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July 28, 2005
Bandless
I went over to Twig & Jimmy's place last night. Almost 6 years ago they were my bandmates in Naked Fringe. In Fringe we "garnered minor international attention due to the influence of Napster" to quote Twig's bio from his new band, Interrogation. We all agreed last night that if we had to do it over again, we would've taken ourselves a lot less seriously, and really enjoyed the fact that we were a travelling band for a (very) short period of time.
I've hung out with Twig on occasion since the band split years ago, and we've kept in touch. As soon as we got together, our old in-jokes immeiately reappeared (Sinister Sam!). This was also the first time I'd seen Jimmy since the band split. He's definitely still Jimmy, but I can tell he's changed a lot. We all kind of grew up.
Our bit of time hanging out last night made me pickup my Guitars for the first time in months. I haven't played with anyone in a long time. I talked to Adam from my last band in Orlando for a few minutes last night - they're continuing to do small dates all over the east coast. They're going down to North Carolina in October, and they've relocated up to Pittsburg because of the drummer's new job. I still occasionally talk to Kate from Severance, which was the band in FL where I was really being the most creative. But we fought incessantly - it was 10 times worse than the fighting withing Fringe. Kate and I are still friends, but I can't help but feel a little bitter because I really liked the music we were playing. But we all hated each other when we were playing together.
The most difficult thing in the world must be finding multiple like-minded people who are capable of making music together. And now that I have a job where I'll have at least a few evenings that I'm not working, I've decided to take it upon myself to put together a new band. But how do you begin? All I have is my Les Paul and my Marshall. I don't have a bass. I don't have a practice space. And I certainly don't have any songs.
What's even worse is that I have something very specific that I want to put together. I want to piece together a female fronted band in the vein of Autolux, Denali and Amusement Parks on Fire. Certainly a tall order.
So I've scoured Craigslist. I've checked the City Paper. Anywhere I can think of to look, I've been looking. It was easier in Orlando - I knew just about every major musician on the scene. It was one of the perks to being the Lighting Director for half of the big bands on the scene. I suspect this might be easier once I'm back in school, which should be January if all goes according to plan.
In other news, I'm pondering going to iPod DJ night at Saint Ex tonight.
Posted by MikeSager at July 28, 2005 2:48 PM
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