The Gecko Goes On A Hiatus

Yes, it’s true, I’m afraid. Tomorrow I head off to the frozen lands of Ohio for a month and I’m not even taking my electric guitar. How can it be? Well, I’ve got this book manuscript to revise … and a family to tend to … some job interviews to prepare for …

Now I’m bogged down with grading final exams. Oh, the boredom of it! It could kill me with boredom. I had last eve to play guitar, but I was exhausted and could find no inspiration for new music, only half-formed ideas, fuzzy riffs that in the end went nowhere, but will be stored in the vault for later when hopefully the muses will come to my aid.

So what will happen with LFA during the next month? Well, we’re finalizing Bloomington Democracy. In fact, at this moment we wait breathlessly to discover what Chopper Newt will do with the music from our final song: Poster Child, a brilliant lyric from Gator’s “drugs and booze youth cycle.” After the remarkable achievement of Block Party, I expect Poster Child to turn out beautifully, too. It’s a hard rocking piece of 80’s nostalgia–set during the era of our youth in the barren moonscapes of the Midwest where hard liquor, weed, and acid formed the experiential triptych of cold winter suburban nights on the outskirts of Chicago. How clearly I can remember it ….

There are several new songs in the works, too, that will (I imagine) eventually appear on our next project, tentatively entitled Copyright Is For Losers. Several have potential, and I will help the guys get them produced, but I’ve already recorded my parts. If anything needs fixing, it’ll have to wait the arrival of February.

But wait! I do have an acoustic guitar in Ohio, so perhaps I will find time to record something a little different. Who knows? Now, back to the grading. Ugh! Where’s that hard liquor, weed, and acid when I need it?

the Gecko