Date: 4/22/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar
Kevin C: Drums
Carl: Guitar
Had some good things going on in this one. There was a swung Em7-Bm jam going, and the C7-A7-Dm groove going again. Ripped off some good runs of the usual set...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
11th Jam: Party Harder
Date: 4/15/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar
Kevin C: Drums
Carl: Guitar
So, I missed the Jazz show at Fitzgerald's, but this was worth it. Kevin C invited his friend Carl to jam. Kevin vouched for him, but I gotta admit I was a little worried when he pulled out the acoustic. No worries. He was solid, even over Stooge. I definitely never heard an acoustic part in Stooge, but it sounded good. Hopefully, we'll keep him showing up with Kevin C.
While we were waiting on Carl, we jammed through a little riff in Dm. Good stuff. Even remembered to turn on the 8-track. Someday, I'll have enough time to develop some of this stuff, but in the meantime, it's just fun to jam through it.
We whipped through Tomorrow and some Stooge after Carl arrived. The Stooge outro was rag-tag, but it finally held together. I know Mike is going to want some clean transitions, but I kinda liked how we followed each other through the mixed-meter stuff. Okay, maybe it was five minutes too long, but I was digging it. Kevin M had the idea to jump back in on vocals after our musical adventure, which was something I had in the back of my mind as well. Great minds, eh? Ha ha ha...
After Kevin M left, we worked through some Cowboy Song. We have a few parts now that are pretty cool. We're going to have to try to work some melody into the fold in the near future. And I haven't even busted out the original bridge I wrote for the song.
When we got bored, Kevin C took the mic and I laid down a beat. It was an upbeat blues groove. Kevin was spewing gibberish, but I liked the sound. I'd love to keep going, but...God forbid these guys let me start switching instruments.
Oh, one more milestone: This was officially the night I realized that my back problems were from extensive guitar jams. The Gibson is by far the heaviest guitar I've played, and thinking about it, I've rarely played standing up for 2+ hrs straight. If it's just me, I'll take a break or sit down. I'm usually on acoustic for composing anyway. Anyway, hanging a 12 pound weight off one shoulder for 2 hrs is a problem. I'll have to figure out how to handle that going forward.
And to think I blamed ice hockey. For shame!
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar
Kevin C: Drums
Carl: Guitar
So, I missed the Jazz show at Fitzgerald's, but this was worth it. Kevin C invited his friend Carl to jam. Kevin vouched for him, but I gotta admit I was a little worried when he pulled out the acoustic. No worries. He was solid, even over Stooge. I definitely never heard an acoustic part in Stooge, but it sounded good. Hopefully, we'll keep him showing up with Kevin C.
While we were waiting on Carl, we jammed through a little riff in Dm. Good stuff. Even remembered to turn on the 8-track. Someday, I'll have enough time to develop some of this stuff, but in the meantime, it's just fun to jam through it.
We whipped through Tomorrow and some Stooge after Carl arrived. The Stooge outro was rag-tag, but it finally held together. I know Mike is going to want some clean transitions, but I kinda liked how we followed each other through the mixed-meter stuff. Okay, maybe it was five minutes too long, but I was digging it. Kevin M had the idea to jump back in on vocals after our musical adventure, which was something I had in the back of my mind as well. Great minds, eh? Ha ha ha...
After Kevin M left, we worked through some Cowboy Song. We have a few parts now that are pretty cool. We're going to have to try to work some melody into the fold in the near future. And I haven't even busted out the original bridge I wrote for the song.
When we got bored, Kevin C took the mic and I laid down a beat. It was an upbeat blues groove. Kevin was spewing gibberish, but I liked the sound. I'd love to keep going, but...God forbid these guys let me start switching instruments.
Oh, one more milestone: This was officially the night I realized that my back problems were from extensive guitar jams. The Gibson is by far the heaviest guitar I've played, and thinking about it, I've rarely played standing up for 2+ hrs straight. If it's just me, I'll take a break or sit down. I'm usually on acoustic for composing anyway. Anyway, hanging a 12 pound weight off one shoulder for 2 hrs is a problem. I'll have to figure out how to handle that going forward.
