unexpected gift

Played our brains out again this weekend, 6 shows between Friday night and Sunday night, more than 6 hours on the mic, the voice was shot by the end. One more thing I love about playing in Second Life is we can play as much as is physically possible.

Our Sunday night shows at Echo Echo are a lot of fun, there's always a great bunch there, but the real treat for us is teaming up every week with our pal DJ Jocelyn Sands. She told me the theme last night was going to be cover songs and SL homegrown music, and did I have any recordings of Friendly Fire doing any covers? It was slim pickings, but I managed to fiind a bad cut of us doing "Suffragette City", and a better track of us doing "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" an old Scottish drinking song by Sir Harry Lauder.

I spot checked the beginnings and endings of the files before sending to Jocelyn. What I forgot about was that at the end of "Wee Deoch-an-Doris" we were fooling around and did a fake barroom thing with clanking bottles and hooting and hollering in the background. Included in that montage was our old dog Harley barking. We had to put Harley down last November, just before Thanksgiving, one of the hardest days of my life. I did not expect to hear him barking on that track, hit me right between the eyes and I choked up. I went in to warn the Missus about it, so when we heard it later we'd be prepared for it. Didn't matter, we cried like little kids. It was good though, so great to hear him, and you can hear in his bark the fun he was having. I am really happy we have that recording. I sure miss the big goof.