| My show tonight...
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This post may seem somewhat random...
For my English class I have to publish something, anything really, a poem, a story, a review, things of that nature. Everyone’s posting things online on forums and such so I decided to talk about the show I had tonight and put it up on TB.
Once a month my school has a "Coffee House" event full of poetry and music. I'm in the school rock band club and we had to play. It was the last one of the year so this time we were actually pretty siked and loose for once. Were usually all tense and end up sucking.
Thing is though, I did my best friend a favor and talked the powers that be into letting his band play. They’re WAY more professional and structured than us so we were afraid we would be a mess in comparison. But they played a good show and I congratulated them and all. Not too bad of a night so far...
A lot of people turned out for the Coffee House this time. I noticed the girl I kinda like was in the crowed so I was just hoping she would notice me and we would play a good show.
After some poetry this “screamo” band that a friend of mine is in played. They were amazingly talented I must admit (despite not liking that genre of music) and half the people cheering were girls who thought the singer was cute. One of those was the girl I like… all red and flustered about it…yea. Sigh, it’s always the singers…
But after my best friend’s metal band played, and then the screamo band played, we were worried no one would have fun with our music at all. We do punky covers of folk and blues songs mainly (in our current form) which compared to the other stuff, is WAY different and not exactly popular these days. “Like comparing apples and oranges” as our lead guitar player usually says. Except this time he said it was like comparing apples and Uranium. He had a point.
But a bit more poetry went by and we got back to our original mind set. “It’s our last chance of the year to rock out and have fun, let’s put on a show.” And that we did. During one song (a rock and roll type cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason”) everyone gets a solo, even the drums and bass. And I really got into mine, without straying of course. Gotta stay in the pocket right? I went over to our lead guitarist and played side by side with him, we really put on a show about it. I did good and everyone actually heard me (you know us bass players, people tend to turn us down…) they thought we were all great, and I got a lot of personal complements.
After the show I talked to the girl I like… she said we were ok and she got bored half way through. “No eye candy in the band”, she told me. To make it worse she had to leave early…dint even see my solo. Sigh.
Well I guess in conclusion tonight sucked with some things, but was great in others. So what if I didn’t empress a girl, I’m a bassist, what’s new? We played the best show we’ve ever done in my opinion, mind you we’re still in high school. The sound set up was great and we all did well and had fun doing it. I had a great time playing music and enjoying others’. So I guess tonight was a good night.
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-The bass player is the coolest guy in the band. He's also usually the one with the biggest penis.
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