And to think I blamed ice hockey. For shame!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
10th Jam: Roll-back
Date: 4/9/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar
Our smallest jam in a while. Mike had a conflict on Wednesday, so we moved it to Thurs. Never heard from Kevin C...
Ran through the Door a couple of times. Still solid things happening there, still areas of improvement, but overall just some minor tweaks required. I feel like we're the closest we've ever been to remembering the break, so big ups to us.
We started talking about the random riffs I've collected. No one seems to pick up Jaunty without Ann around, so we moved on to the "Found You" riff. Didn't come up with any complimentary sections, but Mike did hear a different voicing for the last chord. Instead of an F5, he hears another Dm with a 3-5-Tonic voicing. It sounds good, but I guess it all depends on the melody and other sections we want to use.
We did some good work on "The Cowboy Song." Mike came up with a 6/8 rhythm, and I did a little lead line over Am-Am-C-Dm. After a few runs of that, we had something that modulated to Dm. Mike played a line Dm-Dm-A-F. However, with no drums, I heard it as A-F-Dm-Dm. We still haven't resolved what will constitute the beginning of the phrase, but we agreed it sounded sweet. I ended up playing an oblique line that created a lot of 4ths, and reminded me a very dark version of Westminster Chimes. How badass is that? Not very, I know, but it's kinda goofy regardless...
Kevin got bored, plinked around on the keyboard. If he continues to let Mike and I go off on our musical adventures, he'll soon learn an instrument (or two) to stay amused. To close out, we ripped through Tomorrow. Nothing too interesting there, except that Mike is going to revive the E-G-B-D feel in the song, which I think he was doing occasionally anyway. Now it's official!!!
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar
Our smallest jam in a while. Mike had a conflict on Wednesday, so we moved it to Thurs. Never heard from Kevin C...
Ran through the Door a couple of times. Still solid things happening there, still areas of improvement, but overall just some minor tweaks required. I feel like we're the closest we've ever been to remembering the break, so big ups to us.
We started talking about the random riffs I've collected. No one seems to pick up Jaunty without Ann around, so we moved on to the "Found You" riff. Didn't come up with any complimentary sections, but Mike did hear a different voicing for the last chord. Instead of an F5, he hears another Dm with a 3-5-Tonic voicing. It sounds good, but I guess it all depends on the melody and other sections we want to use.
We did some good work on "The Cowboy Song." Mike came up with a 6/8 rhythm, and I did a little lead line over Am-Am-C-Dm. After a few runs of that, we had something that modulated to Dm. Mike played a line Dm-Dm-A-F. However, with no drums, I heard it as A-F-Dm-Dm. We still haven't resolved what will constitute the beginning of the phrase, but we agreed it sounded sweet. I ended up playing an oblique line that created a lot of 4ths, and reminded me a very dark version of Westminster Chimes. How badass is that? Not very, I know, but it's kinda goofy regardless...
Kevin got bored, plinked around on the keyboard. If he continues to let Mike and I go off on our musical adventures, he'll soon learn an instrument (or two) to stay amused. To close out, we ripped through Tomorrow. Nothing too interesting there, except that Mike is going to revive the E-G-B-D feel in the song, which I think he was doing occasionally anyway. Now it's official!!!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
9th Jam: Full-on
Date: 4/1/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Kevin C: Drums
Ryan: Guitar
Had pretty good instrumentation finally. Started out by playing around with Stooge. Still working on what we want to do as far the Outro theme, but we had some good instrumental stuff going on post-bridge.
The Door got its requisite tweaking, all good stuff. A sparse guitar opening, elongated bass progression, before finally kicking in with drums, then switching over to a distorted guitar line before having the vocals come in. The last bridge also had less guitar before coming in with a lead line, whereas the doubling of the rhythm on guitar led to 2 repeats into the outro. It's gonna be sweet.
