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December 17, 2004

VIVE LE D.F.

Heeeeere’s JOHNNY!! I’m back again with my usual ramblings. Spent yesterday working hard in the studio with Jon on a couple of new tunes – it really is a great feeling when you slave for hours over something that doesn’t seem to work, and then you try some mad, random idea….and suddenly it all comes together. We’ve been messing about with a guitar riff that Sean brought in a few months ago, and we knew it had something. And finally, yesterday, Jon and I muted everything other than the vocals and drums, and wrote the music around the vocal melody. Not our usual way of working, but lo and behold, we came across some cool ideas. Tentative title is ‘Throw It All Away” .

My thoughtfulness of a day or so ago seems to have dissipated and my usual manic work schedule is back in full effect. (Thanks for the kind words) I feel productive again and I intend to make the most of the headspace while it lasts. Oh, by the way, the Modern Guitars site - www.modernguitars.com - now has a weekly Blog from my good self. It will be more of a 'technical' blog, concentrating on guitars, equipment and the music business, but check it out if you like. Its very new, but hopefully will turn into something fun if you are a guitar player, or a musician.

God knows what I’m gonna do over the Xmas week – I’m getting outta LA and won’t have my computers with me. Its going to be all about the cellphone – I’ll be posting what I can, when I can, but I think I’ll actually be forced to have a week long break. Lots of massages, the odd facial, and plenty of sunshine. Mmmmm, sounds good!!

The Camp Freddy show on the 27th Jan seems to be all systems go – the first ad appeared in the LA Weekly yesterday – I know we are all looking forward to doing a full-on, free, no guest list show. I hope some of you guys make it to the Key Club – we’ll be putting on the usual brand of CF madness. And I hope to be able to confirm a couple of Doheny shows when we reconvene after New Year. Working on a couple of ideas, but the business is shut down now until January, so I wont be getting any answers until then.

Today is the last Doheny rehearsal of the year. I think we all feel pretty good about the work we’ve done as a band this year. Our goal was to be ‘album-ready’ by the end of 04 and we achieved that. Lets all hope that 05 sees us able to record that record. The new songs that we have in the pot are definitely exciting to me, the band is just about as tight as it could be, everyone has progressed as players, and above all, I think we have all had a lot of fun working together. We’ll be doing the chat this Sunday at 7pm, and then its Holiday Time!!

We have tried to listen to your comments and feedback over the last few months. We have stickers being printed (the hats will come early next year), we have video posted from the Key Club, we have the chat scheduled…….PLEASE feel free to let me know what you would like to read about/see/hear etc. We will try and get another track up on the main site soon, but we don’t want to let all of them out before we finish the record. But let me know what YOU want me to write about in 05. What sort of things would be interesting to you. This Doheny Family will be a part of the band whatever happens and we listen to you guys. So don’t be backwards in coming forward. Be as interactive as you like. And we will try to accommodate. Vive Le DF!!!! Have fun, stay safe, and I’ll be back at the weekend.

Peace

Billy

Posted by vivelerock at December 17, 2004 07:47 AM

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