Yesterday I learned, or re-learned, a valuable lesson.
Which is: do not turn up to a rehearsal with musicians playing with you for free and proceed to play the same two songs for an hour and a half. Particularly when one of them only really needed the intro clearing up a bit.
No matter how much you like your own material, hearing it over and over again and steadily growing more sick
of the sound of a melody of even the sound of your own voice is worse when you put that to the collective.
That said, the other recent practices have been so enjoyable it’s hardly felt like work at all, and the new songs coming together for the album are brilliant. What’s been profoundly shocking is how much of a great bass player I didn’t realise Adam Lewis was. I mean I knew he was good, but he’s even better really.