Ah... magic rules.
Ran thru an impromptu hour and a half non-stop warm-up to start prepping for playing some shows... and kinda impressed myself...
Earlier that morning, I did something I've never seen done before...which was also impressive...just didn't include any depression or impressions...ah, but it was a slight progression...or a transgression... whatever...it might end up being a good suggestion to any artists who just aren't "feeling" like doing the same routine...
There's this Tool album I hadn't heard for a while, Salival...[www.google.com] bought it a long time ago at Border's in Emeryville when it still existed... so I ended up using the entire album as sort of a backing track...Merkaba was the intermission..however, I played with a differently tuned guitar and made the album into an almost completely personal experience...simply myself reacting to this album - not just "some sort of psychedelic experience..." but it sounded almost like that Jeff Buckley cover of Genesis' Back in NYC... with an album being consolidated into a Warlock song...and it sounded so beautiful to me... glad I didn't record it at the same time...
Then, there was a break in the storm outside...
Then, I ran thru 20 songs [must admit though, did 3 Radiohead songs, an Elliot Smith song, and some covers...so more like 13 completely original songs and 5 reinterpretations from a living american's perspective...] with my acoustic plugged into my bass amp running thru a guitar cab and me singing through my smaller amp...
the songs I played were:
half-ass improv [tuning and 30second warmup]
box [aka pandoras box]
needle in the hay [cover 1]
costume
invisibility
wizard [aka driveway]
obelisks
wind drag [aka ixchel... fyi: who would name a song ixchel...]
20 [aka skeletal roads]
(switched to some patriot songs)
yosemite
motorboat
puppy girl
(back to warlock)
reckoner [cover 2]
a2d security (shorter version)
videotape [cover 3]
not what i needed [all i need cover....4]
breathe/welcome to the machine/little wing [5,6,7]
halflife
Recorded it to listen for any areas of improvement...
[did this on 4-1-14]
Anyways, yesterday, watched two of the best films ever made...
Enter The Dragon
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0070034%2F&ei=V2Y9U7-9I4KGyQGQ6oDoBA&usg=AFQjCNFYt5Ovk-YMxbPIY3gxKFkmHfgJog&sig2=F9IAJ-1NDrfdPVLHB20w4A&bvm=bv.63934634,d.aWc
and
The Man Who Knew Too Little
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0120483%2F&ei=OmY9U4PUK6SbygGCp4CQDQ&usg=AFQjCNFDFGxKKmxcz2JVn0Kr6l47z2UnwQ&sig2=wWBhmuDznsZ-UuOMUF4PmQ&bvm=bv.63934634,d.aWc
that's it for now...
I will run thru another 20 completely different songs...and then 20 more completely different songs...etc. when I feel the urge again...but this time I'm going to use an electric...the next time..a different electric... etc.
The point is to get as eclectic as possible... like oil... or Oakland... where I am...but with a stabilized sort of organization lingering above... like clouds...
BTW, "I've looked at clouds from both sides now"
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