Need to finish tracking guitars… but it wasn’t happening. Sometimes things need to marinade for a bit, ya know? Songwriting happens in the most random places, like u’re at the grocery store and that thing that wasn’t working out last week suddenly makes sense. I think Keith Richard described it as “putting your antennae up”. Which is essentially a waiting game…

Soundgarden reunion. Ummm… yes please.

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First a millenium, and now a decade. Man where does all the time go? Is it stored away in a celestial attic somewhere, along with yearbooks, old vinyl, and moth-balled sweaters? I hope so, that way I can climb up there later and lose myself for a couple hours.

It’s rainy in L.A., and suddenly inspiration is everywhere. Might sound ridiculous to say, but great weather makes writing songs a bit harder… unless you’re Jimmy Buffet, I guess.

But most of us prolly don’t mind a little rain… puts you in your own head, makes you more aware of the movie that’s playing in front of your eyes, releases your ‘inner Cobain’.

We’re all getting old… and so are Bono and Edge. But you know what?— they still know how to put on a great show. Me and 95,999 other folks concur on this matter

People sometimes wonder how songs are created… like where does the music or the lyric come from? And as cliche as it sounds, most of the time it’s some little thought you have over the course of a day, year, decade that apparently *must* become a song.

And then other days, you’re given the privelege of observing the poetry of modern life. Some small event triggers a chain reaction and all of a sudden your muse is calling you. I’m fairly certain that being stuck behind this douchebag in rush hour traffic wasn’t some random coincidence…

Throws’ second single ‘My Sugar’ drops today…. rawk.

Every band is a little man behind a curtain. in some cases the metaphor is less metaphorical. Anyway, we thought it might be a cool little thing to show how we go from silence to song…. take you behind our little curtain; have you meet the little man.

Throws music usually begins on an acoustic guitar or similar thing. A few words here and there, a melody, a couple chords. And over a (sometimes torturous) process of rehearsing, demo-ing, and finally recording… the song takes shape. And eventually, years later… we can barely remember how it started. Some songs come easily, and you love them for it. Others are a fight… a struggle to not give in and simply do the “easy” thing. On the other hand, sometimes the “easy” thing is the best thing. Understand the dilemma?

So over the next few weeks, we’ll be blogging or “vlogging” about a song that will be on the new record. We’re just about to get into the studio with it, so stay tuned for more pieces of this puzzle.

“The first rock n roll record took eight hours to make. The next one took even longer.” ~George Harrison

Can’t imagine how many kids wanted a red leather jacket (with a zillion zippers) for Halloween. Can’t even count how many messy bedrooms were wall-papered by a white pimp suit, jheri curl, and of course– a tiger cub.

There was a time when we all shared in the same ups and downs. We all waited patiently for our favorite television shows, MTV videos, the Top40 countdown. It was communal consciousness. It made us all humans, Americans, kids, or whatever identity we’d chosen for ourselves.

As a child, visiting family halfway across the world— my cousins and I would re-enact the ‘Beat It’ video…. it was essentially the only thing we had in common, trapped in that sweltering summer heat. Because even over there, everybody knew all the words.

Now we only share the little pieces…the Tweets of our lives. There are so many voices, images, and ideas that while we are awash in choices and freedom, we rarely come together to meet in the same moment.

He was a moment that lasted nearly 40 years. And almost anyone born after after 1960 was a part of it. Probably the last, or one of the last times we’ll all share so much together, for so long.

Someday in the future, it’ll be 40 years since he went away. And I’ll be an old man. But I’m guessing I’ll still ‘Rock With You’. Rest now, friend.

TazzyStar of Sepia Mutiny fame recently sat down for a chat with Adit. Check out the post, or read the entire interview here