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"Downtown" 2004-09-11 - 4:27 a.m. older - previous - next - profile - host - my band - my lj In a dramatic twist of fate, I actually had an exciting night tonight got my paycheck from work a whopping $43 Kevin reminded me his band* was playing at Skrappy's tonight so later on I showed up now, I had been led to believe(through various sources, including Kevin himself) that his band played hardcore music I more or less despise hardcore music but I like Kevin; and another guy I work with is also in the band, so I figured I'd check it out well, I came to find I had been misled they play metal full-on metal they look and act like a scene-ey hardcore band but they're fucking metal they remind me a lot of In Flames or Killswitch Engage and if you know who those bands are; then you know they sure as hell aren't hardcore ["hardcore" as in the crappy genre; not as in "hard-fucking-core"-type hardcore, because they are most certainly the second one] I was both shocked and impressed afterwords I helped Kevin load gear and talked to him some more and he's starting to really become a friend of mine; which is far cooler than I can put into words he has a very blank demeanor and my inferiority complex has helped to color his nuetrality in a negative light meaning that I always feel like when I'm working with him, and even talking to him; he's always thinking: "God I fucking hate this kid; I wish he'd stop bothering me" and while we aren't really friends yet I'm starting to realize that my paranoia is as unfounded as I'm always telling myself it is I don't know if we'll ever be really good friends; but I hope we do anyway; while I was at Skrappy's, I was privy to another shocking revelation: Cody works at Skrappy's now which is interesting given the music scene in Tucson and my being in a band; I'm likely to see him much more often now because of that which is fine, Cody's a cool guy and I don't know if he's clean now or if he's just more mellow but he doesn't seem to be the hyper, moderately annoying wastoid that he was back in The Day which is serious points for him anyway after the show I had band practice the demo has caused quite a bit of conflict within the band most of which we got hammered out tonight which is one upside to our eagerness to yell at eachother if we've got problems we get them right the fuck out; and usually wind up getting them fixed, since it basically works out as: one person is angry; the other person is defensive; and the third person is fairly nuetral and able to mediate it so that it gets resolved in a way that lets us live with eachother anyway I changed the way I sing again it does sound better but I kinda resent having to keep changing the way I sing in order to be what the band wants and regardless of that now I have to send out demos with me singing the old way on them but whatever when we actually got to practicing it came out really well we thought we were going to have a gig tomorrow night [which we only learned about wednesday; and then tonight learned that it was cancelled anyway] so from a combination of that and [for me personally]wanting to be able to compete with Kevin's band, we really put on an awesome practice that I'm a little sorry no one was there to see but if we can keep that up or better yet; build from it we will definitely rock anyway, I've probably only got another half an hour's time before daybreak with which to play The Room in; so I've gotta go Adios Amigos *-if you want to hear how they really sound, click on the second link, the "be friends with VTM" one; the files at the first link["listen to..."] were apparently produced by this one guy who was more into pop[Kevin told me the story], and really softened up their sound. When I first went to their website, I only listened to the songs at that link; which is why I didn't expect them to sound the way they did. It's a pretty drastic difference. � � |