Since Hot Cops are being sleepy right now I've been thinking a lot about what we were able to do in one year. Fifteen songs. Three covers we could probably pull off without messing them up too bad (ok, maybe two). Eleven shows in Eleven months ranging from bars / clubs, to legion halls, to living rooms, to Baltimore. Played in front of audiences ranging from four (Lucky Cat, Brooklyn) to about two-hundred (Sidebar, Baltimore). One record (which reminds me.. Drew, please message me your mailing address so I can send one to you).
I mean.. that's pretty good, right? Certainly more than I expected when Jimmy and I had our first practice with a drummer who decided to quit on us the night before the second practice. It's been a good, fun, and sort of productive year as far as I'm concerned.
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Which sorta leads me to my next thing I've been thinking about. I've got a handful of new songs. Some are definitely hot cops songs. But some are most definitely NOT hot cops songs. Mostly acoustic.. sometimes noisy.. a little angular.. fast, but not very poppy and definitely not pop-punky. Yeah, I dunno. I think it might be time to spring Pink and Dirty* in to action.
* Pink and Dirty has been the name of an imaginary band Jimmy and I have been talking about since last summer. One very, very drunk evening on Toni's parent's deck (i believe it was the first time i'd ever 'hung out' with birdsting), former Mitsuko bassist Phil mumbled something to himself that to me sounded like "Pink and Dirty". He was actually saying something far less intriguing sounding, but I couldn't shake how much I liked it as a band name. I always sort of envisioned it being a My Bloody Valentine-like sounding band... but maybe it's suitable for my new tunes? ***
Apologies for the ramble. Work has become incredibly, incredibly dull.. even when I'm busy, so the mind has been wandering more and more.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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Maybe this is the wrong answer, but I bet it'd be fun to try to work those tunes into the Hot Cops catalog. That's what I'd do anyway. I'd recently written a bunch of stuff that wasn't too much like my band's usual material. I could have went out on my own with it but then I think the band might have kept going in the same direction and we would have all got real bored and quit soon. Now that we've tried going in other directions with some of my tunes, it's encouraged other dudes to go in other directions with their tunes and I think the next album's worth of stuff is going to be more interesting because of it. Anyway I'm also pretty petrified of doing anything without my band of many years, but that's my take on it. And give me the record already damn it. No seriously like whenever we see each other next make sure you bring it. It's a gay excuse to get together and hang.
I promise I'll bring it next time. Although I'd be more than happy to mail it to you. We can hang out soon regardless!
I'll send you my address. Hey I think we'll have the masters back this weekend.
Bad ass on both accounts!
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