we're almost there...again

candyaudioline's going at it once more. the past few gigs have been quite splendid specially the last one at 70's bistro where we did 10 songs stripped down. yes, no effects. next time, we'll try playing with acoustic guitars, an electric bass and drums using brush sticks.

i've been very happy with what's happening with us lately. for one, the two new members, dennis and kel have been showing great interest in the band and in the songs. in fact, there was a time during one of our practice sessions wherein the two jammed some of the songs for almost an hour and a half while waiting for me and ayn who got stuck up somewhere because of very heavy rains.

another reason for my being pleased is that we are just four songs short of being able to play the entire candyaudioline catalogue. this is very rare because as far as i can remember, there wasn't a single steady line-up that could perform an entire exsisting candy-catalogue during their respective period.

this line-up has also given new life to some of candyaudioline's older stuff. songs like "flaming walls", "all smiles", "can't sleep", "we've been there", "painful", "out of fuel", "if i could" and specially "nearby town" have been given a fresh approach without compromising their original essence and beauty. actually, all of these songs was released as an 8 track album on cassette called "paint your silver smile". after which i kept the master and was planning to release it on cd as "alone again at last" but decided to ditch the idea because of... yup you guessed it... line-up change... now because the songs have become fresh again i'm planning to record it once more. i'm still thinking if i'm going to add 2 more songs (old one's - i've yet to demo it to my bandmates - that was supposed to be included in "paint your silver smile" but didn't made the cut because the line-up at that time couldn't put up a decent version of those songs) or just to release it in it's original 8 track form. we'll just have to wait and see.

other songs that were improved are "waste my time", "pretend that we're smart", "felt so fine", "sad inside", "something wrong" and "better view".

just four more songs... i'm keeping my hopes high once more... we're almost there... again.