Man, you know what I miss? Being in a room with two other people, playing music together. Sometimes you play actual songs, sometimes you just mess around with riffs and try things out, and sometimes the messing around turns into an actual song. And sometimes you just sit and talk about your jobs or whatever.
Band practice.
I will be honest: It will be hard to get back into the habit when it becomes a thing again, but I promise, I will not take it for granted – for at least a month or two.
Which brings us to “A Smooth Transition.” A couple days after the election, Jesse Hall, Greg Hopkins, and Nate Daly – at least a couple of whom are members of Sex Hogs II – got together and hashed things out with their instruments. (I am positively salivating at the very idea.) (And I will assume they were fully masked up and had room to be set well apart from each other.) The piece you hear here was pulled together – seamlessly, I might add – from different elements of this session. Sometimes, all you really need to sum up a pivotal moment in history is bass, guitar, drums, patience, and the willingness to get weird.