Posts Tagged ‘Songwriting’

Hey guys,

Thanks for being so patient with me these last few weeks. I know I went on a hiatus, but it was much needed. Things are starting to look up for my health and my work so soon we should be 100% back to good stuff.

In the meantime I’d like to catch you up on a couple of my out of town trips.

I mentioned that I was going to San Francisco in my last post, well I came home with a whole lot of pictures and new experiences. Travis and Jane took real good care of me and I am so so thankful for all the kindness.

Then I came home for a brief 2 days and flew back to to WI to attend the Dark Songs Festival and play an in house concert at the Holiday Music Motel.

After missing my flight, forgetting my wallet, getting searched, and flying standby into Chicago unable to board the plane to Green Bay, and being transported half way to Green Bay by a kind man named Steve Smith, I finally made it to Sturgeon Bay WI around 1am missing the concert. We rescheduled for the following night, and it was fantastic.

Dark Songs commenced that Sunday. I must have written over 15 songs. It was absolutely exhilarating and I really really needed that. I spend most of my days with Charlie Cheney (www.charliecheney.com) and Noah Engh (www.thekidfantastic.com). We wrote many of the songs together and just had an all around incredible week. It felt like summer camp.

Geri X & Noah Engh

writing out rock opera

So overall, i came home feeling better with a suitcase full of good memories. Thank you Pat Macdonald (www.patmacmusic.com) and Melanie Jjane (www.melaniejane.com) for getting me up to Sturgeon Bay.

Now, we should be getting back to the normal swing of things. I will start blogging regularly. Also I will be doing some video blogging in the near future here once I figure out how to run everything.

Our calendar is pretty much filled for the rest of the year, so please please please hop over to the tour page and see where we’ll be playing and come out.
I just finished work on yet another EP which I will be releasing Nov 20th @ The Local 662 in St Petersburg FL. It will be another hand made, limited edition print, but this time around I will make it available for you guys out of state to order online and Ill ship it to you.

So to recap, Im back for good! And the new EP comes out NOVEMBER 20th! Again, lots of new songs and new artwork.

I cant really tell you guys how much it means to know you’re still out there keeping me in mind. Its always a pretty scary thing to take a break, because you don’t know if when you come back there will be anyone left to care. It feels good to know thats not the case.

Coming up soon I will be taking on a lot of new ventures but thats for another day and another blog.

Love you, stay warm.

G

Hello folks,

it’s Greg’s Birthday today so we’ve been busy cooking and boozing all day, but I did get a chance to run away for a pit from the family gathering and video record one of the new songs we are working on for the EP that comes out next month.

You can watch it here!
also you can send greg birthday wishes too at scregrock@gmail.com

<3 lil G

Geri X- Seven of Spades

Well, here we go!

Photo by James Ostrand

I am a stubborn artist, always know what I want, always have a clear vision of everything,which also makes me very difficult to deal with ha! But, I like to say, Im not a perfectionist by any means, Im just very specific. So, by the times you guys have the record in your hands, I guarantee it will look and sound exactly how I wanted it to- so you can blame me if its no good :]

Today we open the website officially , I am so excited to finally have an interactive site that I can update and post to just like FB,Twitter and Myspace. I’ve always wanted to do it, and Im not any more organized than I was last year, but now I finally learned how to do it, thanks to Rob.

Gearing up to head on tour in a few weeks here, its been pretty strange driving home from working and thinking ” hey, come next month I wont have a home to anticipate to go to”. Strange feeling. But Im not complaining, I cant wait. Most of you folks know, its the only thing I’ve wanted to do since I was 15. So, dirty, smelly,tired,ruffled,sore and happy on the road it will be in a month. We are adding so many dates my head is spinning. We’ve started posting them slowly, and we have many more to post, so please visit our tour page and check it out.

The first show will be in Orlando, and then the next day we release The Bedroom Sessions at New World Brewery in Ybor City with Marksmen, Josh Roberts and The Hinges and The STill Voice. Tickets are $8 at the door and it is 21+ ( :[ sorry to our underage fans, I will play for you guys soon in Tampa Bay, until then you can buy the record right here on our website).

Well, I still have a day job so I am off to work now, but I will be back tomorrow with more things to share.

Thank you guys for reading

Geri