*please read the "Disclaimer(s) at the very top before proceeding*
First, let me wish one and all a Happy New Year...
...of course, after every party, there comes the denouement...the long, protracted sigh. This is my sigh. I declared verbally, and digitally, that 2009 was our worst year as a band (The Responsibles) for gigs. 2010 was only slightly better, but marred by numerous instances of exponential flabbiness in regard to pushing forward. Let me be the first to say that I was as involved as anyone...all circumstances really beyond our control. I had hoped that we could have at least recorded our 3rd full-length CD, but no dice, as they say. We barely practiced, we barely wrote, and we barely played. Mind you, we are all, erm..seasoned gentlemen with busy lives, and gigs (for us anyway) are few and far between. If a marital analogy may be used, and I believe it can, this was our mid-life crisis, our "time away" from each other--the CDs were grown, out of the house, and it was just the four of us rambling around in the basement, wondering if/ could/ should we have another recording. I certainly did/ do. It would be nice to make this release our "London Calling"...a culmination of eight years of work and partnership, which I do not want to see go to waste. We have outlasted many other, perhaps initially, more exciting, musical marriages, and still pull it together quite well. I just want this to work out...stop me before I get weepy...I couldn't imagine myself with anyone else...I'm too old to go looking at band notices in music shops...
...still, who knows? This could be our year, for once. We don't ask for much, and usually get something similar in return...no point in being bitter...better to abide by our four guiding principles...
1. Write Songs
2. Record Them
3. Play Them Live
4. Don't Suck!
..how's that for a pre-nuptial agreement, huh...?
