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Progress in a different direction

rm — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:25:54 +0000

The past few weeks have been spent working on more new material (when one or more of the members of the group have not been violently ill). Some of the material and directions we had been travelling over the previous few months have been scrapped in favor of the things that we have been working on of late. This is partly due to the perceived quality of the material and the departure of Gary and Eric, both of whom we wish well in their future musicking. With new members the face of the band changes though in the most primary of ways, the band doesn’t change at all. The music always must be true to the players just as the players must be to the music.

We hope to have some new material ready soon. If you’re reading this… you’ll be the first to know about it.

Rehearsals still going

rm — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:34:17 +0000

As we slink into another new year carving a planetary cycle deeper into the millennium rehearsals continue. Ideas are tried against various patterns of drums-bass-guitar-synth, drums-bass-guitar-guitar, percussion-bass-guitar-noise…, ideas are summarily tossed into the wastebasket, molded, revisited, struggled with in remembering…

A renewed commitment has been called for and adopted in hopes of accelerating the writing/rehearsal process. Due diligence done in several areas such as tone and timbre, tempo, tonic recognition, new angles on improvisation discussed and explored as best as we are able.

It shouldn’t be long now… or so I’m told.

Happy New Year

rm — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:30:24 +0000

Please have a safe and enjoyable New Year’s Eve celebration tonight. We’ve had a great year and look forward to seeing each and every one of you in 2011. We may even have some new music for you.

Cheers!

Duck Hunting

rm — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:17:08 +0000

This evening Congress will be hard at work making changes that will forever shape our great nation and so will we be. They have their lame duck session… we have ours. Musicking the night away as we ftry to focus on seeing the face of several new pieces we will be without Gary as he is away on business. Monkey business, for sure.

With a bit of luck the musick should be in full sight to the band in January and we can begin work on recording what will be our first album.

Eye-gore?

rm — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:48:41 +0000

Another bit of productivity yesterday in spite of Randy needing to leave early (… or was that the source of productivity, hmm…?). Work on the stickier bits on several new pieces as well as a new exploration into bitonality inspired by Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring (an edited portion is posted as the weekly teaser). The general consensus has been to work on pieces like this in hopes of writing more thematically unified works and stand those in stark juxtaposition with the shorter more accessible numbers. The plan at this point is to continue working through the holidays and to begin recording early next year. RM

You got the right one, Ba-ba-aye… Uh, huh!

rm — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:10:19 +0000

Work continued on what would have been Hendrix’s 68th birthday and to commemorate what might’ve been we recorded a pre-production demo of the least Hendrix-like song we could come up with. It has often been pondered, “had Hendrix lived…” and while I hate the thought of Jimi doing Pepsi commercials, well… Mass Culture is a powerful thing…

Elections are over but Randy is still running

rm — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:27:43 +0000

Please plan on attending our friends Runner and The Thermodynamics reunion show Fri 11/19 @ TT The Bear’s Cambridge Details are here on Facebook Randy will be joining the band on keyboards and it’s sure to be a great event.

Another Year Older…

rm — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:09:17 +0000

A big Happy Birthday to Gary who turned 116 years old today! He’s having his hip replaced and the joints of his fingers lubricated to play all of the snaky, twisting guitar parts he comes up with. You know, the one that I just fake…

Rehearsal, Pilgrims, Bean & Leaf

rm — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:18:26 +0000

As I prepared to make the trip to CT with Guitar Circle New England for our performance at the Bean & Leaf on Saturday the remaining Intervalers gathered in a secret basement location decorated in Iggy Pop and JFK posters in hopes of redefining the music of a generation in a few short hours. While I’m certain that they succeeded, they are not yet revealing the fruits of their labor and I’m left only to “wait and see.” (cue Tom Petty) The list of material is growing, being refined, revised and regurgitated into something special. Hey… at least we think so but we are in the band so what do we know. For those of you in the Granite State be sure to see our own Eric Riccio perform with his better half, Savage Pilgrim on Saturday at Johnny Bad’s in Manchester, NH. Bring your own cranberry sauce…

Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rhythmatic

rm — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:26:04 +0000

Work on new material continued on Saturday with focus on a brand new song in the vein of heavy sludge rock greats Black Sabbath, Wizard and Van Halen sure to appeal to the 18-24 crowd with a strong leaning toward to males. Our jazz-influenced drummer found it especially challenging to play sooo… sloooooow… ly… Currently, we are on the doorstep of roughly 6 new songs which we plan to begin recording in the next month or so.