feeling like some old rock-dinosaur right now. two bands that i was part of kind of merged together into one. it took 8 people and about 12 years to get to the point where we are now. both bands did mostly own songs with a few covers in between, but the styles were quite different. while the first one was kind of a dusty southern rock band the other one was a ….ida know…. hardrock band with lots of keyboards and ….i hate describing music – they were different. period.

as a matter of fact, due to some interesting incidents and one very sad and tragic loss along the way we’re finding oursleves united as one band. and this makes for an intriguing challenge. first, the songs need to be changed to fit the current lineup. but the really interesting thing is to get all the songs to work in this one band. we started with one cover and two songs of the southern style band and they ended up sounding quite different than before. the next rehearsal will be about one song of each band and one cover. and this time it’s songs we haven’t played in a loooong time. after fighting the memory problems it will be about stripping the tunes to what matters and dressing them up again in the new sound of the merged band and i have absolutely no idea what this will be like – love it!

i’d like to post some of the material here as soon as there is any. right now it’s mostly about finding out who’s playing what and checking out alternatives. but eventually there will be finished pieces of music, ready for your amusement….