The last week and a half has been tough. The KBG is in crisis. We’re having to re-examine our way of being. David Knight has had to return to the daytime working world. That deprives me of a writer/producer partner that I can work with in person during the day. It will also cut deeply into opportunities to rehearse as weeknights are now out of the question. And yet we all want to keep it alive.
I’m the only member of KBG that is able to make a living as a musician. I’m by no means the best player in the band…we are all just damned good…but I make a living at it. Then again, if they all had gigs like me we would hardly ever get together because we’d all have different travel schedules. ’Tis what it is.
Damn.
So…I’ll be setting up my drums in my studio and making tracks to send to Dave. It’ll be an interesting experiment at worst and a workable second option at best. When David and I lay down tracks we play them together and without time reference (click track). We won’t be able to do that so the feeling and feeding off each other will be reduced to just one feeding off the other….me laying down a drum track and building a version of the song where I play guitar, drums and sing, and Dave adding guitars etc. to that. This technique is common enough, much of modern music is perfectly metered so there are no fluctuations in the groove, but playing with other people, in the same room, without a click, with fluctuations, that’s what I want.
Anyway, the disappointment is still showing I know. The other side of all this is that David and I have both realized how much this thing means to us, and I say ‘Dave and I’ because we are the guys who birthed the band but Bob and Murray are still in too.
But it’s set my mind to wondering what I can do. I can keep the website alive and keep doing all the social media stuff…probably more even. I can keep writing songs… or writing whatever.
Just the week before the shit hit the fan I posted a Quote from Confucius …’Doesn’t matter how slow you go. Just don’t stop.’
That says it all.