I've got some pretty sweet news that pales in comparison, obviously, to what a lot of you guys are doing on here, but a friend of mine named Chris and myself are starting a new project.
I just ran into him at the gas station he manages last night when I was out buying some smokes for my wife.
It's pretty interesting as he is a guitarist/bassist, and I pitched him my idea concerning the role I'd like the bass to play in the band, strangely enough, he wants to do it with me, but not as the bassist, as the guitarist!
In any case, he made a phone call and we now have a really good bassist who is familiar with me, though I didn't know her by name or anything.
It's pretty funny because he was talking to her on speaker, and he's like, "Right now, it's just me and a fairly decent singer. You might not have heard of him, but he sang for Barometric Pressure and his name is Pierce -------------."
She repeated my name and said, "Yeah, I've heard of him," and then she paused as she was trying to think of what to say; she didn't know I was listening to the conversation.
I muttered, "Oh, S---," knowing she couldn't hear me.
She continued, "He's not awful. I saw them a few times. He can't hit high screams at all, hopefully he has stopped trying. If he has stopped trying to do that, we might be all right. I'm in."
Just to rub it in, Chris replied, "Yeah, he sounds like a cat being tortured when he tries to do anything on the high end."
In any case, Chris assures me that he is going to handle finding a drummer as he has three-four candidates in mind with significant experience and nothing presently going on. Chris maintains that one of them is better than the rest, but he doesn't know if that guy will be interested because he dislikes me personally, even though I can't remember who he is. He says any of the others will be sufficient, though.
We're going to get started practicing in mid-January, after the holidays are well and over because Chris is married with kids, as am I. Anyway, it'll probably be a few months after that, but I'll post a few crude recordings that we will probably do if I can figure out how you do that.
We plan to be ready to gig in six months practicing an average of 1x/Week, do you guys think that is too optimistic?
I know that my former band practiced a Hell of a lot more than that, but it was nearly a year before we felt confident enough to gig because none of us had any experience at that point.
We are going to also go with the name, "Barometric Pressure," I had previously secured the blessing of my previous bandmates to continue using the name and logo (my ideas in the first place) were I to form another band.
I just ran into him at the gas station he manages last night when I was out buying some smokes for my wife.
It's pretty interesting as he is a guitarist/bassist, and I pitched him my idea concerning the role I'd like the bass to play in the band, strangely enough, he wants to do it with me, but not as the bassist, as the guitarist!
In any case, he made a phone call and we now have a really good bassist who is familiar with me, though I didn't know her by name or anything.
It's pretty funny because he was talking to her on speaker, and he's like, "Right now, it's just me and a fairly decent singer. You might not have heard of him, but he sang for Barometric Pressure and his name is Pierce -------------."
She repeated my name and said, "Yeah, I've heard of him," and then she paused as she was trying to think of what to say; she didn't know I was listening to the conversation.
I muttered, "Oh, S---," knowing she couldn't hear me.
She continued, "He's not awful. I saw them a few times. He can't hit high screams at all, hopefully he has stopped trying. If he has stopped trying to do that, we might be all right. I'm in."
Just to rub it in, Chris replied, "Yeah, he sounds like a cat being tortured when he tries to do anything on the high end."
In any case, Chris assures me that he is going to handle finding a drummer as he has three-four candidates in mind with significant experience and nothing presently going on. Chris maintains that one of them is better than the rest, but he doesn't know if that guy will be interested because he dislikes me personally, even though I can't remember who he is. He says any of the others will be sufficient, though.
We're going to get started practicing in mid-January, after the holidays are well and over because Chris is married with kids, as am I. Anyway, it'll probably be a few months after that, but I'll post a few crude recordings that we will probably do if I can figure out how you do that.
We plan to be ready to gig in six months practicing an average of 1x/Week, do you guys think that is too optimistic?
I know that my former band practiced a Hell of a lot more than that, but it was nearly a year before we felt confident enough to gig because none of us had any experience at that point.
We are going to also go with the name, "Barometric Pressure," I had previously secured the blessing of my previous bandmates to continue using the name and logo (my ideas in the first place) were I to form another band.
