Headed into the studio!

Okay, big deal.  A lot of you folks find time to record all the time!  Once upon a time I had the luxury of making recording a high priority.  I worked very hard at it .  I became pretty good at it.

Sometimes life hits you hard .  Unemployment where I live is north of 11%.  I’ve been here before, but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with, I just know what to expect and how to best survive through this kind of economy…you work your butt off, work some more, and keep working.  You pass out, get up and do it all over again.  Usually great things happen, but really we’re just trying to survive and some things need to take a back seat.  And so it is with songwriting and recording my own music, it’s below the line.

There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it though.  In my head constantly acting as my own producer on songs I’ve not finished yet.  Thinking of new song ideas.  Wondering…if I become an economic casualty, would I put the same enthusiasm and passion into songwriting that’s made me successful in my other ventures and make this part of the dream a reality?

Next week I’ll take a few days off to refresh, then spend a few days in the studio.  I plan to work with the lovely Kerry and the lovely Keelin and see what we can do in those precious few days.  Maybe we’ll finish something, maybe it will be something totally new that gets half-done.  I don’t know.

Why blog about it?  Because if I don’t, I’ll find some other thing on my huge to-do list I need to do instead.  If I post it, then I’ll be compelled not to look like an idiot by not following through.  And because I really need to do this!  I’ll even go so far as to kick off twittering from the studio next week.  Granted I haven’t made the studio twitter ID public yet (though a couple scam-bots are already following me), but I guess we’ll get the ball rolling!  Follow us on http://twitter.com/gatorstudios  m’kay?

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