Your band? Very cool stuff brotha.
That just hurts. I started two bands, I'm a shit drummer and write the songs. Six incarnations and two suicides, took the wind out the endeavor. Everyone left one day, we were practicing in a quanset quansit, garage. Neophytes except for our guitar guys, older by a little but the best guitar player I've ever known, not regionally, just fucking next level, there was no band, he was miles above but a moment in time we were writing songs and dug the shit out of life, wanted to be a real band I was 17 he was 20, we could've rode his shirt a long way, he was so good, instant cred, he could just lay shit out, miles above. He had a drug problem, he'd been in some bands, but we clicked. I wrote bad songs, Krokus meets the platters, if it was gonna work, it would've been something. Mostly covers to get the sync in. We were exhausted and bored practicing, I said we need to do Hell's Bells, for me. This one for me come on, so we were working on it, it's five in the morning, the others go away, and I'm just thumping and we're talking working on arrangements, he goes to get some more beers. tic tic tic
hmmp
knock on the door t the house, his mom answers, we go down and he's hanging in his bedroom.
There was no six year walking dead jump. It was just a horrendous fucked up mess I'll never get over. I knew drugs, but not that night, I don't know what the fuck happened, how I didn't see, we were together all fucking night. I still don't understand. I've still got all the shit we wrote, that'll die with me. His folks are gone, my pals are gone down roads, it's just me and the shit. So I had an ocean of fun in a couple little bands. I was never any good, but you're a kid, being prolific and ftw, for a moment in time and with him, we were looking to put some shit down and see what would happen. There was nothing special besides him, but he was great. He only cared about the music and the craft, we were good friends because of that. I stayed in touch with his folks, another buddy, one of our three bass players married his girlfriend and moved away. His folks both died a few years ago. I wrote about 30 or 32 songs for us. We worked up about 13 and played at bon fires and keggers and back yards. fuck