Another band?
Fri Sep 30, 2005 09:43 (UTC -5)Okay, so I haven’t posted since Monday. Gee, you must be wondering to yourself, I bet Jordon’s busy. Wrongo. I just haven’t had anything worthwhile to mention. My last two posts were sub-par, in my opinion. They were short because I couldn’t scrounge up a lot to say.
Anyway, on Wednesday I got invited to be in a band. My friend Mandi and her friend Nicole are starting it, apparently, and they want me to be a guitarist and lyricist. I thought it would be cool if I could provide some songs that I’ve written — I’ve written songs for a long time and I’ve always been itching to have them played by more than just me.
Mandi would be the lead singer, and Nicole would play the bass. They were trying to get Mark (from VRT, the band I’m already in) on drums and my old friend Jeff on the saxophone for a touch of ska, but those positions weren’t confirmed.
Besides ska, they named Taking Back Sunday as one of their influences. I had heard of them, but I had never heard them (of course), so I listened to some samples at Amazon. They don’t sound that bad. (My friends who don’t like them can shoot me or something.)
I think I would be the only guitarist, so the whole thing should just be a matter of playing power chords, unless they want me to play a solo. (The only problem is that I can’t play that fast without getting tired.) They also hinted that they would want me to sing occasionally, and in that case, Mandi could play the violin.
Considering that VRT is no longer playing live (but still is going to get together), I should have more time to focus my energy on this new band — if everything works out, that is. I’m going to meet Mandi and Nicole today so that we can “do lunch” and talk about how things would work.
Here’s a song (Flash, sound) created entirely out of sounds from Windows 95/98 (although I’m pretty sure at least one of them is from AOL).
If you have AOL Instant Messenger, plug your screen name and a friend’s into AIM Fight to see which of you has a larger network of friends.
