...Back to the business at hand. Winning the lottery!

As stated earlier, I am on hiatus from systems development until I have a few songs written and recorded. I started off today with 10 hours of work and a 2 hours (round trip) in traffic... I will spend the majority of the remainder of my 36th Birthday working out song ideas and recording some rough tracks before I forget them. Gotta make sure to apply some gloss to this set of songs as one will be released early in 2005 on a compilation CD and the rest might finally go onto an EP. Most will be new but I do have a stockpile of songs written since 1999 that might be reworkable... the music is still relevant but most of the lyrics were written on the spot for fun... not really meant for an audience...(gotta cut your recording engineer teeth on some raw material, why not your own...)

I want to present the label with a few songs to pick from for their compilation, saving the rest for the first CD. Should be fun. Since it is highly unlikely for a 36 year old "one man band" (for now) to get signed to a label (even a local indie one)... I also have to deal with the eventual start of a personal record label (basic LLC) and a plan to make the CD available without the immediate aid of a local club circuit tour. Challenges that can be overcome with proper planning and a little luck.

one step at a time. I love the fact that you are never too old to participate in the music scene. I love the possibilities now available to independent musicians via the web... it is now perfectly possible for someone to jump into the scene at the hobbyist level, it no longer needs to be a lifestyle choice...

It is something that I have not played on a local stage in 10 years but when the mrs. and I get our rare night out people still remember my fretboard antics. Now life experience has led me to a possible chance to go at it one more time... 6+ yrs heavy gigging, 25 years on the guitar, the last few years heavy into songwriting, recording and learning Bass/Drums/arranging and all the practice recording harmony lines will all help.

I'm psyched! THe time has never been better for my particular style of music. Punk is practically mainstream these days and given the hard road ahead for the audience I would be trying to reach... I think it will be recieved well locally... and this is a tough locale to make an impression on (alot of musicians in alot of bands, local recording studios, bars that only book original music... and local music here is good quality stuff... )

Since I have nothing better to look forward to until 2008 (a fluke powerball win would be nice)... may as well take a shot at it.