this past weekend was fun, encouraging and frustrating and hot. friday was jody's 30th birthday surprise party. great group of friends, great food, and we got home before 1am. on saturday through the sparks 2.0 had the first real rehearsal, and it went quite well. we played some upbeat songs from the new record, as well as selected songs from their previous ep's and lazarus beach.
immediately after rehearsal, i discivered my truck battery had been killed (by the rain?), and i limped home, where it died again. sunday i had to juggle a bunch of stuff to make it to my first rehearsal with electroliner, which was hectic, but alison pretty much saved me at various points during the weekend.
electroliner is a new band comprised of john strohm & bo butler on guitar/vocals, claire cormany on bass/vocals, pete nice on pedal steel, and myself on drums. the idea is to feature the songs that john, bo and claire bring in, either new or older. in addition, we want to include a lot of fun covers songs that don't suck. both days were dripping hot with rain, humidity and hot temps. it doesn't make loading gear any easier.
hopefully the americana / pop / country vibe of electroliner will complement the 8 headed baby wolf sonic attack of this revamped (and potent) line-up of through the sparks. its nice that pretty much everyone in each band has played/toured together in various line-ups.
in somewhat of a repeat of july '07... i'll play two sets with each band in one night, coming up in september at bottletree, for a benefit show we are putting together for the staff, who got stiffed by the wackoids at city stages.