Thursday, January 12, 2006

New Stuff

If you follow The Erics site you will already know that we are rehearsing again. Its been a long time, plus with Sam's illness it was good just to get us all there and ready to play!

When you're an aging covers band, choosing material to do is very important. The Erics have always tried to do stuff that we like and can try to believe in, and if the audience love it too, then thats a bonus. So we have started work on Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' and Queens 'Now I'm Here' both are sounding great and although not unique on the local covers scene, there are not that many bands doing them.

The same cannot be said for anything by the Kaiser Chiefs! Everyone is playing 'I Predict a Riot'. We will be joining them as we love the track. The pressure is then on to make it a standout performance and to inject some Ericsness in to it. This is difficult and doesnt always come off. It was the same with Vertigo. Everybody does (did) it, we tried to take it to another level but ended up just playing it too fast (a common failing of mine I do confess). However, eventually we sorted it out and ended up with something which goes down really well live and seems to aviod the 'standard' tag. Lets hope we can do the same with 'I predict'.

We are also working on 'Ant Music' and 'Times like These' (foo fighters) plus there will be some stuff coming back from past set lists. What will see the light of day first is anyones guess, but is is great to be playing again. In a band its the shared experience thats the thing, when The Erics get working positively in either the live setting or in working out new stuff, the buzz is wonderful.

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