Well, things in our world are officially weird.

I mean, we have a major novel virus spreading quickly around the world, and are trying desperately to slow that spread so that the people who are infected get the care that keeps them alive. As I’m sure you know, dear reader, that means that live music is OVER right now. My full-time musician buddies are shitting themselves about when they’ll have another gig so they can pay their rent, and I hope that they implement a temporary assistance program for them. They deserve to be paid to stay home, just like all the people in the service industry (bars and restaurants), movies, and a lot of retail. Fortunately for me, I’m a coward who has never had the nerve to just do music, so my day job is basically the same, and the only change for me work-wise is a positive one, because I prefer working in my home studio to being at the office. Not playing is CRAP, but I will do what I can to help the vulnerable by staying out of circulation.

If there was ever a time for me to hunker down and really get some shit recorded and done it’s now. I’ll have no real band distractions, except for some awesome live-streaming stuff we’re planning. It’s going to be just me sitting in my studio with all my guitars and keyboards. The unfortunate thing? I’m completely stuck because I really don’t have material. I haven’t written a new song in over four years. FOUR. At my last residence, I did not write a single new song. That is mind-blowing to me. I’ve always fancied myself a songwriter, but almost half a decade of not writing makes it clear that’s not really something I am anymore. That’s okay, but I’d really like to change that.

My plan for the next month or two (assuming this shit’s going to be around a while) is to write at least one complete song. I think I’ll document the process over on social media (I’m musicalschizo pretty much everywhere – YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MySpace…)

Keep an eye out for that and an eye out for new fun Chandler and The Bings content, because there’s no way the four of us can stand more than a few weeks of not being goofy together and playing some music. We’re going to figure out the technology of a streaming jam. I’m sure there’s some Google thing or Twitch or whatever that should be able to make that happen.

Take care, wash your hands, stay home if you can, do what you can for your friends who are financially hurting because of this stuff, and please stay healthy!

Peace be the non-journey…

TMS