Thursday, August 12, 2004
Once more into the breach...
As regular Coments readers will be aware (yes I'm still deluding myself that someone might be reading) AK and I both found ourselves rockbandless for various reasons in the last few weeks and we decided that the sensible thing would be to go have a jam. We roped in a makeshift rhythm section for the evening and booked the room at Impact, as you do.
Jamming with a new bunch of people is always a bit weird. After a few years with Sonic Undermind we've all got to a place where we're very much on the same wavelength, people can just play off each other and see where things go. About 45 mins into yesterdays rehearsal I was starting to think it was going to be a difficult transition. It's amazing the difference drums make though, within 5 minutes of the drummer setting up we were playing something that was recogniseable as music, it was great. After 2 hours just jamming stuff out it was obvious that certainly got the core of a gigging band, some idea of the kind of style we were evolving into and elements of 3 or 4 songs. Credit to the rhythm section too, made our job easy.
It's really nice to get back to just jamming and writing new songs rather than rehearsing stuff I've been playing for years. It's also nice that it feels like a progression for me in terms of what I play. I'm still playing like me but I've got different things to feed off. AK's a very groove orientated guitarist which is fantastic for me as a rhythm player, I can feed off the lead rhythm as well as the bass and drums. I also got to play a bit of lead stuff.
Anyway assuming this becomes a proper band we are kind of intending to document our trials, tribulations and general rise and fall on this blog.
Mission 1: Find a drummer. Yesterday we were playing with Iain Kidd (formerly of Red House amongst others) who was really good but unfortunately he's not available for another project/long term in Reading so we'd like to find someone permanent.
If you happen to be a drummer who can play a bit and fancies jamming with us to see how things work out get in touch. mike@sonicundermind.co.uk Our influences should be fairly obvious from our favourite guitarists that we posted a while back on this blog.
Jamming with a new bunch of people is always a bit weird. After a few years with Sonic Undermind we've all got to a place where we're very much on the same wavelength, people can just play off each other and see where things go. About 45 mins into yesterdays rehearsal I was starting to think it was going to be a difficult transition. It's amazing the difference drums make though, within 5 minutes of the drummer setting up we were playing something that was recogniseable as music, it was great. After 2 hours just jamming stuff out it was obvious that certainly got the core of a gigging band, some idea of the kind of style we were evolving into and elements of 3 or 4 songs. Credit to the rhythm section too, made our job easy.
It's really nice to get back to just jamming and writing new songs rather than rehearsing stuff I've been playing for years. It's also nice that it feels like a progression for me in terms of what I play. I'm still playing like me but I've got different things to feed off. AK's a very groove orientated guitarist which is fantastic for me as a rhythm player, I can feed off the lead rhythm as well as the bass and drums. I also got to play a bit of lead stuff.
Anyway assuming this becomes a proper band we are kind of intending to document our trials, tribulations and general rise and fall on this blog.
Mission 1: Find a drummer. Yesterday we were playing with Iain Kidd (formerly of Red House amongst others) who was really good but unfortunately he's not available for another project/long term in Reading so we'd like to find someone permanent.
If you happen to be a drummer who can play a bit and fancies jamming with us to see how things work out get in touch. mike@sonicundermind.co.uk Our influences should be fairly obvious from our favourite guitarists that we posted a while back on this blog.
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