds nervous.
