A New Chapter
So, the day I never thought would come finally has. The band I've put the last 2 and a half years of my life into is about to go on stage for what is possibley, and most likely, the last time. I joined the band after playing guitar for only 3 months and I was horrible but that didn't keep us from writing songs. I've had some really good times and some really frustrating ones. O'm full of mixed emotions; I feel incomplete and displaced because this was the focus of my life for that time, while at the same time I feel a sense of relief due to the growing hostility in practices and the infrequencies in them. We went almost 9 months without thoughts of writing a new song that wasn't mainly improvised(ala the Christmas album). Justin and I had a talk about this and decided that we would write serious songs where we would feel fulfilled afterwards instead of just getting laughs out of it but this was met with resistance in the band which began sparking more hostility. We began to have artistic differences which is never good. We were talking and one of us brought up the idea of writing the greatest punk album ever only to met with, "We should play as if this was our last show ever!" The sad thing about this is that I actually smiled at this statement and I was slightly raised from the depressed state I was in for many weeks preceeding it. We never were given a straight answer on the departure before the idea of our last show ever was presented with some members having other projects they are devoted to. Here it is:
Our last flier, we have our first complete self booked show done mainly by Lee. We are playing with several acts and we probably, as always, will add some random act at the last moment so it is likely to be a good time. We have played with a few bands over the past few months win we actually started playing shows and I;ve met alot of cool people and experienced alot of cool things. Here are the bands:
Zombies Eat Brains x3
KillAttack! x2
Granola, Add Bacon
Clearwater Cranklab x2
Dee J Bizzle
Justin Goes Acoustic x2
Ted Kennedy's
SNAFU
Bridgeford
A Working Model
Semi-Acoustic Lee
Emergency Care
the Yulgits
Our False Heroes
Croft
Fast Fall Off
The only venues we ever played were:
My Garage
My Basement(I played drums for Zombies Eat Brains at this one)
My Living Room(without Justin)
Will's Backyard
Will's Basement(prior to me joining)
The Modern Exchange
Justin's Backyard/Deck
The I-Rock
The band went trhough a few line-ups which included(in chronlogical order):
1. Justin-Drums, William-Guitar, Lee-Bass
2. Justin-Guitar, William-Vocals, Lee- Bass, Jon-Drums
3. Justin-Trombone, Willaim-Vocals, Lee-Bass, Jon-Drums, Myself-Guitar*
4.Justin-Guitar, Willaim-Vocals, Lee-Bass, Jon-Drums, Myself-Guitar*
5. Justin-Drums, William-Vocals, Lee- Bass, Myself-Guitar
*This line-up existed for one practice.
Jon has been our manager since he was first in the band and since the first time we talked to Randy after he first saw us(12/31/06) he had agreed to roadie for us. Justin, Jon, and I were actually talking about recruiting Randy for the bassist position which would allow Lee to swithch to guitar, which he has always wanted to play.
The future is not bleak for the (soon to be former) members of TYSTCOABTH as each plans to continue in music. Currently:
Justin and I are in a ska band called The Little Mad Guys with Dave from Zombies Eat Brains where I play bass, Justin plays drums, and Dave plays guitar. The band used to have Josh Caps and William as vocalists but Josh's car broke down which put us on hiatus and he is moving away in the fall so we cannot expect him to make the long trek to practice. We had to trumpet players in Jacob Fry, who made it to one practice, and Sherwin whom I've never met because something came up within hours of our practices. We haven't talked to Will to see if he still wants in. Dave says he made no someone who will take over lead vocalist duties.
I have a solo punk band named Jeff and the Heroin Addicts in which I write and cover random songs. I also may start writing folk punk if I improve my voice.
Justin, Jon, and I are in a generic rap group where I compose the music and we have no originality.
Lee is in two bands, one I know is the hardcore band errors! with James Draft, Jake P, and two more people I have never had the pleasure of meeting.
William hopes to start another hardcore punk band possibly titled Ghost Dance Vietnam.
And finally, I hope to start a pop-punk band drawing influences from Screeching Weasel and the like.The line up may be something like; Me-Lead Guitar, secondary vocals, Jon-Lead Vocals, Randy-Bass, Sean(Jon and Justin's brother)-occasional keyboard, Ali(friend from school)-drums, and hopefully a rhythm guitaris if one can be found.
I wanted to start another punk band with Justin seeing as we were goin for the sa,e sound with what he tried but he is opposed to starting another band at this point.
