It was a fun but frustrating little ride with the Roland GR-55 and GK-3 pickup, but it reminded me how little time I have to mess with stuff these days. So it went back.

I still haven’t completed any more new songs for the record. I know we’re four months into the year, and I set my mind on completing it this year, so I still figure I’ve got plenty of time. I just need to take time to write and hone what I’ve got into something worth properly recording. I know I want to find a way to play my songs live, so maybe the first step will be hitting some open mics and doing a few tunes and then talking to my musician friends and seeing if I can convince them to do a show with me at some club somewhere – do about 25-30 minutes of my stuff. I think that would be cool. Not sure who I’d get, but I have talked to some people who I really like and respect about it and they seemed interested, so…

It should be a good year, though. Got new gear-haulers (wife’s new 2010 Scion xD and my new 2011 Toyota RAV4), so I’ll always have reliable and capacious transportation to gigs. I just have to have some booked!

Speaking of which, Roman Holiday ROCKS Carlos & Charlie’s this coming Saturday. We are ÜBER-excited about it. Well, at least I am. We haven’t had the email frequency we enjoyed with past lineups of the band – everyone seems pretty distracted and busy these days, which is kind of a bummer. But I’m looking forward to putting on a tremendous show for the C&C crowd on Easter eve. 🙂

If you live in Austin or are going to be around, make the trip up there – it’s a fun time! 🙂
TMS