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[Matt]

can't wait to hear 'em. Many thanks, Chris!

[Matt]

also, I'm dead serious: that 'Math Homework Helpers' tune has a GREAT groove to it. Use that in a 'real' song and you should get some great results. I can imagine you cutting a killer lead over that groove, bro.

[Matt]

To the rest of you BDRites: get off of your duff and listen to these tunes. We've got a genuine talent in our midst.

[Chris Miller]

Man, thanks! You and Bobby and Nathan and Tim (and everyone else)know how to make a guit-picker feel great! I wish we had music fans like you guys in B-More, we probably wouldn't have been languishing in relative obscurity for 11 years as it's been.

[Matt]

Chris: When the wife unit and I finally do our East Coast trip*, I'll try and arrange it so that we're in Baltimore when you're having a gig. That'd be a really fun stop.

And YES, Baltimore WILL be on the itinerary...after watching 'The Wire', my wife is obsessed with the idea of visiting your city.

*hopefully within the next couple of years

[Ed Hocken]

To the rest of you BDRites: get off of your duff and listen to these tunes. We've got a genuine talent in our midst.

He's right, folks.

[Chris Miller]

And YES, Baltimore WILL be on the itinerary...after watching 'The Wire', my wife is obsessed with the idea of visiting your city.

Just a heads up, it's really dirty.

[Ed Hocken]

HA, my sister is going to MICA. How's the neighborhood around there?

[Chris Miller]

That's right next to where we used to have a rehearsal space! It's TERRIBLE. Exactly where she's at is the artsy fartsy district. One block south is a demilitarized zone.

[Ed Hocken]

One block south and it's a demiliterized zone, huh?

So it'll be like USC. *shrug*

BTW, where what neighborhood was MICA in again?

[Chris Miller]

The neighborhood is called Station North, because it's near Penn Station and North Avenue. It's hipster central until you get to Coppin State College, which makes Oakland look like Beverly Hills.

[Bobby Bear]

He's right, folks.

In a big, big way.

Man, thanks! You and Bobby and Nathan and Tim (and everyone else)know how to make a guit-picker feel great!

Thanks, Chris. It's my pleasure to give you cats the credit and attention you deserve.

On a related note, may I please have some more songs, both for me and inclusion on the podcast?

[Chris Miller]

I think you might be up to date with what we have finished, actually...Did you get the last version of I Want?
We have actually 1 song to wrap up and then two more to record for the album(!).

[Chris Miller]

Realized this morning that I wrote Maryanne basically around a dream I had that was similar to Inception (the song is about being stuck inside someone elses dream), two years before I saw Inception. Weird.

The dream I had involved college campuses. Apparently, these were epicenters of mass amounts of people using mind expanding drugs in such a close clustered environment with each other, that it had created areas where you could enter a networked dream world together (in my dream, the world was called The Sanctorum). The trouble was, once you were there, you needed a guide to help you around, otherwise you may never leave the dream. I was telling the guys about this dream on the way to rehearsal one day, and thought it would make for a cool concept album. Alex came up with the name Maryanne for the guide, and he wrote the line "Walk the world of dreams with Maryanne", and we set it to a riff I wrote. I fleshed out the verse lyrics, and it went from there.

Still think it might make a cool concept album. We did write another song based on the idea, but we've since scrapped it.

[Matt]

Realized this morning that I wrote Maryanne basically around a dream I had that was similar to Inception (the song is about being stuck inside someone elses dream), two years before I saw Inception. Weird.

The dream I had involved college campuses. Apparently, these were epicenters of mass amounts of people using mind expanding drugs in such a close clustered environment with each other, that it had created areas where you could enter a networked dream world together (in my dream, the world was called The Sanctorum). The trouble was, once you were there, you needed a guide to help you around, otherwise you may never leave the dream. I was telling the guys about this dream on the way to rehearsal one day, and thought it would make for a cool concept album. Alex came up with the name Maryanne for the guide, and he wrote the line "Walk the world of dreams with Maryanne", and we set it to a riff I wrote. I fleshed out the verse lyrics, and it went from there.

Still think it might make a cool concept album. We did write another song based on the idea, but we've since scrapped it.

This could be your 'Operation: Mindcrime', Chris. Pursue it.

Also, I haven't had a chance to listen to the songs from your last few emails. I'll get on that.