They're Not Dolls. They're Figurines.

It’s my first day at home and already I miss Shane’s studio. The smell of incense. Dim lights. Rolling Stones in the bathroom. Spending the day marveling at Shane, Steven, Chris and Ken making my pretty downright OK music a whole heckuva lot better.

And then there were the dolls figurines. Lots of ’em.

The Monkees. The head of Dwight Schrute. And a “figurine we can believe in,” the box said. How could we not make something, um, special in such good company?

These guys helped us wrestle more than a few squirrelly background vocals into submission (along with Andrew Osenga, who made a cameo and a quick $5 for singing/arranging on one tune. That’s what happens when you drop out of college, kids. Stay in school.)

Ah, and then there’s the King. Beside him, yes, that is a picture of french fries. It’s all part of some bizarre Christian offshoot thing Shane’s into these days: lots of chanting, sacrificing fatty foods to three paintings of Elvis hourly, sojourning to Memphis every year, and producing hits for Christian radio.

Yes, it’s all very strange. Strangely beautiful.

And I miss it today.

There’s no Elvis in my house. No figurines, unless Barbie counts…and when does she ever? No incense or hip magazines. Just me twiddling my thumbs waiting until I get to go play at Shane’s hear the final mixes of the songs we recorded this week.

25 comments on “They’re Not Dolls. They’re Figurines.”

Kristie says:

fun indeed. But my seratonin levels would be ALL messed up if I sat in a room that dark for two days straight…I’d have to go for therapy and sing some songs in an elementary school with brightly colored hallways or something.

I joined the music advisory panel @ KLove yesterday, just so I could use my spiritual gift of nagging to change the world and get them to play my favorite indie artist.

I commit to type “Please, please, please, please, please play some new Shaun Groves music” in the comment box on every KLove survey until I hear you “Sing, Sing, Singing” in my car. And I’ll keep asking all my Facebook friends to do the same.

Keep singing!

Shaun Groves says:

Thanks for the enthusiastic support, Kristie! BUT, hold off on pushing “Sing” to radio, please. There’s a process. Radio stations generally can’t just play whatever listeners ask for. I’m having a radio promoter give the song a listen, make suggestions on creating a radio-friendly mix if he thinks it has a chance of getting played. I’ll then have some friends in radio hear it and if they think it has a shot I have a plan for promoting it to stations.

At THAT point your enthusiasm will be very key.

I’ll keep you all posted.

Thanks, Kristie! Thankful to have you in my corner.

NancyTyler says:

THERE ARE MONKEES BOBBLEHEADS?

I’ve been congratulating myself for not shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday because there was nothing I needed or wanted, even at bargain prices and you show me MONKEES BOBBLEHEADS?

I, the biggest Monkees fan of my generation. The memorizer of every lyric. The unofficial fiance of Davy Jones at age 5. The constant wearer of a Mike Nesmith knit hat in elementary school. The maker of the “We Love You, Monkees!!!! xoxo” sign that Davy and Mike pointed at, at the Philadelphia stop of their third comeback/farewell tour in the 1980s.

Monkees bobbleheads. I just don’t think I can concentrate now for the rest of the day.