It took like what seemed an age to set up all of our gear into the studios, and then to get signal from Andy's 8-mic drum setup; I felt somewhat bored and worn out, although I'm sure I will crave to regress back to the state I am at now in 24-36 hours time. As we were setting up I was messing around with my delay pedal and got this sound I really loved. Played around with a chord progression that I feel suited the sound I was trying to create, and we started playing around a groove in 7/8. It felt really really good. Me and Andy have been playing together for years, so we kinda know the nature of how our jamming sessions go now; if we start well, we can go for at least 60-90 minutes just from there. Whether it's random covers from the past or just riffing on E for 10 minutes, we find a way to just keep some momentum going. It's really refreshing after such a long break from creating music in this way.
We did run out of steam eventually though. We got about an hours worth of listenable material and then decided to have a break. There was some mixing of the songs we recorded earlier that day, and just some general space from each other mentally I think (something that is probably going to be absolutely essential by the end).
We never played anything else.
I dunno if it was the fatigue or whatever, but we just didn't have the desire to play. I think we let ourselves get away with doing that tonight, because it was our first night, and we were still near human. Tomorrow night I think we are fully expecting to have no desire to play, but still know it will be so beneficial to chug through to see what kind of outcome can be achieved.
As it turns out, 24 hours is a really long time to stay awake. You'd think logic would dictate how obvious that statement is, but yet everyone seems to be of the assumption that its relatively straightforward. All I know is, I've barely picked up the guitar for the last week or two, and after playing for 90 minutes, I was done. It's a strange phenomenon.
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