So I just got back from another studio session with the band – our 2nd session, and already we have two pretty cool tracks pretty much fully worked out! After finishing our first track “Heartbreaker” last week, I kinda found myself with writer’s block, so we ended up practicing that same track until our time was up.
This week however, we acquired a new band member – “Paul” who is now playing bass. Bob – who was playing bass is now playing rhythm guitar. So our formation is now as follows…
Martin: Lead guitar / rhythm.
Bob: Rhythm guitar / Lead.
Paul: Bass guitar.
Me: Vocals.
(Now all we need is a drummer!)
Martin played me what he called a “happy” song – however, I felt that it was perfect for a really deep emotional (kinda slightly sad song). I’d already started writing some lyrics for a song called “Insomnia” – since it seems relevant to my current sleepless situation – (and I ain’t even in Seattle!)
I immediately started writing some lyrics for a song about a good friend of mine from school / college called Jamie who died recently. The trajedy came as quite a shock to me. I’d bumped into him over Christmas and he told me then that he had cancer, but the thing is – I just found out today off Cheryl that he’d beat the bowel cancel and actually died of pneumonia! – Not something you expect to have to deal with as a 29 year old ??
I was slightly pissed that I’d missed his funeral the day I found out about it, and it’d been playing on my mind for a while – since I’d been texting him and trying to get him to catch up with me over a few beers. He said that his chemo made him a bit tired – and I sort of took the piss out of him a bit to my other friends who were round at the time of texting him – so now I feel totally shit.
So, I wrote a song about all of this – him being a good friend to me, some of the good times we shared and me being totally pissed off that he had to die and I can now never see him again. We’ve pretty much got the whole song figured out and it sounds really good – it’ll be nice if we get to do it at some gigs in honour of Jamie!
It’s just a shame he’ll never get to hear it.
So, I’m looking forward to next week down in the studio to finish it off and hopefully get another song sorted!
