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Classified Rock : The Great Band Experiment of 2003

Posted on May 23, 2003 at 1:31 pm | No Comments

Ok, so I sometimes play the drums. Have been for a buncha years now. If you know me well, or have ever surfed through music section of this site, you’re probably aware of that already. It ain’t news. Neither is the fact that the last band I was in died an unexpected death last fall. A bummer, yeah, but life goes on. And so it has…

In a long-building fit of motivation and slight impatience, I placed an ad in the artists & musicians (neither of which I consider myself) section of craigslist yesterday. I threw it together in a few minutes, didn’t put a lot of thought into it, and clicked ‘post’. Easy enough.

Y’see, I’ve been waiting to rock again… I just kinda figured something would come along, y’know? Like the ad says, I’ve hardly ever had to force it… there’ve always been people around me who wanted to start something… the core of each new band comes together on it’s own. I’ve always been able to start things off with friends, not inter-met strangers (although in the one big exception to that, I got awfully freakin’ lucky with Matt, and by association, Mary, and I’m not just talking about their rock skillz, either.)

So I’ve waited long enough for fate to find me, and thought it was time to put something out there and push it along … at the very least to see who’s around, who’s looking, what the demand is for a not-quite-ready-to-sell-the-drum-kit kinda guy like me.

In the interests of science, and potentially slight amusement, I thought I’d chronicle the responses I get here on the ‘nac. Follow me on my little journey now, will you?

Responses, Day One :

1) The first guy invites me to join “a ska / rock band (without horns)”. Perhaps I should have put ‘no ska bands’ in my ad, too? My friends are picturing me in a ska band and laughin’ right about now. It’s even funnier without the horns.

2) A singer who is into Faith No More, James Brown, and Jane’s Addiction, and “music that makes you want to sing along and dance/move to.” He used the word ‘jam’ in his email, too… and not in a good way.

3) A band who just lost their drummer and is looking for “someone who can FEEL the beat and groove it.” Yes, he actually capitalized the word ‘feel’. Y’know, I’ve been accused of a lot of things in my life, but “grooving it” was never one of them.

4) Oddly enough, while I was writing this post, I just got one that actually looks pretty promising.

Oh, and in the event that this whole search thing is a bust, and only serves the purpose of padding some blog space, what should I write in my next ad? Which parts of the ad sucked? What am I missing that could help narrow the field, or did I say waaay too much? (I, um, tend to do that sometimes.) Let me know in the comments section below.

And yeah, go ahead my witty pals, make fun of me in there, too. You know you want to. You started thinking about it three sentences ago, ya bastards.

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