The below picture is how In Liquid decided to ring in the New Year. It was an awesome night filled with fresh roasted hog, chili, Mexican 7 layer dip (made by a Cajun girl), Hawaiian sweet rolls, pumpkin rolls and numerous other things I'm sure I'm forgetting. Our manager, Casey Derouen, had requested we do an acoustic gig at his in-laws for NYE. We thought there would be no better time to break out some Cowboys of Porridge tunes than the end of 2012.
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In Liquid performing Dead Man's Curve at 2012/13 New Years Eve Party
What with everything being mostly done with recording yesterday we were pretty fresh on most of the songs and after the LSU game, everyone needed a pick me up so we played from 10:00-11:45. Then we took a break to turn the PA into a radio and watch some fireworks. After the fireworks we played again until about 1:00am before starting to pick it up. We played songs we hadn't played (ever as a band) since we were in high school, which is a lot longer for Jesse than Cheesy or I. We had a blast and I personally haven't had that much fun at a gig since we opened for Snydley Whiplash. But the drive home from Topsy is long and treacherous and by 2:45 I was finally rolling in... and still had gear to sluff in the drizzle. I hit the bed hard and with some cuddles from Stud was out like a light.
My glorious New Year's Day breakfast
Now to today... Today for me started just before 10:00. And it started with a shower because I was rank! Then I decided to continue my day with the glorious feast above. I had unfortunately exhausted my supply of bacon but medium eggs with buttery toast and orange juice is still excellent. I had intended to do cream of wheat as well but the box was elusive. I have since found it... above my microwave.
I didn't expect much to get done today. I came in the computer room, did some mixing and looked longingly at the bed. About 1:30 I decided I would take a nap, just when Jesse sent me a text reading "I just woke up". I told him to grab lunch and come over because I was going to take a catnap. When he showed up we watched what is quite possibly the worst movie ever. Yellowbrick Road. Do yourself a favor. Avoid it. It's not even terrible in the sense that Insatiable or Captrain Kronos Vampire Hunter are terrible. Insatiable at least got a reference in Borderlands II! If you want a real rant about it, email me, for now, back to harvesting...
After our terrible movie experience we came into the studio. Jesse had been pretty irritated from lack of sleep and being cooped up in my computer room for a week, understandably, and all he wanted to do today was lay down the electric track for Two Friends of Mine. We did it, he got it in one take, it was great. Then I coaxed him into laying down the solo, two rhythm electric tracks and redoing the acoustic track (that I was unhappy with, not him for once) for Two Bowls of Porridge with the thought: "It's all that's left, if you lay it down we're done." Worked like a charm.
One of the original idea's for the Cowboys of Porridge album cover
The current idea is to list the entire album (11 songs) for 5 bucks for .99 a song. Hopefully some of you enjoy it enough to pick up a tune or two. Hopefully more in the near future, but this may be the last blog for a while so I leave you with this closing message:
From Dick Jakman to all of you, may all your oats measure up to standard in 2013
Photo courtesy of Richard Jakman
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