Although, my experience when I`ve been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I`m too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you`re halfway away from it.
Actually, I`ve done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you`re already committed to dates. I`m just sort of putting out feeler...