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My life as a struggling (...well, · 1Y ago

Whoring myself out…musically

Playing drums is a lot of fun for me, especially if I get paid for it. That’s all I have to say about that. Nothing new to report on the band front, but there is stuff to report, so here it is (Probably the most boring blog post i’ll every write, but I wanna get [...]
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 1Y ago

Not Good Enough.

So I figured no one really reads this so i’ll post it anyway, ha! So my life lately has felt like a huge let down, nothing I plan for ever works, but it’s been like that for as far as I could remember. Sometimes it feels like i’m not good enough to attain the things [...]
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 1Y ago

it’s been awhile.

It’s been awhile since i’ve posted anything!!! ok, so; for the last couple months the band has seen it’s shares of ups and downs but there has always been a light at the end of the tunnel regardless of how any shows went. There have been some shows that i really would rather forget, it [...]
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

All Systems Go! A Recap of The Last Two Months

Outside sources let it be known that coming up with a band name would be better for marketing purposes so we spent an entire day just brainstorming names and what we came up with was, "The Star Spangled Happy Hour Time, Featuring Josh David". I'm kidding, we came up with "Culture Chemistry".
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

The hiatus – redo?

Now we are at a stand still, just us three once again trying to figure out what we want to do.
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

i have really expensive headphones now…

As a drummer i am the glue that keeps the band together. i can make or break a show, it’s a lot of responsibility; it’s more than just hitting things and being loud. my responisbility is to keep perfect time so the band sounds cohesive and professional so that’s why i ALWAYS play with a [...]
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

like sand in an hour glass, the frustration mounts.

it’s been a week since we’ve played a show, we were stoked about it and seemed pretty content with just having chee sing. Progress was being made while we waited for our singer to get his automobile fixed. We know that our band would sound great with a front man and felt that would complete [...]
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

The one about writing songs

I was looking through my email when i noticed a ton of emails from both Chee and Evan. They were all riffs or ideas for songs, i found this really interesting and wondered, how many bands write their music through email? All of the songs we have written have come from emails, we do about [...]
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

The first show…

she suggested we be called "noise"...not too sure if it was a legit suggestion or a burn on the music...
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My life as a struggling (...well, · 2Y ago

in the beginning….well the first year and a half.

Don't play music for the sole reason of making money, but play music because it's something you love to do.
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