Marc
To be able to write and publish this post, and I had to go back and change the tense on the first paragraph of the last post. I wish I could stay away, but I really can't. I'm just so goddamn bored. I should be busy trying to write and record songs, but most of my night has been spent in front of the television playing Worms: Armageddon and Perfect Dark with the 'mates. Why do we let ourselves get sucked into these traps? They are nothing but time-killers, and after six or seven games, its not fun at all anymore, but we stil say, "Alright, just one more and then I'm going to do something else." But the 'one more' ends up being 'two more' at the very least, and the next thing you know is that its way later than you thought it was, and you haven't accomplished a damn thing, and you feel bad about it. Shit, listen to me whine about my stress-less life.
As I said, I should've been working on songs. I actually got a call today from one of the females that I gave my number to last weekend to see about singing (and hopefully playing guitar) for me. I don't know anything about her at all, except for the fact that we discussed music and she said she could 'play guitar and sing'. I don't want to get my hopes up if she can't, and its not a gender issue either. I've met plenty of dudes who claimed that they could play guitar or bass, or whatev, and they just plain old fucking sucked. I'm hoping that her adding the 'and sing' is a good sign, and that it means, at the very least, that she can do one somewhat. So, I'm going to record the three songs I have semi-done tomorrow afternoon, and hopefully meet her at the bar tomorrow night. Would making up tabs for the chord changes be too dorky a move on my part? Arg! This is so nerveracking.
Each band I've been in has been almost entirely different from the one before. Note:
Nevenu -- 1995-1998: A straight up rock outfit, with some hippy tendencies primarily due to the two hippies that either sang or played guitar. I was the bass player, and didn't know what I was doing. It was a learning process. We wrote some okay songs, but I think that if we played together now, we could write some really killer stuff. Word has it that our old singer is in talks/has had talks with Interscope Records about getting signed. Fuck if I know if that's true or not, but I kind of hope it is. My dad never thought he could sing, but I've never held a stage with someone who knew how to control the crowd so well.
Straight Legged Kick -- 1998-2001: This was the pop-punk outfit of my highschool fantasies. I truly liked almost all of the songs we ended up playing after the first two years of our existence. We all came from different backgrounds and musical settings, so it took us a while, and a few line-up changes, to find our voice. Would you believe me if I told you we started out as a ska band with Scooter playing trombone? Probably not, right? I swear its true. But don't ever tell anyone. This is probably going to be the band that I lie to my grandchildren about. I'll tell them that we went on "tour" and we played in Chicago and everyone loved us, which everyone knows isn't true. It was fun. It was an experience, and I got to do it with some of my best friends. We broke up, but we all still live and socialize together. Alright.
Naginata -- 2000-2001: I guess that since 3/4 of Naginata made up 3/5 of Straight Legged Kick, you could say we were similar, but I'd beg to tell you that I disagree. We started this band (we being Matt, Rick, and myself) to kind of purge ourselves of the inner hardcore riffs that were frustrating Scooter to no end. He sings like a girl, and he didn't feel comfortable having a mammoth backing wall of noise. I can't blame him. This band got me screaming more for Naginata, but screaming less for SLK, and we got to work with Jared, the guy who helps run DEADPAN ALLEY. It was loud, abrasive, chaotic, and tons of fucking fun. People around town actually liked this band. Whereas SLK songs were three minute melodic gems, Naginata songs were lucky if they were two minute pieces of uncut diamonds. We would just string a bunch of parts together, and then end it all with vein-popping screams from both myself and Jared. We got sweaty, we got scary, and Jared wrote a song or two about wanting to be a vampire. I hardly ever wrote down the lyrics to my songs, because they honestly never made much sense.
Maybe I should leave now. I could keep going, but I have a feeling that the rest of the crew would hate me for it.
To be able to write and publish this post, and I had to go back and change the tense on the first paragraph of the last post. I wish I could stay away, but I really can't. I'm just so goddamn bored. I should be busy trying to write and record songs, but most of my night has been spent in front of the television playing Worms: Armageddon and Perfect Dark with the 'mates. Why do we let ourselves get sucked into these traps? They are nothing but time-killers, and after six or seven games, its not fun at all anymore, but we stil say, "Alright, just one more and then I'm going to do something else." But the 'one more' ends up being 'two more' at the very least, and the next thing you know is that its way later than you thought it was, and you haven't accomplished a damn thing, and you feel bad about it. Shit, listen to me whine about my stress-less life.
As I said, I should've been working on songs. I actually got a call today from one of the females that I gave my number to last weekend to see about singing (and hopefully playing guitar) for me. I don't know anything about her at all, except for the fact that we discussed music and she said she could 'play guitar and sing'. I don't want to get my hopes up if she can't, and its not a gender issue either. I've met plenty of dudes who claimed that they could play guitar or bass, or whatev, and they just plain old fucking sucked. I'm hoping that her adding the 'and sing' is a good sign, and that it means, at the very least, that she can do one somewhat. So, I'm going to record the three songs I have semi-done tomorrow afternoon, and hopefully meet her at the bar tomorrow night. Would making up tabs for the chord changes be too dorky a move on my part? Arg! This is so nerveracking.
Each band I've been in has been almost entirely different from the one before. Note:
Nevenu -- 1995-1998: A straight up rock outfit, with some hippy tendencies primarily due to the two hippies that either sang or played guitar. I was the bass player, and didn't know what I was doing. It was a learning process. We wrote some okay songs, but I think that if we played together now, we could write some really killer stuff. Word has it that our old singer is in talks/has had talks with Interscope Records about getting signed. Fuck if I know if that's true or not, but I kind of hope it is. My dad never thought he could sing, but I've never held a stage with someone who knew how to control the crowd so well.
Straight Legged Kick -- 1998-2001: This was the pop-punk outfit of my highschool fantasies. I truly liked almost all of the songs we ended up playing after the first two years of our existence. We all came from different backgrounds and musical settings, so it took us a while, and a few line-up changes, to find our voice. Would you believe me if I told you we started out as a ska band with Scooter playing trombone? Probably not, right? I swear its true. But don't ever tell anyone. This is probably going to be the band that I lie to my grandchildren about. I'll tell them that we went on "tour" and we played in Chicago and everyone loved us, which everyone knows isn't true. It was fun. It was an experience, and I got to do it with some of my best friends. We broke up, but we all still live and socialize together. Alright.
Naginata -- 2000-2001: I guess that since 3/4 of Naginata made up 3/5 of Straight Legged Kick, you could say we were similar, but I'd beg to tell you that I disagree. We started this band (we being Matt, Rick, and myself) to kind of purge ourselves of the inner hardcore riffs that were frustrating Scooter to no end. He sings like a girl, and he didn't feel comfortable having a mammoth backing wall of noise. I can't blame him. This band got me screaming more for Naginata, but screaming less for SLK, and we got to work with Jared, the guy who helps run DEADPAN ALLEY. It was loud, abrasive, chaotic, and tons of fucking fun. People around town actually liked this band. Whereas SLK songs were three minute melodic gems, Naginata songs were lucky if they were two minute pieces of uncut diamonds. We would just string a bunch of parts together, and then end it all with vein-popping screams from both myself and Jared. We got sweaty, we got scary, and Jared wrote a song or two about wanting to be a vampire. I hardly ever wrote down the lyrics to my songs, because they honestly never made much sense.
Maybe I should leave now. I could keep going, but I have a feeling that the rest of the crew would hate me for it.
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