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From Tracy Santa: Little known fact: sometimes rehearsal is the most fun of all. Everything’s still possible when you’re rehearsing. Nothing’s locked in. It’s all play, no show, big laughs. If you’re not screwing up, you’re not really trying. Everyone play their instruments with a drumstick this time? Why not—let’s see what happens. Writing Center work is like an endless band rehearsal—all process, all possibility, all the time. Nothing’s ever really done—writing centers are where you can afford to play with writing, writing with a future and a past, but mostly a present. Writing center work (and rehearsal) is about being there. I’ve been directing writing centers for 22 years, currently at Colorado College, but before that I spent an awful lot of time playing music, releasing much of it overseas: 84 Rooms Instant Sunshine LP (Lolita FR 1985), the Idlewiles “Room as High” 7” (Shadowline NETH 1987), the Tracy Santa Signify Your Mind EP (Exile GER 1988) and “Lo-Fi Cowboy 7” (Corduroy AUS 1998). I laid down my old guitar for a number of years, teaching, raising kids, finishing a PhD. But I picked it up a few years ago and spent a day or two recording a CD (Pill Pauper, 2011) with my battery mate Michael Salkind as the Wild Hares. Our song here, “Everything But Me,” is from a subsequent session. If it sounds kind of like a rehearsal tape to you, I’m happy—it means we’re still a work in progress.
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