Posts Tagged ‘New Music’

2-27-09

I don’t think the four of us could have stayed together even if we wanted to. We had been through so much turmoil and pressure that something was going to blow up eventually. Erin probably saw this coming before the rest of us did. It was inevitable.

In the end, Patrick and myself were the only two left, and two people can’t make up a rock band (unless your the White Stripes)… and we’re not the White Stripes.

But we couldn’t leave this project. We had put our energy and our souls into BoR for the last four years, and we started something that needed to be continued. We had to do something, even if we had to start from square one.

So that’s what we did:

SQUARE ONE

After months apart, Patrick and I reunited in Jersey and jammed out for the first time (EVER). Seriously.

Sure, we had rehearsed plenty of times, but we never sat down and just “jammed”.

I pulled out my guitar, Pat dusted off his cello, and we just started going, like two high school kids jamming out in the garage. It was a blast.

It was the most fun I had in a long time, and we were actually coming up with some fresh new ideas. We weren’t thinking about lighting our cellos on fire or doing over the head solos. The novelty was replaced with something else. Something fresh.

We were spilling our guts and writing music with no real plan in mind. Just for fun, probably the way it should be. We kept going, for that entire summer.

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Next week on BoR Blog: We’re not exactly sure yet…