One more thing from last weekend. I got to see Jeremy and Yuki and listen to a pianica quartet by Kamagawa (a river in Kyoto). In the picture below is one of Jeremy’s friends, in a state I am currently quite envious us. But I can’t complain given that the day before I was floating on a pond in a rowboat.

Anyway, there is another point to this. In July I am going to band camp. Yes…band camp. Some guys in the music circle at NTT have organized a trip to an inn/music studio in Niigata. We’ve formed 4 bands whose members will drive up there, practice for a day, sleep for a night, practice a bit more, drink, hold a drunken concert, sleep (maybe) and then drive back.

Last week we had to think of what songs we would like to cover (to determine how to arrange the bands). I got a little gutsy and said that I would like to do a song that I wrote - if some people would be willing to spend a little time to arrange parts for it. I also mentioned that maybe some people should hear the song first cause like…I like it but…
No one has asked for my demo tape. We’ll see how it goes. I am half excited and half scared that they’ll hate me for the tune and the effort of having to make it sound good somehow. But mostly excited especially because I would like to learn more about the making music as a group process.

I have a first practice for this year’s summer festival performance on Sunday. Maybe I will test the tune out on those guys.

Hope you all have a good weekend.