The Sugar Loaf Lake Sessions - 9/1/2009

Last night we rehearsed at Jason's place in Chelsea. Brought to you by Leinenkugel and Sam Adams, the "Sugar Loaf Lake Sessions" were recorded for posterity and we ended up with a surprisingly good recording. The following songs were rehearsed -

*Just Once - TBAP
*Not On Your Life - TBAP
*Hiding Out - TBAP
*Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley
*Second Chance - Shinedown
*100 in a 55 - Pop Evil

We discovered that "Everybody Here Wants You" is as challenging to perform for us as expected, so we plan to add it as a 'new' song for next week's rehearsals. On a related note, we plan to record EHWY for submission into the 12th annual Jeff Buckley tribute - once we get comfortable with our performance of the song, of course. The submissions are due October 5th, so we have about a month to rehearse and attempt a good recording of it.

Next week's rehearsal(s) will be a review week. In other words, we aren't officially adding any new songs to the list. We have quickly built up our set list to 22 songs since August 4th. Not bad for less than a month's worth of rehearsals!

Finally, we are planning to visit the Ark next week and enter their raffle to perform at Open Mic on Wednesday. If our name is drawn, this will give us an opportunity to a.) play the Ark! (2 songs) and b.) rehearse in front of a live audience before the November gig. We will most likely plan to visit the Ark regularly before (and possibly after) the gig to continue improving our live performances.

That's it for now.
-Andy