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Live at the Red Door, 3/17/08
The Wailing Wall Live at the Red Door, Portsmouth, NH, 3/17/08
So next week, I was supposed to play two really, really awesome shows in Portsmouth, NH and Monhegan Island, ME. Unfortunately, due to circumstances out of my control, I have had to cancel both these shows. I have never been to Monhegan before, but Portsmouth holds a very special place in my heart. I have played there a number of times in the past few years, and I have always felt warmly welcomed by the city’s amazing community of musicians (you may recall my previous post about Portsmouth musician Guy Capecelatro III).
So, as a tribute to the love I feel for/in Portsmouth, I have decided to post a four song solo set that I played back in March 2008 at the Red Door, which is quite possibly my favorite venue in the universe. You get three Hospital Blossoms favorites and a Bee Gees cover, played by yours truly on a borrowed nylon-string guitar. It was a wonderful night, and I hope some of that wonderfulness comes across in the recording.
My Heart Is About To Burst
The Wailing Wall - Everything Around You Turns to Shit
The RPM Challenge is a project that encourages musicians everywhere to create a full-length album (at least 35 minutes or 10 songs) entirely in the month of February. All material must be previously unreleased, and they encourage participants to write all the songs during February as well (no covers are allowed). The idea is not to try and make the most amazing album of all time, just to make an album - it could be anything! It could be 35 minutes of nothing but hand claps! The purpose, according to their mission statement, is to “get busy and stop waiting around for the muse to appear…[because] taking action puts you in a position to get inspired.”
Now, if anybody is a poster child for “waiting around for the muse to appear,” its me. My creative process is probably best explained by Oscar Wilde’s famous quote (I am paraphrasing here), “I worked very hard all day - in the morning, I added a comma, and in the afternoon, I took it back out.” I am a neurotic, a nitpicker, a second-guesser, a perfectionist. I form songs over months and months, adding or subtracting a word or a chord as they come to me; when I sit down with the specific intent of “writing a song” in one sitting, the results are unfailingly pathetic. The idea of writing and recording an album entirely during the month of February could not be any more frightening to me, which is why, this year, I opted not to participate (I told myself over and over that it was because of my busy schedule, but really, who am I kidding?). However, a few of my friends are currently hard at work on their own RPM albums, including Wailing Wall drummer Chris Roush, aka Soul Saint Marie, and Portsmouth, NH’s own Guy Capecelatro III.