I went out to Jeep’s studio to do some backing vocals for weaklazyliar on Saturday. They’ve kept most of the music on this new CD secret, they haven’t played much of it at shows. I wish I had that much material to not be playing my new stuff at shows, I like the idea of it all being new when the CD comes out. Anyway, the one song they wanted me to sing on I had heard a few times, so I was relatively prepared when I got there. Got those done in a couple of takes, and then they asked if I wanted to do any more. Of course, the answer is “yes” because I love to sing and harmonize, and I love being on other people’s records. So I did some work on another song, whose title I will keep silent because I’m not sure how much info I’m allowed to reveal. They didn’t make me sign any confidentiality agreements, but you never know.
So, now seems as good a time as any to talk about weaklazyliar. The first time I ever played with them was at this very strange club in Marietta. This is early on during the Radiant City days. Gerlinda actually was playing solo that night, because at that point the band name was wholly accurate and she’d book shows that then she’d end up having to play solo because she couldn’t get the band to play. I remember she played “Rocketpop” that night and I was very jealous.
Weaklazyliar are an amazing band, and a group of great people. I really like the idea of our names being sort of intertwined as far as recognition goes. We’ve played a lot of shows together, I’ve sung with them at some of their shows, and we had a really great show last December where we just swapped songs, sang on each others stuff, and in general had a really comfortable time on stage. In my perfect utopia of a pop scene in Atlanta, where it’s a community that really strengthens each band involved, it always begins with our two acts, because we’ve been doing it for a while now.
Yeah, if I’m a little goofy right now it’s the pain medicine, people. Just bear with me. Years from now I’ll be able to read these and remember those wacky days in the late summer of ’01 when I was totally incoherent.
Go to amazon.com and get a copy of weaklazyliar’s “Yesterday Night.” It’s very good, very delicate (in a not at all annoying way) stuff, and you deserve it, you know you do. The work they’re doing now on the new CD is not only amazing and another step forward, but is also balls-y as hell, because of how they’re going about it. You can visit their site to get a sense of what they’re trying to do and how they’re doing it, and I suppose at some point they’ll really spell it out for everyone, but it really seems to be coming together in an amazing way.
Yeah, yeah, I’m shutting up now.