leo the gentle lion
yesterday we went to alex's to work on music and only played original stuff (exept for autumn leaves at twice the tempo, which was terrible), including keith's brilliant composition "naked man," which he wrote instantaneously on an acoustic guitar one day when someone said he should play a naked man. after that we picked up antonio at a mcdonalds, and he got a tattoo of a lion's head on his arm. when keith saw it he pointed out how gentle and friendly it looked and kept referring to it as Leo. it really is kind of friendly looking, especially the mouth, i wish i had a picture of it. we went back to alex's, jammed on naked man, and then antonio decided he'd name a phrase for each person and they'd have to play out that phrase, kind of like how naked man was created except there'd be a phrase for each instrument. stuff like "burnt baby hair", "naked squirrel", "snow tube," and "milky fart in a deaf home" didnt really go together, so he just named a phrase for each song.
eventually he said we should play a song about "the queen of england having a foursome" and each instrument would be a part of the foursome, myself being the queen. i was playing fanfares while they played a really bad porn groove, eventually there was a flute breakdown on my keyboard, a part that persistantly played a terrible chord over and over, a few appearances of that anthem that starts out "all you need is love" which i luckily figured out on the spot, and a really terrible polka--all of which inevitably caused alex's insane mother to come downstairs in uberbitch mode and scream at us to "cut that SHIT out!!!" because she's trying to sleep. but the best part of all of this is that alex was recording the whole thing, including her screaming, which is really the only way that thing could've ended. i'm not sure if we'll ever be able to go over to alex's again though, and he has the drum set.
eventually he said we should play a song about "the queen of england having a foursome" and each instrument would be a part of the foursome, myself being the queen. i was playing fanfares while they played a really bad porn groove, eventually there was a flute breakdown on my keyboard, a part that persistantly played a terrible chord over and over, a few appearances of that anthem that starts out "all you need is love" which i luckily figured out on the spot, and a really terrible polka--all of which inevitably caused alex's insane mother to come downstairs in uberbitch mode and scream at us to "cut that SHIT out!!!" because she's trying to sleep. but the best part of all of this is that alex was recording the whole thing, including her screaming, which is really the only way that thing could've ended. i'm not sure if we'll ever be able to go over to alex's again though, and he has the drum set.