Strange how things can suddenly come full circle.

[jimmyether]

Last night worked out quite well. I went to the Masquerade early to meet Randy and the folks in The Nerd Parade to pick up a ticket from them. What a weird scene. I mean, the Masquerade has always been dark and weird, but now, as a not-19-year-old-kid... BOY did I feel out of place. And looked out of place too in my brion/tweedy wanna-be sportscoat

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[roiben]

:)

[bassygal0re]

I know he played in Spiral at the Cinefest gig.

BG

[jimmyether]

Oh no no no. Baby, you are thinking of Kevin. Totally different person! Honestly, I don't know that you ever met Jim, unless it was at Black Box.

[12ftguru]

Makes you wonder what ever happened to our "living a country western song" drummer...

[jimmyether]

I actually ran into him years ago (again, I forget where and why), but he was still living in Conyers and wasn't playing drums anymore. Who knows now.

Actually thinking back through all of the bands, rehearsals, recording sessions and shows is making me very tired and I feel very old suddenly. :)

[tricil]

i'm glad you had such an awesome night. and thank you for the kind words.

funny story about last night. Skip Lapekas was there and I used to work with him at Guitar Center. Turns out he had a mobile ProTools rig (002 rack and laptop) with him and was recording the band who played right before us from the sound board. I was "man I wish I had known." well he recorded us too!!

We can either A. Pay him for a 2 track mix down at a fair rate or B. get the ProTools session from him. Neither randy or i use protools tho, so we'll see. Randy wants the "stems" so he can throw it in Audition and doctor it himself, but i'm not sure how easy that is. We'll see.

[jimmyether]

I have ProTools. Just grab the whole session from him and have Randy get it to me. I can mix it or I can send Randy stems or whatever he wants.

[nothinganything]

The whole thing felt like the end of a John Hughes film. You weren't the only one on that page, man.

[jimmyether]

Oooo! I got to be John Bender right? 'Cause it would make that fist to the air thing I did on the way out so much less awkward.

[nothinganything]

I was probably John Cusack.

Jim?

[12ftguru]

Wow.... If memory serves me, I think he was Punch Drunk Mutts. Was that the band where Shawn sang? I have this vivid memory of Shawn being so trashed one night he was on his knees, holding on to the floor monitor to keep from falling off the stage. Jim was in that band too.

Who was drumming for Monkey Boy after you and I left? Was that Jim?

The past has become a blur and the future is smacking against my windshield like love-bugs on a Florida highway.

Re: Jim?

[jimmyether]

I'm remembering now that it was Shawn who was playing drums with The Punchdrunk Mutts, which was my short-lived side project. That was the pre-cursor for him joining Spiral (I may have created it simply to get him playing drums so I could work him up to Spiral). :)

The Shakes was the band that Jim was playing in with Shawn (which I found the mix master for!)... but that too was a side project. Jim started out in Monkey Boy, but I can't make sense of that in the timeline. I'd think it would had to have been before you and I were playing with them, because after that it was some other friend of Ken's (I forget his name). But, since I was the Monkey Boy drummer and only remember getting fired once... I am very confused. Unless Jim came in way at the end of all that mess. But I remember playing with him for a few months in *something*.

I feel the grasp of senility on my forehead.