So Brian and I are trying to put a new band together. We’re actually actively attempting to do this now. As in we’ve put musicians-wanted ads on craigslist and in the local newsweeklies and on their respective websites. The word is on the street.

I make the point because we have been, for about two months now, “trying to put a new band together” in a less active sense. We’ve been talking about it, talking about whether we should and how we should and what we should say and so on. In the mean time we’ve been on something of a musical haitus: not yet beginning the new thing, not really pursuing the thing before the new thing.

The thing before the new thing was, essentially, a long experimental period of collaboration and exploration and whatnot, the two of us bringing different things to the table, playing different setups (blaring electrics this month, acoustic soft stuff the next, a mix of the two the month after that), and basically seeing what stuck.

And the main thing that stuck was the fact that we both miss being in a band, and miss having the freedom and energy that comes with having a couple more people really helping to drive the music along.

And so, yes: we’re getting a band together. And within 24 hours of putting up our little ad, Brian got a call from a drummer named Terry. We’re meeting with him tonight at the Tugboat brewpub, to talk a little and then, barring any raving-psychotic or irreconcilable-differences revelations, walk the two blocks to our practice space and give some music a shot.

Exciting!