"My" Bands
I play bass guitar. Not in a band, but sometimes I get together with other musicians to play.
As if anybody cares, this is where I will post notes about those experiences.
So...no band practice mates for a while (Although I have been playing bass for our church's "Team Two" - the "give the regular guys a day off" worship team).
Oh, well. At least I am getting to play and gain confidence at church once a month.
Band Names
Ever since I was a teenager, I have thought about "good names for a band". Well! I decided to start logging them. Here's what I've got at the moment:
- ilence
- I can Just hear the announcer..."And now, won't you please welcome....!Silence!"
- Absynthe Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
- Something about the oddity of it. It could abbreviate to AMHGF...kind of like KMFDM
- Socrates' Stomach
- I don't know why, but this rolls off the tongue well
- Remix
- ...every release is a single song, but done in *wildly* different ways
- They Call Me "Tits"
- It just rolls off the tongue
- Maindance Fix
- I have no idea why...and I'm not sure that's the name I heard when I was about to fall asleep at my desk. :)
- Jam Band (This one has to have been done already)
- ... and every album is a type of spreadable preserve; "Grape", "Strawberry", "Fruit"...
- Donkey Haute'
- Pronounced the same as "Don Quijote"
- Apocalypse Waits
- another "it just sounds good"
- My Ass Is A Squirtgun
- you really don't want to know
- Rogue otolith
- Anonymous
- Powdered Sugar Avalanche
- Box of Grandmas
- Death stuffing
- Shadow of the Bison
- False Fart Experience
- ... and "My Ass Is A Squirtgun" could be a song by them
- Loki's Revenge
- Why Bother?
2012-01-(Jan)-17
Well, it's been a bit, and I've got something interesting happening - I'm a founding member of the band "Free Root Beer"!
We're a three-piece; Guitar, Drummer and me as bassist.
We only practice every other week (for now...that might change when I get a house), so we're not building a setlist very quickly. But once we've got a bunch of songs we know, we'll work on gigging.
2012-05-(May)
The Guitarist from Free Root Beer needed more than one practice per week - and that was more time than the drummer and I had available, so we have parted ways. The name "Free Root Beer" is in limbo.
2012-08-(Aug)
Jeremy, the drummer from Free Root Beer, liked working with me enough that he has asked for us to keep working together. He likes the idea of the name " EarlNI" for the band.
So, as of August 2012, that's the band I'm in. We will probably practice every other week *at most*, and it's extra nice that we're working lots more on original material than we are on cover content.