Songs, and our history as a band

Yeah, well, I was just invited by Gabe to this blog...awesome!!!! Like Gabe said, it's a great idea for us to tell you guys what is going on behind the scenes a little...like our songs. We have gone through a number of songs in our time as a band, but our main focus for this performance is Hysteria - Muse, A Lie - Caitlin and Seven Car Pile-up - me :D If there is a need for a fourth song, we could perform Karma Police - Radiohead if we get that learned, or we could use one of my bass-lines that have been orchestrated as far as the addition of drums and some guitar.

At the end of 7th grade, I was pretty much dying to be in a band. I felt that I would have a lot of fun in one, and it would be a good way of expressing my musical ideas. I received news that Kit Wheeldon played drums well, and some guitar. I asked him if he was interested, and he was as enthusiastic about it as I was. We had two people, and not much could happen. Ian Morse was decided to start taking drum lessons about 2 weeks after Kit and I formed a two-person band =D We threw Ian in the mix, and started jamming as much as we could. That summer I decided to teach myself some guitar, and I liked it more than I thought I would. Practices were held at Kit's house, and we would just hang out there, raid Kit's kitchen for nachos, and jam. It was at our 2nd practice that I came across a really cool sounding riff for the future chorus to Seven Car Pile-up. We all loved it, and we had it recorded on Kit's laptop. After a while, this idea of a three person band was kind of getting old. We felt we needed a guitarist. So, I asked David Glanzman if he and his brother could play guitar for us. His brother wasn't too into it, but David gave it a try, and it fit nicely. For a long long time we didn't have many practices. In fact, we never had a FULL band practice until months from asking David. We soon asked Caitlin Vanderwolf to sing for us, as she was well-known to us as an amazing singer. It took a very long time for her to finally accept, but when she did, it was awesome. Gabe was in Costa Rica! I was skyping him all the time, and one time he asked if he could be in the band. Everyone agreed that it was a really cool idea, violinist in a rock band...XD So, our band was formed. I have to say, Gabe did much more than bring his strings to our band, he brought his brain. Ever since he joined, we have had scheduled practices every weekend, and we worked on more songs. He even did a little stretching; he bought a guitar, and like me, he taught himself chords and is now a good guitarist.

Then, one day, Gabe told me that he signed us up for a gig. "WHAT!" We were not ready for a gig...or so I thought. He did it without asking us first, haha, but we're all glad he did it. Now we've got a name! We've got a blog! And we've got a gig! I forgot to mention, as our band progressed, our initial drummer did not. He sort of...faded away haha. Ian took over his place, and in about 2 years of drumming, has exceeded all expectations. He's really an amazing drummer, come see him perform Hysteria with us! It's really cool to see. So yeah, lots of writing...=P Thank you Gabe for inviting me, this is sweet! Rock on =P