Teddy Price's pool house

Teddy Price's pool house is a guesthouse that becomes a songwriting workspace for Billy Dunne and Daisy Jones during the making of Aurora. Teddy gives Billy the keys and sends the two there to write while the other band members work on a new arrangement. The surviving recollections make the place significant not through its furnishings or architecture, which are not described, but through the work and choices that gather there.

A guesthouse turned into a writing room

When the band discusses how to build the album, Warren Rhodes proposes that Daisy and Billy write the songs and bring them back to the others. Teddy supports the plan decisively: he hands Billy the keys to his guesthouse and directs the pair there to begin writing. The arrangement divides the group’s labor, leaving the others to work on a new song while Daisy and Billy develop material together.

The assignment also presents Billy with a choice. Eddie Loving recalls that Billy did not want the band composing on one song without him, but also did not want Daisy writing songs without him. He could remain with the group and work on the arrangement, or go with Daisy. He chose the pool house and the collaboration.

The work inside

Billy arrives first, makes coffee, settles in, and looks through his notes to decide what to show Daisy. When she arrives, he has his notebook ready and presents his existing material. He explains that much of the album is already written and invites her to look for places where they might adjust it or fill gaps with new material she has written. The scene thus begins not with a blank page but with Billy’s prepared songs and an offer to reshape them together.

Their work can be laborious as well as productive. In one account, Billy describes hours of discussion and playing with melodies on the guitar. Daisy says none of their original lines survived into the finished song; Billy recalls refining the lyrics, the division of vocal parts, the melody, and the interplay between the two voices. Teddy eventually comes through the door and asks, “What the hell are you two still doing here? It’s almost midnight.” Billy says he had not realized how late it had become. The late hour makes visible the intensity of a session that has carried on beyond the time either collaborator noticed.

A recurring site in their collaboration

The pool house also appears in Billy’s recollection of working on a song called “For You.” He remembers Daisy wearing a black dress with thin straps and says the song concerned his sobriety for Camila Dunne, though he did not tell Daisy that directly. Instead, he presented its subject as being willing to give something up for another person. Daisy had reminded him that they had wanted to write something harder, while Billy wanted to pursue this idea first. The account places the guesthouse not only at the start of their album work but also within the continuing negotiation over what they would write and what personal meanings Billy would disclose.

Narrative significance

In the oral history, Teddy Price's pool house is remembered through separate, partial accounts: Billy’s preparations and choices, Daisy’s arrival and view of the writing, and other band members’ recollections of how the work was divided. Its narrative importance lies in this practical intimacy. Away from the group’s shared work, the guesthouse lets Billy and Daisy test lyrics, melodies, and vocal interplay together; the songs emerge through sustained exchange rather than solitary composition. The place therefore records a shift in the band’s working arrangement, while its late-night sessions show how collaboration could draw the two writers into a focused world of their own.