Live from the Struggle

     To follow up on my last post, another one has bit the dust.  I have lost another family member, and I miss her.  It is quite the trek through this valley, I must say!  But I try to chalk it up as another log in the fire that is burning under my... tushy ;)  It reminds me of when Scobra was working on the Pat's Justice album, Live From The Struggle.  We used to say it all the time while it was being recorded, 'Live from the struggle, that's why I gotta hustle' as he said.  We lost 5 people in the making of that album, some of which are even recorded on it.  The single on that album, "Scream and Shout" was a labor of love written and recorded in their honor.  And yet what a beautiful mark to leave behind, a song, a word, an action recording a singular moment in time.
    So I am still striving to do my part, and leave my mark - as mortality is all too real to me at the moment.  But even as this chapter (or album one might say...) is coming to a sonic-sensual close, another one is already a few paragraphs in.  Scobra and I are not only getting very excited about the next album (and believe me, there are songs written and recorded for it already) but we are doing some work on the soundtracks for a few feature films that are in production as well.  It is wonderful to be working with LA again (not that we ever really stopped) and also to be working with such wonderful people in an industry that has so few of them.  Sorry, but that's just the truth.  -If you think music has megalomaniacs, go make a film!  But happily, the folks that we are working with are dear friends, with sound minds and hearts... and ears that like the sound of RTB!              
     All in all, I'm still slogging along... dancing too though!  I'll admit, I'm vacillating between the two right now.  But the dance of life is returning to me, and I'm happy to be taking part :)

-Dion