Nintendo Power: The Lost Pages
Coffee's ready. Sweet.
I've been inspired to start using this again because I've been reading Get In The Van by Henry Rollins. It's really interesting to go through and read about what touring was like for hardcore bands in the beginning, and it's even interesting for me to go through ancient entries on here and see how my mindset has progressed over the years, too. A fair amount has happened since my last entries, and years from now it would've been cool for me to go back and read about it, but I've been a slacker.
Starting from where I last left off: Playing with Steven and Tito did not work out at the time. We decided not to have Steven come out again for a number of reasons. Mainly, he would've preferred to write his own stuff as opposed to learning everything I had already written, and we already liked/were used to me singing and the way it all was set up. The point of me trying to start this band was for me to have a channel for my own voice for once, aurally and lyrically. If we ever decided we wanted a stand alone frontman, I think I would rather just do it myself and find someone else to play guitar.
Tito worked out briefly. He picked things up pretty quickly and we recorded what was supposed to be our first demo with him. But at the time, he didn't possess his own phone, reliable access to an automobile, nor consciousness during the daytime. It got to the point where we had gone about a month without practicing with him and barely communicating. I had to send him a myspace message to tell him we were going to have replace him because I couldn't get a hold of him any other way. It was lame.
We found someone to play bass. We ended up playing a few shows. No one noticed. We weren't really digging the whole Life In The Woods deal anymore, so we ended it.
I ran into Tito in the mall about 6 months after we had kicked him out and a week or so after we ended Life In The Woods. He was always pretty understanding about the whole thing. Turns out he now has his own phone and is usually awake during the day. I invited him to come back out and jam with us. He picked everything back up very quickly. It was like he never left.
Within recent weeks, Tito had his pal Torey come out so we could hear how things sounded with a second guitar. Holy cow. Amazing. So rich. If you had listened to us with one guitar and then listened to us with two, after the second listen you would have exclaimed "Oh! Now I get it!" It just makes sense. We've finished rearranging Songwriting For Dummies and The Shark That Ate My Friend, and now we're working on overhauling Best Friends Forever, which had been on the sidelines for a while. Emotional Knapsack is up next. I'm stoked to be playing with such rad dudes. We're four easy-going fellas coming together to create some pretty metal pop-punk songs. We just need to come up with the right name.
I've been inspired to start using this again because I've been reading Get In The Van by Henry Rollins. It's really interesting to go through and read about what touring was like for hardcore bands in the beginning, and it's even interesting for me to go through ancient entries on here and see how my mindset has progressed over the years, too. A fair amount has happened since my last entries, and years from now it would've been cool for me to go back and read about it, but I've been a slacker.
Starting from where I last left off: Playing with Steven and Tito did not work out at the time. We decided not to have Steven come out again for a number of reasons. Mainly, he would've preferred to write his own stuff as opposed to learning everything I had already written, and we already liked/were used to me singing and the way it all was set up. The point of me trying to start this band was for me to have a channel for my own voice for once, aurally and lyrically. If we ever decided we wanted a stand alone frontman, I think I would rather just do it myself and find someone else to play guitar.
Tito worked out briefly. He picked things up pretty quickly and we recorded what was supposed to be our first demo with him. But at the time, he didn't possess his own phone, reliable access to an automobile, nor consciousness during the daytime. It got to the point where we had gone about a month without practicing with him and barely communicating. I had to send him a myspace message to tell him we were going to have replace him because I couldn't get a hold of him any other way. It was lame.
We found someone to play bass. We ended up playing a few shows. No one noticed. We weren't really digging the whole Life In The Woods deal anymore, so we ended it.
I ran into Tito in the mall about 6 months after we had kicked him out and a week or so after we ended Life In The Woods. He was always pretty understanding about the whole thing. Turns out he now has his own phone and is usually awake during the day. I invited him to come back out and jam with us. He picked everything back up very quickly. It was like he never left.
Within recent weeks, Tito had his pal Torey come out so we could hear how things sounded with a second guitar. Holy cow. Amazing. So rich. If you had listened to us with one guitar and then listened to us with two, after the second listen you would have exclaimed "Oh! Now I get it!" It just makes sense. We've finished rearranging Songwriting For Dummies and The Shark That Ate My Friend, and now we're working on overhauling Best Friends Forever, which had been on the sidelines for a while. Emotional Knapsack is up next. I'm stoked to be playing with such rad dudes. We're four easy-going fellas coming together to create some pretty metal pop-punk songs. We just need to come up with the right name.