Hit Tomorrow with Kevin C. for the first time. Being that it keeps to the 4/4, Kevin picked it up pretty fast. That one is sounding pretty good, with the drums complimenting the switches between the clean and distorted channels.
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Kevin C: Drums
Ryan: Guitar
Had pretty good instrumentation finally. Started out by playing around with Stooge. Still working on what we want to do as far the Outro theme, but we had some good instrumental stuff going on post-bridge.
The Door got its requisite tweaking, all good stuff. A sparse guitar opening, elongated bass progression, before finally kicking in with drums, then switching over to a distorted guitar line before having the vocals come in. The last bridge also had less guitar before coming in with a lead line, whereas the doubling of the rhythm on guitar led to 2 repeats into the outro. It's gonna be sweet.
Hit Tomorrow with Kevin C. for the first time. Being that it keeps to the 4/4, Kevin picked it up pretty fast. That one is sounding pretty good, with the drums complimenting the switches between the clean and distorted channels.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
8th Jam: The Build-up
Date: 3/25/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
John: Guitar
Ryan: Guitar
Kevin C. caught the sickness, but we were able to get John back in the groove. Continued to work the Stooge outro. We've made it a 14-beat figure, but over the standard 8-beat Stooge groove, we're looking at 56 beats to sync up again. It's a work in progress.
Tomorrow's making some progress. Added a rhythm figure switching between the minor and major third for the main theme. Doing some different things with distortion coming out of the second refrain through the bridge, then again after the stop, which is adding some depth to the song. I'd love to hear how drums is going to sound behind this one...
Thinking the best way to go with the door is to pick rock or swing and stick with it. I'm thinking if we go rock, we'd want to remove the 6/4 bars, but we haven't worked through that in a while.
Adding I Miss You for next week?
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
John: Guitar
Ryan: Guitar
Kevin C. caught the sickness, but we were able to get John back in the groove. Continued to work the Stooge outro. We've made it a 14-beat figure, but over the standard 8-beat Stooge groove, we're looking at 56 beats to sync up again. It's a work in progress.
Tomorrow's making some progress. Added a rhythm figure switching between the minor and major third for the main theme. Doing some different things with distortion coming out of the second refrain through the bridge, then again after the stop, which is adding some depth to the song. I'd love to hear how drums is going to sound behind this one...
Thinking the best way to go with the door is to pick rock or swing and stick with it. I'm thinking if we go rock, we'd want to remove the 6/4 bars, but we haven't worked through that in a while.
Adding I Miss You for next week?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7th Jam: Core
Date: 3/18/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar/Drums
Kevin C bailed late on this one. I was a little worried about being productive and having Mike drive all the way out here, but it was a very good session. We started with Tomorrow. After a run-through, we started moving it from its acoustic origins into a more dynamic full-band sound using a broad distorted sound for certain sections. I played with the third on the E chord, switching from minor to major within the measure.
The Door also got its mandatory update. I'm not sure why, but its the most malleable song I've ever dealt with. Anyway, I started with my new choppy intro (which no one is sold on yet), and tried to transition from a slower swing to a driving rock beat at the end. We're not quite there yet.
Ended the night on Stooge. I jumped on drums, and Mike worked through the locrian hemiola. I think he's got it. I hope he's got it, because I didn't really have a chance to practice it on guitar. Anyway, there's an opportunity to foreshadow the figure as a fill earlier in the song. I think we figured out that it works if you rest on 1 for the fill and start on 1 for the repeated figure, but we'll have to revisit. Mike also had a different bassline going at one point, so we'll see how to work that in.
At some point I also need to get serious about harmonizing the vocals...or get serious about having Kevin do it!
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar/Drums
Kevin C bailed late on this one. I was a little worried about being productive and having Mike drive all the way out here, but it was a very good session. We started with Tomorrow. After a run-through, we started moving it from its acoustic origins into a more dynamic full-band sound using a broad distorted sound for certain sections. I played with the third on the E chord, switching from minor to major within the measure.
