You Down With OPT?

It's Thursday again, which means another DP get together. As mentioned earlier, we have been rehearsing for our Comeback Special. We'll be doing 8 originals, mostly "new". "All Being Equal", the very first song written by Charlie for this band, will be included, as will "Warm December" from our first official album "See You In May". The remaining 6 have been written since the release of that record and will all appear on our as-yet-untitled sophomore effort. The second part of our set will consist of covers. Our first rehearsal of these songs went surprisingly well... so well, in fact, that we added another the following week. Tonight we'll make sure the covers are still fresh in our alcohol-drenched brains, then we'll run through the actual set a couple times.



Until now, we've only dabbled into other people's tunes. If I had my way we'd do a new cover every show (like Charlie's and my former band, Count 210, used to do). We'd even record one once in a while... well, we actually have... KISS' "C'Mon And Love Me", The Posies' "Please Return It" (both of those for tribute CDs) and Wilco's "Already In Love". I just mean that since we got the 8-track, I was hoping we'd bang out a cover now and then to throw up on the website. There's still time.

It was Charlie's idea to add some covers to our set this time out. As with everything else in our little democracy, we all had a say in what songs were picked for rehearsal. It just turned out that they all worked. Go figure. [sarcasm]It's not like we're a good band or anything.[/sarcasm] I'd like to think that at some point (soon) we can record any or all of these songs. We have a Beatles tune to record in the next few months, but there doesn't seem to be a rush on that at the moment. I know the rest of the band will point out that we have an album to finish, but sometimes working on someone else's guitar part or drum fill or vocal style can be a nice diversion. Plus you could learn something.

I realize I've kinda been all over the place with this post, and I apologize if it was hard to follow, but it's been too long since this blog was updated. Somebody had to step up.