Lost Audio: “Dignity”

Nice pic, huh?  I’m such a poser.

Hi there, I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this page.  Seeing as how my last post was about my Christmas single, I’d say I’ve been positively lazy about it.  Oh well, there really hasn’t been all that much to report.  I’ve been on a bit of a break from music.  My band, The Cosmic Joke, is killer…but there are 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 of us, and it’s a bit of a daunting task to get us all in the same room for a rehearsal, much less a gig.  So, I’ve just been kinda working on other things.  Lots of writing happening, and not the kind you’d expect from me.  More on that a little further down the line.

I do have a new album in the works…kinda.  Tom and I have tracked a few new tunes at his studio since January, but with no real focus or agenda on having a new album or calling it a Slack reunion or anything like that.  It’s just been nice to make music together again with no strings attached.  Maybe it’ll turn into something.  Maybe it won’t.  But there are many, many tunes floating around in my head.  I imagine they’ll find their way into a collection someday, sooner or later.

Sorta’s been playing a bit more lately, which is surprisingly cool.  I guess I just didn’t expect it to happen.  Anytime we get together, I remember how much I love those guys and those songs.  It’s very different now.  And yet there’s a comfy familiarity there that never really went away.

You may notice there are a few new things on the calendar. Despite my semi-retirement from gigging, and the mind-numbing beatdown of the promotional machine that I despise, I am coming out of the shell for a gig at the All Good Cafe with my lifelong, dearest childhood friend Sean Russell.  Sean and I were best mates growing up, but then he moved away, we didn’t see each other for twenty years, then we randomly ran into each other, and now we’re friends again.  We sometimes play in a Cars tribute band together, just for shits n’ giggles.  But at the All Good, we’re going to do a song swap and tell stupid stories about each other and just be buddies, because WHY NOT??

So, I leave you now with an old song I heard randomly the other day.  I wrote and recorded it in a single afternoon back in 2007, at Junius Studios, for a one-off project called Telegram, spearheaded by my old buddy Lindsay Graham.  He called and asked me if I could write a quick song on the fly, come over, and record it immediately, with no time for second thoughts.  Seemed like a kooky idea, so I wrote this song, “Dignity”, in all of five minutes.  I drove over there, recorded the song in less than hour, played everything myself, and haven’t thought of it since.  It’s never been played live, and it clocks in at a whopping one minute.  But it kinda rocks.  

I’ll try to update this more often, if anyone’s into that sort of thing.

Thank you for listening.  And reading…?

CH 4/22/11