The Power Outage That Saved My Band
by So...As a few of you know, my current band was supposed to play a local band show at a fire house up in stockholm...kinda like the one in sweeded except for the fact that it's up Rt.23 in NJ....no ezabel event was set up, no invitations were sent out or anything, and we didn't really tell to many about it, cause it was gona be this band's first show, and we kinda just wanted it to be a bit of a test run..if you will....So...We pack up the bandvan, and roll on up to stockhizzolm...everything's going well..and then....
BAM
Stockholm is thrown back into the 18th cizzentury, and,all power is out, electricity is now, a luxury....This obviously got us kinda worried about whether we'd be able to play or not - so - we wait...All ten bands stand there, w/the same high hopes...Hours pass...And it seems the PSE&G fellas where too busy back @ the headquarters engaging eachother in Halo to pay us any mind...So..The show gets postbond..The multitude of emo lovin local band fans slowely get in their cars and drive home..Dissapointment fills the air...We decide to have a lil mini-show back at the studio....
Then
Joey(other guitarist) gets a call from Derek(bassist/shoe polisher)'s sister who had a lil story to tell...Derek's dad, who, at last notice, was at home entertaining grandparents, was going to sneak over to the show, watch our set, and surprise Derek...Dady, although a musician, has NO appreciation for any sort of heaviness or screaming in music - we aren't a hardcore band, but, we at times are intense enough to get derek's dad angered - enough for derek's dad to forbid him from the band...But thanks to lil Mr. Power Outage, that HORRIBLE scenerio never went down...Amazing how such a chance occurence could save our butts like that...S'almost like...nahhhhh...coincidence, pure coincidence...haha
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Dude i'm sorry i couldn't make it to the show that was cancelled..
you better be there next time ya slacker!
i liked this better anyway. was more intimate and not bc we were all sweating very gross. hah ew that was disgusting.
you guys were awesome! love the new band, new stuff. i think you're all coming together better than ever. can't wait to see how things progress.
thanks!..means a lot, glad you liked it....d'you know if they make free standing air conditioners
I'm pretty sure they do. But I kinda like the 10 fans spreading around the hot swet-filled air. It adds atmosphere to the whole thing.
yes they do but like lynz said it wouldn't be the same if it were comfortable in there
you know what, i might have gotten on stage to scream "the quiet things that no one ever knows" with schiano if you had told me. jerks.
you wouldn't of drove all the way up there to see us!..it's like an hour...
haha from dan's it's really not that far
yeah seriously i can make it to route 23 in 9 minutes
uhh...oh...lol...i guess i just didn't think u'd be into it...but yeah, you're welcome to come anytime we play...we throw bottles of milk into the audience during our sets..haha, jk
hahaha, nice! yea, when i heard you guys covering that song too i was like shoot... cause im trying to do the same thing... lol, well see how it works out.
I was slightly disapointed that you actually didn't play "the quiet things..." because that song has grown on me. You did start to play it like five times. You didn't play it, did you? Was I really that spaced out that night?
this is the begining of what will soon be an emo addiction...there was a time when you hated all sounds from this genre, but, i'm slowley desensitizing you into liking it....and, we never learned it as a band, they were just fooling around
yea, i like it more every thime i hear a new song, nice work on the "desensitizing us" thing ;)
This is about your band, only not the one you're in now. Hence, not off topic. Do you have any samples of Ophelia's music still? I've heard the music only one's, do you have any with lyrics? I remember liking those a lot...
I was seriously impressed by you guys. You played exactly the type of music I'm into. I thought you were gonna be much more emo-ish and I was pleasantly surprised, hehe.
yipee!!!really happy to hear you enjoyed it, that woulda sucked if you came all the way up here only to take pictures of a band you didn't even like, lol
Can my little sister paint you guys a new sign please?
oh yes i second that!
haha, we've gotten kinda attatched to the ghettoness of our current sign...buuuuuut...have'r draw up a lil prototype...
yea, all u need now is one of those lil' mini pool tables that has ping pong on one side & air hockey on the other, foosball & pool. So like while you play their can be a ping pong tornament going on, on the other side of the room. We also need to invest in some DARTS 4 our poor purposeless DART board!
yeah yeah, it's slowley evolving...i'm kinda scared as to what affect guilderbell's gonna have on it.....
ohhhh, yea...I totally 4got they were going to be there soon. Can't we just Not allow them to do anything???
blank page diary is basically their landlords..we're gonna demand all kinds of outragous things of them in order for them to earn their keep....like polishing our guitars 3 times a week...
LOL! Yea, maybe we can get um' to leave us some gifts & non-perishable food stuffs in a certain place at the studio for when we come by to use it...like under a floor board as a please-let-us-stay-there offering (evil laugh)
i'm thankful that my father has an appreciation for all kinds of music. i'll leave it at that
my band
my band
my band
my baaaaaaaand
dude, i think everybody has a problem with ME
because
i'm the lead singer
you can carry your own microphone and get your own water
yea... if only it wasn't 100000000 degrees in there
o yea and i would also like to state that i am offically the #1 groupie of ur band since i was the only person in that room besides the band that knew the words to all the songs! including the original!
haha,no you don't, I DON'T EVEN know all the lyrics to our originals!!..and, i dunno, tia's come to a few more of our practice sessions than you..you may have to jellow wrestle her for the #1groupie spot
um no tia doesn't know any of the songs u guys sing... don't get me started on her... i may say things that i shouldn't hahahaha Melody = #1 HATER!
um, lol,yes she does, she's been to like 5 more of our practice sessions than you have..lol, ur such a lil brat!