The Door also got its mandatory update. I'm not sure why, but its the most malleable song I've ever dealt with. Anyway, I started with my new choppy intro (which no one is sold on yet), and tried to transition from a slower swing to a driving rock beat at the end. We're not quite there yet.
Ended the night on Stooge. I jumped on drums, and Mike worked through the locrian hemiola. I think he's got it. I hope he's got it, because I didn't really have a chance to practice it on guitar. Anyway, there's an opportunity to foreshadow the figure as a fill earlier in the song. I think we figured out that it works if you rest on 1 for the fill and start on 1 for the repeated figure, but we'll have to revisit. Mike also had a different bassline going at one point, so we'll see how to work that in.
At some point I also need to get serious about harmonizing the vocals...or get serious about having Kevin do it!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
6th Jam: Maintainance Jam
Date: 3/12/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ann: Keys
Ryan: Guitar/Vocals
Came back from Austin Wednesday night, but I didn't want to go three weeks between rehearsals, so Thursday night it is. Mike got stuck in traffic, which gave me plenty of time to bother Ann into showing. She wanted dinner in return, and got ice-cream and beer. Pretty close.
Had a few ideas on how to start the Door. Two guitars would be nice, but I did like Mike taking the lead guitar idea and playing it on bass.
Mike's got the feel for Far Side, which allows us to hold it together without drums, usually a dubious task.
Whipped through Stooge, played a little Tomorrow. Since Ann was there, I jumped on the drums and we played through Fresh Air a couple of times.
Touched on Jaunty and The Cowboy Song. This reminds me that I need to name tracks before Ann weighs in on what they're to be called...
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ann: Keys
Ryan: Guitar/Vocals
Came back from Austin Wednesday night, but I didn't want to go three weeks between rehearsals, so Thursday night it is. Mike got stuck in traffic, which gave me plenty of time to bother Ann into showing. She wanted dinner in return, and got ice-cream and beer. Pretty close.
Had a few ideas on how to start the Door. Two guitars would be nice, but I did like Mike taking the lead guitar idea and playing it on bass.
Mike's got the feel for Far Side, which allows us to hold it together without drums, usually a dubious task.
Whipped through Stooge, played a little Tomorrow. Since Ann was there, I jumped on the drums and we played through Fresh Air a couple of times.
Touched on Jaunty and The Cowboy Song. This reminds me that I need to name tracks before Ann weighs in on what they're to be called...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
No Jam Tonight
We had a couple of conflicts tonight, so no rocking. But I'm looking for a webpage for the exact quote from the scene in Boogie Nights where Dirk Diggler pitches his idea for Brock Landers and Chest Rockwell to Jack Horner in the van. It's kinda funny when I use my Mark Wahlberg voice to say "that's not cool. That's not sexy" in response to something I don't like, but if I knew more of that monologue: now that would be something.
...so tonight's not a total waste.
...so tonight's not a total waste.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
5th Jam: Peanut Butter Only
Date: 2/25
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Kevin C: Drums
Ryan: Guitar/Vocals
All bidness this week. Mike, Kevin M, and I worked through the door a bit. When Kevin C showed up, we worked Stooge a bit, then Far Side, then the Door. Kevin C then had to take off, and we worked Tomorrow without drums.
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Kevin C: Drums
Ryan: Guitar/Vocals
All bidness this week. Mike, Kevin M, and I worked through the door a bit. When Kevin C showed up, we worked Stooge a bit, then Far Side, then the Door. Kevin C then had to take off, and we worked Tomorrow without drums.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
4th Jam: Multitasking
Date: 2/18
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Jim: Guitar/Drums
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar/Drums
Kevin C had an unexpected conflict, and John was out of town, but we still got a solid groove going.
We kicked off on The Door and played through that a few times. Work on an intro was deferred to when we had a drummer. We did work on the stop in the third refrain. It looks like a long tradition of tweaking The Door shall continue, much to the benefit of Mike's and my sanity.