I've been listening to Screeching Weasel's I Wrote Holden Caufield for the past hiur during the writing of this entry. The song makes me happy, it sends the message that things can get worse and you can't live in regret of the past. I enqued it about 20 times and it's on it's last play as I finish the entry just as I hoped. it shows sometimes things will work out as you hope which is also a part of the song.
I don't know what's going to happen in the near future but I don't need hope for anything good to happen as I KNOW IT WILL. The last few years have been fun and I thank all the support we've been given. Thanks.
Jeff
Our last flier, we have our first complete self booked show done mainly by Lee. We are playing with several acts and we probably, as always, will add some random act at the last moment so it is likely to be a good time. We have played with a few bands over the past few months win we actually started playing shows and I;ve met alot of cool people and experienced alot of cool things. Here are the bands:
Zombies Eat Brains x3
KillAttack! x2
Granola, Add Bacon
Clearwater Cranklab x2
Dee J Bizzle
Justin Goes Acoustic x2
Ted Kennedy's
SNAFU
Bridgeford
A Working Model
Semi-Acoustic Lee
Emergency Care
the Yulgits
Our False Heroes
Croft
Fast Fall Off
The only venues we ever played were:
My Garage
My Basement(I played drums for Zombies Eat Brains at this one)
My Living Room(without Justin)
Will's Backyard
Will's Basement(prior to me joining)
The Modern Exchange
Justin's Backyard/Deck
The I-Rock
The band went trhough a few line-ups which included(in chronlogical order):
1. Justin-Drums, William-Guitar, Lee-Bass
2. Justin-Guitar, William-Vocals, Lee- Bass, Jon-Drums
3. Justin-Trombone, Willaim-Vocals, Lee-Bass, Jon-Drums, Myself-Guitar*
4.Justin-Guitar, Willaim-Vocals, Lee-Bass, Jon-Drums, Myself-Guitar*
5. Justin-Drums, William-Vocals, Lee- Bass, Myself-Guitar
*This line-up existed for one practice.
Jon has been our manager since he was first in the band and since the first time we talked to Randy after he first saw us(12/31/06) he had agreed to roadie for us. Justin, Jon, and I were actually talking about recruiting Randy for the bassist position which would allow Lee to swithch to guitar, which he has always wanted to play.
The future is not bleak for the (soon to be former) members of TYSTCOABTH as each plans to continue in music. Currently:
Justin and I are in a ska band called The Little Mad Guys with Dave from Zombies Eat Brains where I play bass, Justin plays drums, and Dave plays guitar. The band used to have Josh Caps and William as vocalists but Josh's car broke down which put us on hiatus and he is moving away in the fall so we cannot expect him to make the long trek to practice. We had to trumpet players in Jacob Fry, who made it to one practice, and Sherwin whom I've never met because something came up within hours of our practices. We haven't talked to Will to see if he still wants in. Dave says he made no someone who will take over lead vocalist duties.
I have a solo punk band named Jeff and the Heroin Addicts in which I write and cover random songs. I also may start writing folk punk if I improve my voice.
Justin, Jon, and I are in a generic rap group where I compose the music and we have no originality.
Lee is in two bands, one I know is the hardcore band errors! with James Draft, Jake P, and two more people I have never had the pleasure of meeting.
William hopes to start another hardcore punk band possibly titled Ghost Dance Vietnam.
And finally, I hope to start a pop-punk band drawing influences from Screeching Weasel and the like.The line up may be something like; Me-Lead Guitar, secondary vocals, Jon-Lead Vocals, Randy-Bass, Sean(Jon and Justin's brother)-occasional keyboard, Ali(friend from school)-drums, and hopefully a rhythm guitaris if one can be found.
I wanted to start another punk band with Justin seeing as we were goin for the sa,e sound with what he tried but he is opposed to starting another band at this point.
I've been listening to Screeching Weasel's I Wrote Holden Caufield for the past hiur during the writing of this entry. The song makes me happy, it sends the message that things can get worse and you can't live in regret of the past. I enqued it about 20 times and it's on it's last play as I finish the entry just as I hoped. it shows sometimes things will work out as you hope which is also a part of the song.
I don't know what's going to happen in the near future but I don't need hope for anything good to happen as I KNOW IT WILL. The last few years have been fun and I thank all the support we've been given. Thanks.
Jeff