Another Saturday Night...

And we all know the song...

Actually, it's kind of a welcome night in. Still feeling kind of hermitous following recent personal events, feeling kind of tired from the working week that was & just kind of listless in general really...

Hooked up with an erstwhile bass-player & guitarist last night, as well as a twenty-something singer-songwriter the guitarist has been talking up of late, for a let's-see-if-we-can-still-play-together/work-with-new-people-&-songs/"Hey-let's-form-a-new-band!" kind of night at the bassist's house... after we'd serenaded his year-old daughter to sleep with Steely Dan & Dave Matthews Band songs. It all went rather well & it looks like there could be a replacement for the very-nearly defunct Joshua band on my horizon.

Hmm... replacing an electro/goth/pop band with a folk/country/rock band... Well, I'm nothing if not versatile.

A nice opportunity for some good old fashioned finger-toughening, natural playing, instead of the calculated, atmospheric, deliberate style I've been using for the last few years. There's still some blues licks in the long term memory, apparently. It was also nice to see a band form so easily - with a keen drummer on the near horizon. After the trials & personnel tribulations of my band over the years, it was reassuring to be part of something that clicked so easily.

Now... where are my Bonnie Raitt & Sheryl Crow albums?? I need to practice.