Mike mentioned that we should work the Outro dynamics more. I offered up my volume pedal, which amusingly did not serve this function very well.
We jumped over to Stooge next, and ran through it a couple of times with Kevin. Jim hopped on drums for the second go through, and we hit the Outro hard. A few times I had thought we were wrapping up, and Jim just kept the groove going. My failed attempt at using the volume pedal in the Door did have one benefit. I switched over to wah, and played wah guitar over the Stooge groove, with sick results. I wouldn't have thought to put a clean wah sound in there, but it worked.
Mike started messing around with playing 3's over the basic riff, and eventually came up with this locrian groove: A-Bb-C-D-Eb. We still have to figure out where to stick it in, but it should spice it up some.
Our search for a cover led us down much the same path of aborted Stones covers, Fire, before finally settling on "something from Weezer." My knowledge of only "Say it Ain't So" led us to launch into that. It held together on a once through, then somehow became a reggae grove, and we went through half the song again with the new feel. I wouldn't recommend ever doing that again, but it was a solid change in feel that everyone picked up quickly.
I hopped on the drums long enough to revive some 5/4 stuff Mike and I have messed around with in the past. I'm hoping to pull this into a track, possibly "Save Me."
We then launched into our coup d'etat: the Baba O'Reily Superjam. I kicked it off playing the basic keyboard part on guitar while sitting at the set. You can probably see where this is going. Jim came in with the guitar part, and I "quickly" jumped on drums.
For some reason, I had decided to sing backup while drumming. Unfortunately, the mic was at eye-level by the time I sat down, so during my Garth Algar drum solo I whipped my head into the mic. I sometimes play up minor injuries, but that mf'er hurt!
After that, we listened to the RM disc and picked out Far Side and Tomorrow to put together next week. Fresh Air was mentioned as a future possibility, and Mike brought up Damaged Goods.
Jim mentioned brining back the jam, possibly with the Crazy Days riff. I'm all for that, especially when it leads to new song ideas, but we also talked about putting together set songs for possible gigs in the future. Little did I know what that would lead to...
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Jim: Guitar/Drums
Mike: Bass
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Guitar/Drums
Kevin C had an unexpected conflict, and John was out of town, but we still got a solid groove going.
We kicked off on The Door and played through that a few times. Work on an intro was deferred to when we had a drummer. We did work on the stop in the third refrain. It looks like a long tradition of tweaking The Door shall continue, much to the benefit of Mike's and my sanity.
Mike mentioned that we should work the Outro dynamics more. I offered up my volume pedal, which amusingly did not serve this function very well.
We jumped over to Stooge next, and ran through it a couple of times with Kevin. Jim hopped on drums for the second go through, and we hit the Outro hard. A few times I had thought we were wrapping up, and Jim just kept the groove going. My failed attempt at using the volume pedal in the Door did have one benefit. I switched over to wah, and played wah guitar over the Stooge groove, with sick results. I wouldn't have thought to put a clean wah sound in there, but it worked.
Mike started messing around with playing 3's over the basic riff, and eventually came up with this locrian groove: A-Bb-C-D-Eb. We still have to figure out where to stick it in, but it should spice it up some.
Our search for a cover led us down much the same path of aborted Stones covers, Fire, before finally settling on "something from Weezer." My knowledge of only "Say it Ain't So" led us to launch into that. It held together on a once through, then somehow became a reggae grove, and we went through half the song again with the new feel. I wouldn't recommend ever doing that again, but it was a solid change in feel that everyone picked up quickly.
I hopped on the drums long enough to revive some 5/4 stuff Mike and I have messed around with in the past. I'm hoping to pull this into a track, possibly "Save Me."
We then launched into our coup d'etat: the Baba O'Reily Superjam. I kicked it off playing the basic keyboard part on guitar while sitting at the set. You can probably see where this is going. Jim came in with the guitar part, and I "quickly" jumped on drums.
