ADAM Masterson

A great night at The Bootleg Theatre. Great audience nice and busy for my support slot, really focussed crowd, I felt they were on every lyric and I could just go into my zone. I think the performance went well, everything went smoothly. Thankyou to Jo Arthur for having me play. He asked me to play next week too, but alas I’m headed back to NYC tomorrow. The rest of the night was fun. Joseph’s set was a blinder and we all ended up at a party in Beachwood Canyon. Heavy night but a great night.

I’d had one of those great dreamy days too. I woke up with this tune in my head, took a shower and it was still there and some word were coming through. It felt like a mantra, or a prayer. I went out to the back guest house in Venice to a quiet room, and wrote the whole thing out. The morning was outside the window everything felt clear. I didn’t reedit or redraft or reorder the verses. Just kept the whole thing as it came out and called the song ‘Love’.

This is a very new way of writing for me. Till now I’ve always felt like a pearl diver when I write songs. I gotta go down, down to pick something up, but to pick up that precious moment can take many dives, and you never know till you get to the surface whether you got your pearl. It’s a tough way of doing it, I been giving myself a hard time with this stuff for years.

I wrote the song ‘Downtown’ about this, and swore that when I finished the song, something would change. Something has changed it’s magic.

These new songs are written from a completely different place in me. A new creating. Have no idea how people are gonna take to them, I wanna know.

Have loved it here in L.A - I don’t wanna go

It’s my last night in town, I’m going to a studio tonight in downtown L.A to jam with some new friends I made out here, we’re gonna get the electric guitars out, plug in and have some fun.

Right now I’m trying to fix up. If this root beer doesn’t kill this hangover, I’m having a real beer