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But your hotel room, but your neighbor's hotel room. Someone was thrown out of the room about 15 minutes ago, so it's quiet now. Except for some howling, painful howling, that may or may not happen during the course of this conversation. It's really hard when you are next to a domestic squabble or fight or something.
What do you do? Are they just having a bad fight? Are they just yelling? Is everyone okay?
I have a few theories about what's going on next door, but it didn't involve violence. There was no violence. It sounds like no. It was a very loud.
I mean, emotional abuse as well. I'm just saying. I would say with these two, it seemed like it was going to be a two-way street. Open, two-way.
They were just really... Hashing it out? Really hashing it out, but one of them is now gone. Gotcha.
So we are seizing on this opportunity. I'm spending the last hours of the tour here in a hotel room. I'm going to go to the airport in Denver and get on a flight and fly home back to you. I can't wait.
Yes, when you're listening to this mini music Monday, friends and fans and family, Lou will be home. He will be in Massachusetts. He'll be back. Who knows what he'll be doing.
He might be just laying in bed. He might be taking a shower. He might be looking for something to eat in the kitchen. I will be in my comfort corner.
Oh. Trying to think of the things to do in the order to do them. Yeah, we have a to-do list for next coming week, actually. We have some things to do.
One of the things is we'll just mention one, but it's a pretty big one, is that we are going to be doing our first live Raw impressions show. We were asked by a really cool local band called Homebody to be an opener for them this coming Saturday, August 12, Interners Falls to do kind of like a live mini music Monday, like a real short set, but we talk and we do a couple songs. So we're excited and nervous and we're going to do our best. I'm going to work on some new content, some new songs for the performance.
Confident that I have enough time to do it, so I'm like, it's going to happen. Yeah. I was surprised, Adele, that you wanted to take this. This is a big step doing it live.
Like going out there, you can have a microphone. Yeah, it is. You know. I've never really done that before.
I mean, I've been on stage before, but not like this. Not as the master of ceremonies for the 20 minutes that we'll be doing this performance. I'm putting a lot on you. There's a lot of expectation for you to cradle this performance and to bring it to the people because I'm going to be playing and singing.
I don't know. It's wrong. Pressions with Lou Barlow and Adele Barlow. So you know.
I could end up. We're doing it together. I could very well end up rolling, rolling around in the grass in front of the stage. Well, that's a good one.
Yeah. It's always going to be us. We're going to be the first opener and then amazing father, daughter duo, Rockin Puppies, and then ending out, closing out the show with Homebody. So we will put, there's probably like a link or something to it.
And we'll find that. We'll put that information in the show description. So if you're in Western Mass and you're curious, you want to see us, Rockin Puppies or Homebody, come on down. It's free.
It's free. So anyway, that's one of our big things we're working on this week. Yep. And I'm anticipating a visit from John Davis as we put some more elements onto our LP in progress.
That's not until that's not until like the 14th. That's the following. Yeah. You know, you do have to kind of prep for that too.
We've visited this couple of weeks. Yeah. A lot of prepping. It's going to happen to happen.
That's funny. You say that. And it's like a year ago, you know, when your iPhone memories. Yep.
And a year ago, John Davis was with us and it was really nice. I have pictures of him and Izzy and you playing board games in the living room. And that was really amazing. This LP we're working on is taking, because we're working on it in little bits and pieces.
And it's just taking a, yeah, a very long time. I've never worked on something over with someone else over a period like this. It's a, it's an interesting challenge. But I really, I think we kind of turned a corner recently.
So I'm kind of excited about that. So I'm excited to get John back into my orbit. And so that school, in the meantime, I have, I recorded a song for mini music Monday. The day that I did at 3 a.m.
Mr. Jones had breakfast at Tiffany's. I also recorded a new version of an older song of mine that I had kind of rediscovered on our solo tour, the Barla Family General Tour featuring Lou Solo. I discovered that playing it like a half step up, like playing it higher somehow seemed to add a little bit of an emotional edge to it that was, that I was missing.
So which is maybe that's true. Maybe it's not, but we're going to listen to it right now. Right now. I'm trying to decide I'm scared of, I'm out to touch the ground.
