11/06/21 — The Pencil Problem
Oh boy, oh boy, this is another game changer.
A couple of days ago, I was listening to some of Kamaw Tut’s jam sessions, and I’ve found a mind blowing song. It was Szelest who came up with the chords (a couple of years ago, he says), and for over an hour we were trying to figurę out how to play them. It was tricky, as the song has 3 parts, and each of them is in a different tempo and requires different feels.
Anyway, both me and Kilijanek came up with our parts, but playing it was rocky to say the least, mostly on the part of Kilijanek, as he was unable to change the rythms so quickly on the drums.
I remember I wasn’t very keen on that song during the jam, but when I listened to it these couple of days ago I instantly fell in love with it, and it inspired me to write a vocal melody & lyrics.
I took this hour long recording and cut it in different places (to cut out the parts where we don’t even play „kinda good”), and put together a 1:30 showcase of the song in order to sing the lyrics I’ve written. I found the result satisfying (amazing if you will) and sent it to Szelest, whether he aproves or not (it’s his chords after all). He didn’t respond, but yesterday I was at his place, and we were supposed to come up with some structure to the gig’s Setlist.
I showed him the demo again, and he was like „damn, we absolutely have to play this”.
And well, I couldn’t agree more.
The lyrics go something like this:
Without you around
I cannot write
My thoughts will get lost
And my songs will be toast
How can it be
To play hide and seek
All of the time
All of the time
You are mine
But you can’t be found
Where do you hide?
Come back inside...
...my pencil case
...my pencil case
Which I like, as they seem at first to be some sort of stalker/misogynistic lyrics, but then they turn out to be about a pen, that you’ve lost somewhere and it drives you mad (because you can't doodle or write down any thoughts – that will get lost, if they won't be written down, like, just right now).
So we’ve decided to try it one more time on the next rehearsal (sunday).
Here’s the demo version (keep in mind it’ll get much better the next time):
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/a7RKKujjSvYdUtmJ6
News of the world
By the way, on the sunday rehearsal we’ll play as a quartet again. As we’ll be auditioning a second guitar player. A guy our age, who is Szelest’s girlfriend’s roommate.
Wish us luck!