Wednesday, July 05, 2006
... and the First Jam
This blog has been really crap for the last month or so (even more so than normal I mean...) I must try harder.
I mentioned the other day that I have been looking at starting up a new band, this seems to be going pretty well. We've got a frontman, drummer, bass player and two guitarists. Actually, I quite fancy playing some bass on some songs so I might swap over on that. Bass player is Sam, who I've played with in my last two bands. We've got a really good understanding in the rhythm section engine room and have jammed a lot of times with me on bass and him on guitar. He's a decent guitarist but I need to work on my bass playing. Get my hands stretched out. My girlfriend's going to drum as well. She hasn't played for ages but apparently can play ok. We'll see. Hopefully it'll be good but I suppose that situation is potentially disasterous.
The first jam is on Monday, we've got a room booked and everything. Plan is to just get the musical elements of the band together so that we can try and get past that awkward "er... what shall we play?" stage. No idea what the style of music will be at this point, we'll let that come naturally. The singer we have got to potentially agree to this project has never been in a band before and my gf has (as far as I'm aware) never drummed in a band before so I imagine it'll be quite a slow start the first few jams. As long as it's fun, that's the main thing and the line-up is a really fun bunch of people that I get on really well with. We'll see how that lasts once we start having heated musical debates!
The last couple of days I've been really drooling over some of the Electro Harmonix effects. I'm considering getting myself an English Muff'n because the digital distortion on my amp is a bit shit, but I'm also really tempted to get a guitar synth like the EH micro synth. I've been tempted to try playing synth but a guitar synth could be a great compromise. I've got some money coming in next month that could be used very usefully on such things.
I mentioned the other day that I have been looking at starting up a new band, this seems to be going pretty well. We've got a frontman, drummer, bass player and two guitarists. Actually, I quite fancy playing some bass on some songs so I might swap over on that. Bass player is Sam, who I've played with in my last two bands. We've got a really good understanding in the rhythm section engine room and have jammed a lot of times with me on bass and him on guitar. He's a decent guitarist but I need to work on my bass playing. Get my hands stretched out. My girlfriend's going to drum as well. She hasn't played for ages but apparently can play ok. We'll see. Hopefully it'll be good but I suppose that situation is potentially disasterous.
The first jam is on Monday, we've got a room booked and everything. Plan is to just get the musical elements of the band together so that we can try and get past that awkward "er... what shall we play?" stage. No idea what the style of music will be at this point, we'll let that come naturally. The singer we have got to potentially agree to this project has never been in a band before and my gf has (as far as I'm aware) never drummed in a band before so I imagine it'll be quite a slow start the first few jams. As long as it's fun, that's the main thing and the line-up is a really fun bunch of people that I get on really well with. We'll see how that lasts once we start having heated musical debates!
The last couple of days I've been really drooling over some of the Electro Harmonix effects. I'm considering getting myself an English Muff'n because the digital distortion on my amp is a bit shit, but I'm also really tempted to get a guitar synth like the EH micro synth. I've been tempted to try playing synth but a guitar synth could be a great compromise. I've got some money coming in next month that could be used very usefully on such things.
# posted by Mike @ 11:46 
