blogging, dead blogs, rock bands

i don't think this is a dead blog. i just haven't been that motivated to blog. it's funny i like to blog. i like to share with friends and communicate.

you know what i have been obsessing over?
getting a band going again.
i have not been in a 'band' band for 16 years...!!!
my last band was an acoustic trio...great music...very 'off the wall'
then for about 12 years i was a music minister for some churches....
that had a 'band' setting, but it was not a 'band' band.
(i was more like a 'song leader.)

then i just got 'tired of it all' and started working as a folk soloist.
stay with me.....

part of me wants to be in a high energy very simple and thrashy 'rock band' that does great/fun covers like: you can't judge a book by it's cover by bo-diddley and louie louie (yes i said louie louie) and 'keep knocking but you can't come in' by little richard

but but with that 'punk, let's go' edge

the ramones meet bo-diddley
the sonics meet little richard
thee headcoats meet an early Elvis....

i've been obsessing a bit and it has been difficult to get something going....

i've always got my home recordings i guess :)

Church Notes

a lot of times, in church, they pass out an outline for the morning's sermon....to help people follow along...maybe write in some 'key words' here and there. they can be very helpful.

for years i have taken my own notes...used to be in a journal with lined paper...an occassional cartoon or doodle here or there.

over the last year, off and on, as my kids sit next to me and interrupt me and climb on my lap, and beg to be entertained one way or another, my notes have changed....the message i'm listening for hasn't changed (at least i don't think so), but my notes have changed.

sometimes i feel like i don't know how to do anything else.