For some reason, I had decided to sing backup while drumming. Unfortunately, the mic was at eye-level by the time I sat down, so during my Garth Algar drum solo I whipped my head into the mic. I sometimes play up minor injuries, but that mf'er hurt!
After that, we listened to the RM disc and picked out Far Side and Tomorrow to put together next week. Fresh Air was mentioned as a future possibility, and Mike brought up Damaged Goods.
Jim mentioned brining back the jam, possibly with the Crazy Days riff. I'm all for that, especially when it leads to new song ideas, but we also talked about putting together set songs for possible gigs in the future. Little did I know what that would lead to...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
3rd Jam: Steady Beats
Date: 2/11
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Jim: Guitar
Mike: Bass
Kevin C: Drums
Ryan: Guitar/Vocals
Kevin C joins us on the drums this week. I also get Mike to come rock the burbs.
After a warm-up jam, we have dinner, and I finally get the PA working for vocals. There was a good, heavy groove going that eventually added a progression (Em-Em-G-D.)
We ran through Stooge a couple of times. I tried my hand at vocals, but a combination of never singing/playing the song and not remembering the lyrics made this difficult.
Jim keeps ripping off Stones riffs -- I gotta get these under my fingers. We did get a little Fire going, followed by some Knockin on Heaven's Door.
Kevin mentioned he had to go about 40 minutes before he actually left, which is always a good sign. We did play some P-Funk at Mike's suggestion to close out the jam. Mike's take, "Uh...that was good...didn't sound anything like the song, but it sounded good." Nice!
Rock
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Jim: Guitar
Mike: Bass
Kevin C: Drums
Ryan: Guitar/Vocals
Kevin C joins us on the drums this week. I also get Mike to come rock the burbs.
After a warm-up jam, we have dinner, and I finally get the PA working for vocals. There was a good, heavy groove going that eventually added a progression (Em-Em-G-D.)
We ran through Stooge a couple of times. I tried my hand at vocals, but a combination of never singing/playing the song and not remembering the lyrics made this difficult.
Jim keeps ripping off Stones riffs -- I gotta get these under my fingers. We did get a little Fire going, followed by some Knockin on Heaven's Door.
Kevin mentioned he had to go about 40 minutes before he actually left, which is always a good sign. We did play some P-Funk at Mike's suggestion to close out the jam. Mike's take, "Uh...that was good...didn't sound anything like the song, but it sounded good." Nice!
Rock
Thursday, February 5, 2009
2nd Jam: Let's Rock just a Little Harder
Date: 2/4
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
John: Guitar
Jim: Guitar/Drums
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Bass/Drums/Guitar
After losing the argument with Kevin that he really should take my mumbles at face value and write his own lyrics, I relent and send him the lyrics to Stooge. Why did I not send the lyrics to the other songs? They were not on the computer from which I was sending emails to the group that day.* And I thought I could still win the argument that he should write lyrics.
Note to self: Befriend a poet, or at least someone who writes sweet lyrics to rock songs.
Note to self: Realize you're creating a band in which you will soon not have a spot, other than "sound guy" or "fly-dancer."
Note to self: Find some fly-dancers for the band.
Had to throw Kevin's vocals through the compressor and out the little Crate 15-watt practice amp. It actually worked pretty well. Hoping the PA comes by next week.
John, Kevin, and I pounded through Stooge before Jim arrived, and then again after he showed. We pulled that together fast enough that I wished I had planned more for the rehearsal. We messed around with a few songs trying to find something everybody knew. Kevin scoured the Interweb for lyrics of songs we were throwing at him. A little "You Really Got Me" happened.
While Kevin went off to the Interweb again, John, Jim and I got a little minor-rock groove going that alternated between quiet, rim-shot driven verses and harder choruses. John mentioned it was only two chords (I was on drums at the time.) We'll have to bust that out again and develop it in the future.
Plush was the closest we came to doing a cover. That's a possiblity going forward.
