Ever wonder how a band gets off the ground? From rehearsing in my living room--Texas garages are prohibitively hot--to low-budget gigs to weddings where the sky is the limit. This is the story of The Original Recipe Band told from the point of view of the arranger and instigator-in-chief.

Saturday, July 17, 2004

Arranging for fun and profit

The whole week's been nonstop writing. Finale is holding up very well, certainly better than me. But I have a stack of paper to show for my efforts, one less ream of paper, and I am out of scotch tape again. Yikes. Knock on Wood, What Does it Take, ah I can't even remember them all.

There's a fly in the ointment next week. I have to work the Unison booth at Tx Bandmasters from Friday through Sunday, then I have to figure out the always-delicate calculus of getting 10 people in the same room at the same time for the same rehearsal.

Then we play again at Cabo Loco on Friday night. I like the little rehearsals we've been having--just Leroy and Javier and me or the whole rhythm section if we're lucky.

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