the story thus (near and) far…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–Act I, Scene I–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scene: the basement of a Nebraska house, rainy April afternooon, 1999. Several kids are gathered around a billiards table, others talk and joke. howie is sitting on the basement steps, strumming a guitar. –Act I, Scene II–<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scene: A coffeehouse in Lincoln the following year. A crowd of people fills the room with the hum of conversation. howie&scott take the floor with a guitar, a saxophone, and a set of bongos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n howie<\/em>: You want to play DMB or Foo Fighters? –Act I, Scene III–<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scene: A college dorm room, spring 2001. Scott walks in. howie is seated on the floor with a yellow legal pad in front of him. –Intermission–<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two records (“Bigger Sounds From Fewer Folks,” “near and far”) are released during this time. h&s play gig after gig<\/a> in southeast Nebraska. –Act II, Scene I–<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scene: A sweltering night in midsummer 2003. Dim light outlines two figures, one seated behind a drum kit, the other poised towards the set, guitar in hand. Feedback fills the room. ProTools is trying to keep up with the sound. –Act II, Scene II–<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scene: Beginning January 2004. The metamorphisis to rock band from jazzy coffeehouse duo complete, h&s release “signs.comets” – two albums in one package – and play its songs for all who will listen. Speaking from the stage… —to be continued…<\/em>—<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" the story thus (near and) far… –Act I, Scene I– Scene: the basement of a Nebraska house, rainy April afternooon, 1999. Several kids are gathered around a billiards table, others talk and joke. howie is sitting on the basement steps, strumming a guitar. Scott: I could put some sweet saxophone on top of that, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfuriousrecords.com\/hands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Scott<\/em>: I could put some sweet saxophone on top of that, you know.
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Scott<\/em>: Dave.
howie<\/em>: That’s the most you’ve said in weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
howie<\/em>: Guess what.
Scott<\/em>: What?
howie<\/em>: I just wrote a song.
Scott<\/em>: Cool.
howie<\/em>: That’s the most you’ve said in weeks.
Scott<\/em>: (silence)
howie<\/em>: Go get your djembe. And the soprano sax, claves, congas, radio, flute…
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howie<\/em>: You ready?
Scott<\/em>: Rocket (rock it).
howie<\/em> (singing): In the night sky, past Orion’s eye…
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howie<\/em>: I’ve always wanted people to jump and rock out to our music… can we do that tonight?<\/a>
Crowd<\/em>: Yeah! (various affirmative responses).
howie&scott<\/em>: After the countdown \/ what should I do now? \/ a new one begins…<\/p>\n\n\n\n