It's been an interesting but good time, the last few months that is... there's a few things i miss these days, sometimes, but i try not to dwell on them ...
i've reaquianted myself with my life (and my cats) and have been in my rehearsal room playing drums almost every day ... (thanks for the advice K!) ...in between drumming and building a couple websites for friends i've been looking for a job. i might actually go into my career field on a casual basis...
i've been rehearsing with a broken down kit featuring my snare drum case as a kickdrum (pic in my 'misc images' gallery) ...and have been trying to learn to play a little more with brushes / bundles a bit more. songs take on interesting lives when you've got kick/snare/hat/splash cymbal. jay harris has been rehearsing here for the last while and we've gone to acoustic guitars and a small bass amp with the broken down kit ...it's a ton of fun. but man i can't wait to play as a loud band again.
i'm still playing with jay harris ... he's brought up the idea of using the band to finish recording his cd as the guys he was using to record are incredibly busy and he's itchin' to get a cd out.
this seems common to most people, but with some artists the live act never actually sees the recording studio (mostly pop/country artists - lots of producers prefer to use experienced session players and sometimes artists don't have much say under the producer until they've got a series of 'hits' under their belt - tim mcgraw finally got to use his band on his 5th or 6th studio record - but will avril's live band ever record with her?) ...so being asked to play on the record is a total treat. since i joined the band i've been learning material from demos / recordings ... and any new songs that were written i'd get a copy of to learn from. Jay's bringing in new songs a few at a time these days ... and in the last couple of months we've all been a bit more responsibility for coming up with our own parts.
a rehearsal space to call our own is something we need to find ... so if you have a decent sized / somewhat warm space out there to rent us ... call me 
so that pretty much sums up what i've been up to ... that and i redesigned the site and finally found a blog script that installs easily and has all the basic features i wanted... so i'm gonna use it
cheers |
