"What's Doin' With Diefenbaker?" volume 1 - post-09/22/09 band practice

Tonight's was quite the atypical band practice. Lately we've been in a pretty good rut as far as band practice structure goes: Enter practice room, set up and "duck" around for 15-20 minutes, then launch into one of our four songs, repeat song, move on to next song, repeat that song, etc., and, poof, an hour's gone by. Things were a bit different tonight, but it all still worked out... eventually.

"The Rickness" (a general bad mood) was present from the beginning. Due to reasons totally unrelated to the band (residual effects of fryed cheese consumption over the weekend at the Maryland RennFest, threatening emails from health insurance providers) I (Johnny Diefenbaker) did not enter the practice in the correct mental state. Add to that the fact that we were going to attempt to add another song to the repertoire this evening and I only found out what song it would be after I entered the practice room. Conditions were not ideal, to say the least.

One run-through of "Maybe Michelle" (and a brief break to familiarize ourselves with our parts for the new song) later and things were off and running.

Discussions were had as per the desired BPM's and rhythm track for the new one, the history of the song (it's an original, actually quite old... circa 1997, I think), after which multiple run-throughs were attempted. Another Casio keyboard was brought in and a much more fitting drum track was introduced, which made me see the old-ass (to me) song differently and got me "butt-cised"(excited) about it as a Diefenbaker song.

Songs played this practice:

Maybe Michelle (Borneman/Fedak)
It's Not So Easy For Everyone (Borneman)

If you'd like to hear an extremely rough version of "It's Not So Easy", I'd refer you to Diefenbaker's soundclick page. As mentioned in the below supplemental post, though, the versions of the songs there bear very little resemblance to the "full band" versions one might hear on a tuesday, thursday, or saturday night if one happened to be passing by a certain rowhouse in Baltimore.