Tonight is TDoJB’s first trio show in–well, as The Death of Jason Brody, which means it’s our first trio show ever. I am excited that we’re playing out again even though I suspect the venue accommodations will be less than stellar. No biggie, though. This is some sort of contest thrown by Original Sessions, which does seem legit enough. We shall see. Anyway, it has been interesting picking up after letting go a band member, and we have challenged ourselves to continue down the same path sound-wise while stripping things down a bit. So we’re all triggering this, looping that, in addition to playing our regular parts and singing. In the song EMERGENCY, for example, I am playing the keyboard part in the verses while singing and throwing some guitar jabs in there, too. Geoff is stepping up and playing some piano bits here and there. Even Mr. Olson has a new toy that he’s using during the set to generate other sounds on top of his drum parts. Sometimes I feel like an octopus and wish that we were your standard-fare rock band, a power trio, whatever the fuck that really means. But mostly I like the challenge of what we are doing and I cannot wait to apply all these new moves to the new songs I am working on.

Speaking of, I have really been pushing to be on a more serious/rigid writing schedule and it is paying off. There are around 20 songs in the pipeline right now and we are about to start tackling them as a band. In addition to the stuff that we recorded at Headgear in February/March (EMERGENCY, YOUR REFUGEE, LOW LIGHT, HAPPIER WAYS (aka THERE WERE HAPPIER WAYS TO GO), some of these songs will hopefully comprise the rest of the next TDoJB release. Judging by the reactions we’ve gotten to the new recordings so far, this should be a record that we can be really proud of. So in the face of change, great things can blossom. I’m sticking to that for today.

And yes, we’re still gonna make a record, at least that’s the idea for now.