"Changes"

So what have YOU been up to?  Me, plenty!  This summer and fall were seasons of change indeed for me and my family.

First and foremost, August 11, 2001 was a truly special day for me. For that day, my daughter was born. Abigail Courtney Lippincott was delivered at 1:07 AM at the Vitrua Hospital in Mount Holly. She was 7lbs 9 oz and the most beautiful thing I have seen in my whole life. Mother and baby ended up fine after the childbirth, and I cant stop thinking about how fortunate we are to have everything go fine. A couple of days later we were home and the deluge of friends and family started up. Little Abby is quite a star, and she handles the attention and the circus atmosphere with poise that makes her daddy proud.

In the midst of all of this, my side project cover band, Drop Dead Sexy, started to really take off. It was indeed a busy summer for us as we ended up playing at least four nights a week all summer, sharing stages with some of the biggest cover bands in the industry. In fact, it was kind of funny that the night before Abby was born, I sprained my ankle at a show while loading out; so I was all taped up in the delivery room. Not many people can say they had 19 shows, a sprained ankle and a baby in one month!

One month after Abby’s birth, was of course the tragedy in NYC and Washington. Incidents like this are sometimes good for musical inspiration….but after those long days I found myself more numb than anything. How could I possibly write words that could put all of those events into perspective? WHO could? I haven’t spent a whole day in front of the television since the LA riots. Yet we were all there, watching in silence. Everything to say, nothing to say.

Yet out of the ashes rose the American spirit. Flags everywhere. I remember riding down to Maryland for a show, and on EVERY overpass on 95 there was a flag or a poster or some sort of  homemade monument. People stopped using terms like African-American and Native American….they just said American. Amen.

For the first time since my birth, I felt that the whole country was Together Alone.

As far as my music is concerned, I haven’t recorded as much as I’d like to, but I am writing again. Abigail and I have daily writing sessions in the living room, in between feedings, burping sessions and walks out to the cul de sac. I’ve documented a lot of ideas on the Dictaphone, and am looking forward to some serious studio time in early January.

So things have changed. Some are obvious to the human eye, the others you’d need to look inside the human spirit. But remember, never stop looking.

-Scott

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