The sun is never up when I rise from the sofa in the morning but on this one it's been up for hours. The regulars know from the blog history, this never happens and there will usually be something posted much earlier.
There's no illness or nothing more than usual but recording went way late again last night ... and it was glorious. There's the recording part and that's grand but there's also the after-recording glow which goes for some while. Well ... sure fuckin' did that, didn't we ('we' as in journalistic 'me').
This may seem like it's some old fogey's last gasp ... and it is ... but ... "The Sanctuary Song" is easily the best song I've ever written and it's also played the best. Learning music is much more than learning the notes and that's not to get gratuitously Zen-ish about it because it's everything at once. The pure proof of that goes like this: there's not a drug on the planet any musician will stop to take once he or she starts playing.
There's always some regret toward I should have done this or that and things would have started popping much sooner but another part of music is you know things happen when they must. Really your only job is getting there on-time. So I can waste regret on why didn't I write this thirty years ago but the only important thing is I do it now.
My last big musical saga of this nature was for "Anthem of the Dead" and that was intently political regarding war and was instantly alienating for some for that reason. The lead guitar work for that was elaborate and heavily-memorized which is a large part of why I don't do that now. It's not that I can't but rather there's a sterility which comes from memorization.
"The Sanctuary Song" is also political insofar as 'the fear is everywhere' is about the Trumpazoids because most of them are not stupid, they're simply terrified. They show lots of bravado but it's fake and you see the proof when you see them running over and over to the gun store. People who are not afraid don't buy guns, we have no reason.
I don't have to convince you the Sanctuary is real because you know it already and many don't think they deserve it because they're such worthless fleabag sinners but that's crap ... but it's not crap for anyone who believes it's true.
This is specifically not a religious conversion. You can bring whatever religion you like and no-one will give you any shit about it. No-one gives you shit about anything in Sanctuary except if you're an asshole ... but ... you would never have come in the first place if you were an asshole.
There's some temptation to look at the news but there's nothin' in it and you know that's true as well. For all the hysteria about this or that, there's hardly any news at all. Maybe our favorite flatulent fucktards, Clinton and Trump, still talk about 'schlonging' each other as they live out their nastiest, dirtiest fantasies but who has time for their stupid shit. Generally speaking, I would like to get through the day without being mortified and embarrassed by the sorry quality of such people and the offensively banal poses they strike as wannabe leaders.
So we go to the Sanctuary. You need love in your heart to come and those types of people haven't felt that in years. It's not that they can't come here, they won't. Well, that's a heartbreaker, isn't it (larfs).
There's no illness or nothing more than usual but recording went way late again last night ... and it was glorious. There's the recording part and that's grand but there's also the after-recording glow which goes for some while. Well ... sure fuckin' did that, didn't we ('we' as in journalistic 'me').
This may seem like it's some old fogey's last gasp ... and it is ... but ... "The Sanctuary Song" is easily the best song I've ever written and it's also played the best. Learning music is much more than learning the notes and that's not to get gratuitously Zen-ish about it because it's everything at once. The pure proof of that goes like this: there's not a drug on the planet any musician will stop to take once he or she starts playing.
There's always some regret toward I should have done this or that and things would have started popping much sooner but another part of music is you know things happen when they must. Really your only job is getting there on-time. So I can waste regret on why didn't I write this thirty years ago but the only important thing is I do it now.
My last big musical saga of this nature was for "Anthem of the Dead" and that was intently political regarding war and was instantly alienating for some for that reason. The lead guitar work for that was elaborate and heavily-memorized which is a large part of why I don't do that now. It's not that I can't but rather there's a sterility which comes from memorization.
"The Sanctuary Song" is also political insofar as 'the fear is everywhere' is about the Trumpazoids because most of them are not stupid, they're simply terrified. They show lots of bravado but it's fake and you see the proof when you see them running over and over to the gun store. People who are not afraid don't buy guns, we have no reason.
I don't have to convince you the Sanctuary is real because you know it already and many don't think they deserve it because they're such worthless fleabag sinners but that's crap ... but it's not crap for anyone who believes it's true.
This is specifically not a religious conversion. You can bring whatever religion you like and no-one will give you any shit about it. No-one gives you shit about anything in Sanctuary except if you're an asshole ... but ... you would never have come in the first place if you were an asshole.
There's some temptation to look at the news but there's nothin' in it and you know that's true as well. For all the hysteria about this or that, there's hardly any news at all. Maybe our favorite flatulent fucktards, Clinton and Trump, still talk about 'schlonging' each other as they live out their nastiest, dirtiest fantasies but who has time for their stupid shit. Generally speaking, I would like to get through the day without being mortified and embarrassed by the sorry quality of such people and the offensively banal poses they strike as wannabe leaders.
So we go to the Sanctuary. You need love in your heart to come and those types of people haven't felt that in years. It's not that they can't come here, they won't. Well, that's a heartbreaker, isn't it (larfs).
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