It's hard beneath and they won't back down inside. They'll learn that I'll burn me, project rejection. Can't you see how I protected you? And I expect and respect for all you've heard.
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Does it? Do I sound strange doing it higher or do you think it's like a good spot for it? Well, let me explain what that was. That song is repeat from Brace the Wave.
There's to me because I know you home, but I feel like there's a feeling in the recorded version that feels very immediate with that song. And then this almost had a little bit of like a wisdom or distance and not a bad way in a kind of a cool way, like a little more of like when you step back and you're able to look at something from afar and see it in a new light. So I enjoyed that. Does that make any sense to you?
It does. I guess there would be. There's something about that song I really I really like. Like I really like singing it.
I like I like the fact that I like the concept of the song being repeat is that like we learn similar lessons over and over and over again. Like an early collaboration with us actually was working on that video together. We came up with the video concept and then I think I was like, yeah, I was pregnant with Izzy very early, very early, like maybe nine or ten weeks. We were out in LA because I was there for I was wasn't I doing some crazy combination of solo shows and dinosaur shows?
Yes, we went out there for both. I think we did a tour where you were doing your solo. It was just you and me and the spawn of itty itty itty itty is it in my body. And then yeah, you know what that does sound right.
I think there was a couple of dyno shows in there or maybe I came home and then you continued on a dyno to I don't remember, but that sounds all kind of correct. But we were in California up and down the coast of California. Yep. And we were staying in Glendale.
I had all these guitars and things that I was carrying and kind of seeing in the video. Oh, it's a beautiful video and our friend Adam Harding shot it. If we say so ourselves, it's a pretty good like it's a beautiful video. You know, I'll just say it.
Yeah, it was fun. I mean, it was a fun concept when we came up with it and then we filmed it in our hotel room in Glendale and kind of damn. We love Glendale, everyone. Okay, shout out to Glendale, California.
You just know he's in our heart. But yeah, so Adam, why I think he was like, was he still living there? Yeah, he was living there. Yeah, he was living there.
And so we picked him up and brought him to the hotel and did the video together. And we'll have a link to that. It's really, like I said, it's great. So he actually had me play this guitar, a silver tone guitar, which is sort of this cheap guitar from the 50s or 60s.
And he says, and it could be true that at one point it was either played or owned by Kurt Cobain. So there was some sort of history behind the silver tone guitar that I play in the video. That's kind of cool. Mm.
And that's some lore. Lore. Those are more. The guitar riff in the video or in the song, the guitar riff in the recorded version of the song and also the version that I play is I lifted the guitar riff from Jay's guitar riff from one of my songs.
It comes from the studio recording of Imagination Blind. Jay had added this guitar line. And then when I did, I did repeat, I recorded it. I recorded it and it came out and then I realized after it was already released at the guitar line, I lifted the guitar line directly from Jay's guitar line for one of my songs.
Wow. So I don't, I've always, you know, I've wondered out loud about this before. Like, what is the level? Where did I break the law?
Where's the law broke? Where's the front? I don't know. It just sounds more like a little, um, sounds like just like a little map.
You just went from A to B to C back to A. Well, it's kind of interesting if I think about it, actually, because the song Imagination Blind is also about just kind of getting on with things and relearning things and reestablishing. You know, it was a lot about like my relationship with Jay and Dinosaur Junior and the sort of evolving nature of that and how, you know, just kind of not letting go of a relationship. And it actually, you know, somehow evolving, you know, like evolving through these.
So I guess maybe lifting the guitar line was a way that I almost subconsciously attached the two songs and the concepts of both of them. But I like that. Well, I hope y'all enjoy the vid and the song. And if you are in a Western Mass this Saturday, come on out to Turner's Falls.
We're going to be in that park. It's like an outdoor pavilion. 630 PM. There's going to be a lot of bubble machines, blank bubbles around kids laughing, not unity park, the other park that's near Salvation Army and food city and stuff.
Abish on hard work. Right next to Abish on hardware. So yes. It's free event.
Come on out and be kind.