Jim mentioned the "Just-to-be-Difficult" riff again. I'll have to work on that one. Mike's gonna love the first rehearsal he attends!
Rock.
*Later discovered that the lyrics were on that computer, just not in the folder I expected them to be in. Even better.
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
John: Guitar
Jim: Guitar/Drums
Kevin M: Vocals
Ryan: Bass/Drums/Guitar
After losing the argument with Kevin that he really should take my mumbles at face value and write his own lyrics, I relent and send him the lyrics to Stooge. Why did I not send the lyrics to the other songs? They were not on the computer from which I was sending emails to the group that day.* And I thought I could still win the argument that he should write lyrics.
Note to self: Befriend a poet, or at least someone who writes sweet lyrics to rock songs.
Note to self: Realize you're creating a band in which you will soon not have a spot, other than "sound guy" or "fly-dancer."
Note to self: Find some fly-dancers for the band.
Had to throw Kevin's vocals through the compressor and out the little Crate 15-watt practice amp. It actually worked pretty well. Hoping the PA comes by next week.
John, Kevin, and I pounded through Stooge before Jim arrived, and then again after he showed. We pulled that together fast enough that I wished I had planned more for the rehearsal. We messed around with a few songs trying to find something everybody knew. Kevin scoured the Interweb for lyrics of songs we were throwing at him. A little "You Really Got Me" happened.
While Kevin went off to the Interweb again, John, Jim and I got a little minor-rock groove going that alternated between quiet, rim-shot driven verses and harder choruses. John mentioned it was only two chords (I was on drums at the time.) We'll have to bust that out again and develop it in the future.
Plush was the closest we came to doing a cover. That's a possiblity going forward.
Jim mentioned the "Just-to-be-Difficult" riff again. I'll have to work on that one. Mike's gonna love the first rehearsal he attends!
Rock.
*Later discovered that the lyrics were on that computer, just not in the folder I expected them to be in. Even better.
1st Jam: The Rock Trident
Date: 1/21/09
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Jim: Guitar
John: Guitar
Kyle: Drums
Ryan: Guitar/Bass
I had coordinated meeting up through emails. At some point, I mentioned the fact that it might have been a good idea to have a couple of songs in mind to play. This was generally acknowledged as a good idea and promptly not carried out.
So it was a good sign that the jam generally went well. I'm still not sure how the 15 minutes hard-rock-into-funk epic will be used in the future, but the fact that we pulled something together was solid, given the fact that the guys really had met before, let alone played together. After exploring E-Minor metal for a while, my acknowledgement of general distain for 12-bar blues promptly led to a 12-bar blues jam.
Jim said it was cool when I switched from guitar to bass midway through, but I know I was wrecking his dreams of a three-guitar attack, a veritable trident of power-rock. He put on a brave face all the same.
We tried to figure out a cover. The Who's Baba O'Reily was the closest we came to putting something together.
Also discussed: The riff that Mike claimed I wrote just to be difficult.
Rock.
Location: Mt Prospect Studios
Jim: Guitar
John: Guitar
Kyle: Drums
Ryan: Guitar/Bass
I had coordinated meeting up through emails. At some point, I mentioned the fact that it might have been a good idea to have a couple of songs in mind to play. This was generally acknowledged as a good idea and promptly not carried out.
So it was a good sign that the jam generally went well. I'm still not sure how the 15 minutes hard-rock-into-funk epic will be used in the future, but the fact that we pulled something together was solid, given the fact that the guys really had met before, let alone played together. After exploring E-Minor metal for a while, my acknowledgement of general distain for 12-bar blues promptly led to a 12-bar blues jam.
Jim said it was cool when I switched from guitar to bass midway through, but I know I was wrecking his dreams of a three-guitar attack, a veritable trident of power-rock. He put on a brave face all the same.
We tried to figure out a cover. The Who's Baba O'Reily was the closest we came to putting something together.
Also discussed: The riff that Mike claimed I wrote just to be difficult.
Rock.
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