The things I do sometimes just don't make any sense. I went out to Tempe to try out for a band/meet guys from a band. To sum it up in one swing, they were doing something very similar I was doing in Ripp Tyde. I don't want to stay on that path, I don't want to do a raunchy hard rock band. They style that was popular in the 80's died in say 1992. It had a small revival in 2008, hence all the 80's bands with very good record, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Metallica, Guns N' Roses. Well, you can kind of count Guns on the other side of that. It died as quick as it had re-birth. That is another reason why I left. The style is dead, and I didn't want to continue in a band where I was going to be mocked for trying to be something that is I guess retro. It wasn't anything new and that is what record label look for.
What I am exactly looking for is a band that is similar to Rise Against. Build upon their sound that they have created. I just want songs, and a band with meaning. I don't want to sing lyrics that were just written on the spot just because, and they then sound nonsensical. I don't want to put up a front like I was in Ripp Tyde, it just wasn't me. I'm not a party animal, I'm not a heavy drinker, and I'm not really looking to hook up with every groupie out there. I would be very content playing in a straight edge punk band. I don't care if I am contradicting myself from words that I had said earlier. I have enough problems with my body, why keep putting more poisons in. I don't want to be like that.
Recently I was talking to someone I know who met Rise Against after the July 14, 2009 show. He first off said they were really classy guys, and I can really buy into that after meeting Chris Chasse in Los Angeles. What he said Tim did I like a lot, and that would be me. On stage put on a great show, lead the crowd and be that guy. After the show, he said after they talked he swung on his backpack, and walked alone to the hotel, which was right behind the venue. I would be very content being like that. Dying young is way too boring these days, and it is way too cliche'. Do I really want to be like, John Bonham, Kurt Cobain, Steve Clark, or Bon Scott? No. Simple as that. I want to live a full life and see things, and remember them.
We all grow up, and we all change. I think I have really hit that point this last month. The best part about the human conscious is our willing to grow and change to our surroundings. I more than likely have said this before, those who are afraid of change, will not grow and mature and will remain stuck in that same room for the rest of their lives. It's about getting up and taking a stand and saying, "no more." That has been the point I have reached. Is it depressing that being in a band for the most part was my social life? My my mind, very yes. Especially the band I just left.
I'm moving out come January and moving to Flagstaff, for school, health, and personal reasons. What I have been doing the past six months was living in repetition. It was one of the most redundant cycles of my life thus far. That is all about to change. I'm not going to the same place every Friday or Saturday night, and surrounded by the same people. Meeting new people tends to be a good experience. I mean you can meet anyone, new band mates, a girlfriend, a celebrity. It goes on and on. We all need to break chains, and I have broken mine. I hope when I get back into a band it doesn't wind up being the same thing. I wrote a song that wasn't supposed to be a song about reality, but a bad dream. That bad dream of repetition and the song came true. Funny, I think not.
It comes down to this, I'm not looking for a band that could evolve into what I just left. I'm done with the genre of music, I love listening to those bands, but I'm not influenced to be like them anymore. I was for about 5 years, it is now time to move on. I just really wonder at times, have all musicians lost touch with reality. Life isn't all about writing songs to be sleezy, to be vulgar. Music is an expression, and if everyone is saying the same thing, have us as musicians, lyricists, instrumentalists, and vocalists lost our individualism? It is a question I have been asking to my self when I have been writing lyricvs the past 6 months. Sometimes what I wrote lyrically, the meaning was written by say Motley Crue, or Def Leppard. To me it is bland to do that. Same goes when writing riffs for that music. Stealing something from the past is the same thing. You are taking someone else's thoughts musically, and put up a facade and say it's yours. That's no way to live mate.
One last thing about being in a band. I titled a blog a few weeks ago in reference to this. When you are in a band, your band-mates shake your hand, and praise you really no matter what. Not only that, they are sincere about it too. Then the second you walk away from it all, they start saying how you were crap, or they can do better. The greatest one I got was that I was getting the band no where. Here is my piece about it. If I wasn't in the band, we wouldn't have gotten shows, there would have been no t-shirts, no idea where to go fro recording, no new members when people decided to walk. When it came to shows, who was the one got the crowd going, who engaged them in a proper way? Who was the only one moving around on stage at times? Also, who is responsible for you even being in a band? I was that band in so many ways, no one stopped to realize it. That's exactly how I will be when I join another band. I will help get shows, and all the little perks, and I will front and represent the band. I have learned a lot over the past few years about how things work. It takes time and especially effort. If you want to do anything with a band, you have to commit as much as possible. Give up petty habits, and put your band first.
That is all for tonight. But first a quote to finish off this blog...
"Things do not change; WE change!"-SS
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