Out of the Blue

Last night was the march Hardston cafe. Myself, Graeme (my drummer) and a couple of our friends Derek and Christian. So we show up and the people that are hosting it ask us if we brought our instruments. Naturally, since we came to just watch, we did not. They apparently had 6 bands lined up to play but 4 of them bailed out. So now we're rushing all over Saint John getting our gear together to play a show at the last minute! Needless to say, it was pretty exciting. So as we were racing about, gathering guitar and amp and cymbals over west, we call our singer and steal him from his girlfriend to come sing. As we all finally pile into Derek's car to race back to the venue, we start to throw around song ideas.

Finally, once we reach the hardstone cafe, we start to run through some of the songs we planned to do. They were American Woman - by the guess who, God of Thunder - by Kiss and Here Comes The Boom - by P.O.D.

After a while of frantic lyric writing on paper and useless rehearsal, we got up on stage and just rocked it out. Graeme had to make up 2/3 songs worth of drumming and he did very very well and I commend him on it. Christian rapped POD well for us as andrew sung his heart out for American Woman and God of Thunder. I supplied the rythm and lead for both songs, only botching the solo for God of Thunder that I had to make up on the spot. The crowd seemed to like the music and we all enjoyed ourselves thouroughly.

This gig was one huge shock out of the blue but we were all happy we got to perform.

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Long Time - No Post

hey anyone who still cares to read this, It's been since like Oct./07 since my last post and for this, I appologize. In this span of time, music has done many things for me (among other parts of life, but this is a music blog) it has opened my eyes up to different ways of thinking, taken me back to times of fun in the past and has gotten me thru some hard patches. So basically what I want to do with this post is talk about why music affects me. How? Why only certain songs? To be honest, I don't have an exact answer. But! I do have an oppinion, and I plan to share it.

Certain moods require a specific sound to either

A) Enhance the mood aka happy music, dance music, makeout music etc
or
B) Change the mood aka metal music to get the anger out, meditation music to calm stress

Depending on what mood I happen to be in, I listen to certain types of music.
Here's a list of mood-music for myself personally

Angry - Metal/Rap EX: (Metallica/Eminem)
Happy - Classic Rock, Up-Beat Indie EX: (Guns n Roses/Johnathn Coulton)
Sad - Calmer/Somber music EX: (Linkin Park, Ne-Yo)
Dance - HipHop/Reggae (club) EX: Dj Khaled/Akon/Pitbull)
Tired - Old Rock EX (Lynard Skynard, Eagles)

Those are just a few of my mood-tunes depending on the situation im in, my mood and even the time of day.

As for what exactly makes a song special to one single person, it must (in my oppinion) come down to a personal connection that person has to the song wether it be the music, the lyrics or even the pure emotion of the song.