volunteers?

so daniel wants to be our keyboardist. we tried playing with him the other day, it was really difficult at first, cuz he has really no training and was all wanting to explore all kinds of ideas and was a me a bit of the, "well i think the song should be like this" routine, but once i showed him the basic outline of a song we all kinda jammed a bit on a G chord and he figured out a few melodic ideas and stuck with them, and that was pretty promising and fun to do. he definitely has natural talent, and he seems enthusiastic so far, so we'll see.

on the bass player front, mikey has picked up on my hints and expressed a desire to give a try on bass for us. don't really know why we never really did nothing together the whole year and a half we lived together, but he and i fucked around a bit with some noise about a month or so ago, and that was pretty cool. he also doesn't have a whole lot of musical training, though he has played bass before, in a band no less, back in san diego, and he can play slopply some iconic metal riffs, so yeah.

so almost a band, maybe? i'm gonna try and keep a lassei fair punk rock attitude about it all i suppose, i guess we'll see if it all gels together or not.

anyways, yesterday me and tommi worked on seven new songs (to do live), so hopefully that will all come together. i have a couple new ideas that i need to work out arrangements and lyrics for, lyrics and subject matter being the particular challenge, as i'm not really inspired, and don't like repeating myself with motiffs and themes already expressed elsewhere. we'll see.