Hmmmmmm…
-micah
(PS. Thanks to my friend Andy Ogle for pointing this out to me)
It sounds silly, but what happens when your job conflicts with your real life? When your job keeps you too stressed to function well when you are off?
This is a catch-22 situation. If you keep your stressful job, you won’t be able to enjoy your life, but if you quit, you won’t have enough money to enjoy your life.
I have just stepped down from the position of full-time instructor at Draughons Junior College, and have taken a new part-time role. This is not so much due to “having too much money from being a rock star”, as it is due to “having too much to do as a musician to keep up this full-time job”.
Over the last couple of months, it has been pretty stressful, and I got to the point of utter mental exhaustion. That is saying a lot; I’m the one who never sleeps, who plays shows back-to-back-to-back and is happy about it, and who is always pressuring everyone to work, work, work.
But I realized I couldn’t really fathom the thought of keeping up my teaching schedule and doing all this band stuff anymore. And that’s good. After all, who doesn’t want to be kept busy doing what they love?
So that just means I am going to have to trust that the money will come. And I do.
I feel so relaxed.
-micah
This is your first secret fact about the album.
Listen to Chauvet with the volume turned up really high. As Gabe was recording the vocals for this song, a couple of people walked in and started laughing. At the very beginning, you will hear this. This is actually something that happened live, and Gabe just decided to leave it on there.
Secret Fact #1…
-micah
In the past 3 months or so, I have had hardly any time. Thus, the fact that it has been a while since I posted on this blog. I have been living the crazy, leave-work-and-immediately-leave-town-for-another-show-or-maybe-6 kind of lifestyle. We’ve had several weekends with back-to-back-to-back shows. One day, we did about 6 shows one right after another. Our tour calendar counted this as one show since it was all crammed together. That same weekend, we did three other appearances.
We did a TON of work preparing for the Civic Center Show. It was a huge deal, and an immense amount of work.
And we got to step up our show by a lot. People said it was the best show they’d ever seen. Period.
There were, however, an immense amount of technical difficulties. So even though people loved the show and said it was the most intense and best ever, I know it could have been even MORE intense. Other people don’t know, but I know. I know how much more ridiculously awesome it could have been.
Which just means next time, it will be mind-blowing.
-micah