livejournal is alive and kickin~
Seeing as I havent made a real post since may of 2006, which I wrote drunk I figured whats a better time than now to write a real post. Everybody seems to be doing it. Anyways~
I figure this is going to be my last semester in school, I feel like im wasting my parents money. Theres a recording and sound engineering school in phoenix that I plan on going to someday, after I'm done with music that is. The fall of PLG really sucked when it happend in 06' becuase we had done so much. when scott left the band... it sucked, and we all knew that it was the beginning of the end. we slowly fell apart and we never got to record our final set which really pissed me off. It was like painting a picture and never getting to see it completed. Oh well~
After that I started taking the jazz improv class so I would still be playing music. It was nice to play some jazz again for a change, it really helps me out I think, I can lock into a groove and it can feel on par with transcendental meditation, really helps me center myself, or so I like to believe. From this class I've met a strange group of people who invited me to play in a slightly interesting, jazz piano trio with a female vocalist. I say slightly interesting becuase the lady picks most of the songs we play and they are almost all ballads and really cheesy bossas'. They are all a lot older than me, like they all have at least 10-20 years on me. The youngest is the bass player Matt. I think he is 33 but im not sure. He used to work at brooklyns which made me laugh becuase im sure I saw him tons of times during highschool. Nancy the singer and Wes the piano player are both in thier 40s. Nancy can drive me a little crazy sometimes, esp when we pulls out a new ballard from the real book that she wants to sing. But Wes takes the cake for being the weridest motherfucker in the group. Hailing from San francisco this guy is the real deal, and he is really werid. I dont know how to discribe it becuase from afar you would think he is a normal guy, but when you spend time with him its like wtf?? I can tell he is always pissed off about his job and his wife who is apparently crazy, so I guess I can see where some of it comes from but man, he is a werid guy~ We just recently recorded a CD to give to clubs to try and get paying gigs, which is the only real reason I'm in it, but none of them know that!
Other than that I'm glad to say I've been jamming with scott regularly since novemeber, it started with a band with him, and these guys charlie and jordan we jammed a lot of stuff and sort of wrote two songs that were pretty badass and now its kind of falling apart. It's becuase jordan writes music completely differently from Scott and I and like I dont know, there wasnt a lot of effort put out for it. It started to go in a different direction than I wanted so I was a little dissaponited and now I dont care that it isnt going anywhere. From that though scott and I have branched out even farther. He had some sort of an "epiphany" (his words, not mine) a few months ago and now I guess he has some math equation he can use to write songs, and has come up with some really cool shit. Hopefully something will happen and this wont have all been a waste of time.
Gonna be 21 this year. Finally I’ll be able to go see shows at Plush.
I figure this is going to be my last semester in school, I feel like im wasting my parents money. Theres a recording and sound engineering school in phoenix that I plan on going to someday, after I'm done with music that is. The fall of PLG really sucked when it happend in 06' becuase we had done so much. when scott left the band... it sucked, and we all knew that it was the beginning of the end. we slowly fell apart and we never got to record our final set which really pissed me off. It was like painting a picture and never getting to see it completed. Oh well~
After that I started taking the jazz improv class so I would still be playing music. It was nice to play some jazz again for a change, it really helps me out I think, I can lock into a groove and it can feel on par with transcendental meditation, really helps me center myself, or so I like to believe. From this class I've met a strange group of people who invited me to play in a slightly interesting, jazz piano trio with a female vocalist. I say slightly interesting becuase the lady picks most of the songs we play and they are almost all ballads and really cheesy bossas'. They are all a lot older than me, like they all have at least 10-20 years on me. The youngest is the bass player Matt. I think he is 33 but im not sure. He used to work at brooklyns which made me laugh becuase im sure I saw him tons of times during highschool. Nancy the singer and Wes the piano player are both in thier 40s. Nancy can drive me a little crazy sometimes, esp when we pulls out a new ballard from the real book that she wants to sing. But Wes takes the cake for being the weridest motherfucker in the group. Hailing from San francisco this guy is the real deal, and he is really werid. I dont know how to discribe it becuase from afar you would think he is a normal guy, but when you spend time with him its like wtf?? I can tell he is always pissed off about his job and his wife who is apparently crazy, so I guess I can see where some of it comes from but man, he is a werid guy~ We just recently recorded a CD to give to clubs to try and get paying gigs, which is the only real reason I'm in it, but none of them know that!
Other than that I'm glad to say I've been jamming with scott regularly since novemeber, it started with a band with him, and these guys charlie and jordan we jammed a lot of stuff and sort of wrote two songs that were pretty badass and now its kind of falling apart. It's becuase jordan writes music completely differently from Scott and I and like I dont know, there wasnt a lot of effort put out for it. It started to go in a different direction than I wanted so I was a little dissaponited and now I dont care that it isnt going anywhere. From that though scott and I have branched out even farther. He had some sort of an "epiphany" (his words, not mine) a few months ago and now I guess he has some math equation he can use to write songs, and has come up with some really cool shit. Hopefully something will happen and this wont have all been a waste of time.
Gonna be 21 this year. Finally I’ll be able to go see shows at Plush.