A little excerpt from the entry that will be the story of my time with the band I was in way back in the day..
This isn't what I was after, I never wanted the band to end.. I wanted to shake things up a bit, maybe hoping that starting the rumor that I was done would make it start up again.. Something, ANYTHING.. I wanted to gig again but then again, I was a little relieved that the phone didn't ring again.. Remembering that feeling from contest time in school when I would do a solo and have to get it just right.. It made me get torn up and nervous as hell. I wanted to do good not just for me but also for everyone.. Was that undue pressure?? I always over think things as far back as then.. And so now I was hoping for.. I don't know.. I wanted to continue but I wanted it to be us getting busy and doing as much as we could.. The music scene was going to change over the next few years and I thought as it did we might have been left in the dusty wake that sometimes happens to bands that don't adapt.. Grunge was actually an interesting sound and expression.. We had adapted well from the heavy metal hair band sound of the mid eighties to a more pop oriented sound of the same period.. We had that coexist for a time before we became the pop version pretty much exclusively.. Everything we did, it seemed the perfect time to do it in..
Badge Henry
This isn't what I was after, I never wanted the band to end.. I wanted to shake things up a bit, maybe hoping that starting the rumor that I was done would make it start up again.. Something, ANYTHING.. I wanted to gig again but then again, I was a little relieved that the phone didn't ring again.. Remembering that feeling from contest time in school when I would do a solo and have to get it just right.. It made me get torn up and nervous as hell. I wanted to do good not just for me but also for everyone.. Was that undue pressure?? I always over think things as far back as then.. And so now I was hoping for.. I don't know.. I wanted to continue but I wanted it to be us getting busy and doing as much as we could.. The music scene was going to change over the next few years and I thought as it did we might have been left in the dusty wake that sometimes happens to bands that don't adapt.. Grunge was actually an interesting sound and expression.. We had adapted well from the heavy metal hair band sound of the mid eighties to a more pop oriented sound of the same period.. We had that coexist for a time before we became the pop version pretty much exclusively.. Everything we did, it seemed the perfect time to do it in..
Badge Henry
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