must be doing something right

in spite of regularly shaking the foundation of my three-apartment home by way of rehearsals in our band's basement practice space, one of my neighbors went out of his way the other night to tell me that what we're playing sounds great, and that he plans on being there whenever we play out (soon).

considering that we're honing our performances of the same handful of songs, i take that as a great compliment. i think i'd hate us by now if i was in his shoes.

it's hard not to be excited. we've been working at this for some time, and now that we have vocalists in the mix, our songs are beginning to take on the kind of life that our earliest cracks at them only hinted at.

plus, when one of the biggest practice kinks is that your bass player is independently increasing tempo in some spots because he is getting excited in the middle of the performance, you know you're on to something pretty special.