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Hello.
Yeah.
I got the next 3 days off.
The next 3 days off. I’ve got 3 days off. Oh my God, what am I going to do?
Well, it was funny that I mentioned, Eric, in another post because I messaged him
Um, and he’s all like happy now and doing music with our pal, Rusty. Who played guitar in some projects? Yeah, that we did 10 or so years ago.
So that is great. I hadn’t talked to him in almost a year. He’s like what happened? You just fell off the face of the Earth
Yeah.
Oh, but it was great to talk to Eric because he seemed happy. He’s divorced now and actually has a cell phone. Haha The only thing is I was drunk and I told him I was going to come up there today and jam with him and it’s like I passed out but when I woke up, I was like, why in the hell? Did I tell him that? It’s I can’t. I got to get the CV joint fixed on this car. Before I can go anywhere like beyond the dollar store. I’ve been thinking about going, trying to go to Kroger Later.
But, I don’t know if I really want to drive that far because It did, like I went around a curve, uh, the other day. It was Thursday. Yeah. Not yesterday. Um, My brains.
I could go to the Star Market, though.
But Kroger has Delicious ribs. So, I mean and the whole chicken. Basically was wanting to get what I got. Last time I went to Kroger except not quite so much stuff.
I guess it is Memorial Day weekend. And I want to eat good at least 1 day.
But I’ve got to, uh, totally forgot to call the mechanic yesterday about the car about taking it in.
To get that fixed. So I’m going to see if he’s open today and call later on. But uh, I might have to wait until Tuesday, who knows?
Put in for a day off.
Uh, I used vacation time I put in for Wednesday, they haven’t approved it yet but I told my boss about it, I was like I got a car. I’m going to need to take a day off to get the tag.
But yeah, I got home yesterday. I got drunk. Just really drunk and was going back and listening to a lot of my old music. A lot of stuff, I’d recorded. Throughout the whole time. I had a recording studio. And some of that shit is so funny. Like the stuff, my friend Brandon did.
I remember, uh, we used to be the house band. At this place called the Courtyard Cafe, where my ex-wife used to hang out in Gadsden
Yeah, Alabama.
And uh,
We were the house band, but we did all kind of different shit. I had like my own acoustic music like I do now. You know, I would sing and play and then the band would play, you know, we would switch up stuff and take breaks because we’d play like, Friday and Saturday nights. Like, The whole night until like 2:00 a.m.
And uh,
Like 1. Yeah, sometimes 2:00 a.m. sometimes it would go that way, but I, I want to say, usually, we cut out around.
No later than 1 sometimes and all the people used to hang out there like all the young people from around that area from the Attalla and Gadsden area, and we met a lot of other bands. Uh, and, you know, networked and shit, got a bunch of fucking other shows.
But we were mostly like a cover band. Which is what is funny. That’s what most people when they get out and to go. You know, to places like that. That’s what they fucking want to hear.
And a lot of bands, make a lot of
Money. Being a cover band. Like the Velcro Pygmies. And which I’ve seen in, you know, I’ve seen them at the chestnut station a few times back in the day.
My ex-wife. Yeah, and her sister used to You know, every time they were in town and uh, Well.
Usually they played a show around the, uh, the holidays, the Christmas holidays, and she would come home and they would go, I would go with them. Sometimes, I don’t know, it was pretty cheesy, but it was fun. I think uh, I want to say they did a New Year’s show 1 year but I could be thinking of something else that was so fucking long ago.
But we played New Year’s Eve 1998. At the cafe. And that was, I mean there were Fuck. It was a tiny Place. Uh, Actually, I’m kind of like looking. I’m in the Breezeway, I’m looking back at the like the back.
Uh, The yard area. It was about that big. I don’t know. I guess you can’t see that from a blog post. Haha. I could take a picture but I won’t. It wasn’t a big place and there were probably 200 people there. It was insane. And, uh,
We kicked it off. Right at midnight we started playing Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine. I’m laughing about it as I’m saying that but the whole crowd started jumping you know when when the riff kicks in you know, like right at the beginning. That first note like everybody jumped at the same time and just started jumping, you know, and shit. And it was awesome. I was 18 at the time. I thought I was a fucking rock star. It was really funny.
What was even funnier is my ex-wife. Like she remembers all that shit, but we never interacted. She found our uh, Facebook our Facebook, our web page. Oh my God. What the hell brain? Uh, that’s back. When we all had web pages and guest books and shit, She signed in my guest book, it was like, you know, I was cute. Said I was cute and I started talking to her and 8 months later I worked up the nerve to ask her out on Valentine’s Day.
We were together for 18 years.
But what was my point? That all that. Oh yeah, I was going back and listening. To a lot of stuff I had recorded.
Nothing that far back though. Uh,
But, that band was fun. Haha we had a lot of Personality, clashes Though, cuz we were all so young and stupid with huge ass Egos and knew every damn thing and were competitive with each other. And like,
My friend, Justin was the main singer and he wanted to do uh, weird crazy like
Just out there crazy stuff because Justin’s a really creative intelligent abstract guy.
And I thought that stuff was cool. Uh, I wanted to be weird too, but uh, I don’t know. I’m like a different. Like a
Different kind of weird. I don’t know. And uh, Then the bass player, my friend Brandon.
That’s what that’s what I was. That was my point. Yeah, we used to be the house bad and he used to play, um, The song called the clap is about this chick who had a had the clap and uh she let everybody know about that and it’s a really funny song, it’s stupid but it’s like a great song and I finally recorded that. I think in 2012, he came over and we did a bunch of this his stuff, but he would, he had a, he had a solo acoustic set and all his songs were about You know. Just pornographic like crazy shit. And, uh, he could have totally gone off on his own and, um, done his own thing and probably found.
Success. Because his songs were so insanely like, just, Out there, uh,
With all these crazy things. Themes, like every song was about something. Some kind of crazy woman entanglement like, uh, He liked to go to strip clubs and fucking you know party. Haha I don’t know. I’m trying to think how To, I guess I can link to a song.
He had a couple of songs about midgets. He got he got on a kick, he was just fascinated. With them for a while and so he made up a bunch of songs about that.
But anyways. That’s what I was thinking but yeah, that band Just went off about a few different things, but we finally.
Stopped going to the cafe. We got kind of tired of the management. They lied about money a couple times. And, um,
But, The drummer just wanted to be a normal rock band. He didn’t want to be weird. He didn’t want to do weird crazy things, he didn’t want to have Uh, that was another thing. My friend Justin, he had a bunch of old Crazy looking baby dolls. He liked Putting nails in them and Nails in their faces and bottoms haha and uh like had them like hanging with Christmas lights, wrapped around their neck and strung everything up like all over our sets. And um, It was cool everybody like everybody liked it except the drummer they were brothers. I guess that was kind of the thing too. They were like they were always arguing and getting into it about shit.
And uh, you know, I didn’t really care so much. I just wanted to play guitar.
Go down. Okay, yeah, I think picked everything back up again. But yeah, I was known for like being able to play some pretty difficult. Things.
And a lot of other bands came through there, but nobody ever liked them as much as they liked us. I don’t know. We had a lot of like, presence and charisma.
I thought, you know, we were going to make it With that band, you know, we had a few originals but
It after I think about February of 99, everything started to fall apart. We kind of got burned out. And,
The drummer. Ryan who’s still 1 of my, you know? Pretty good friends too. He um, Went off and formed this band called 2:52 with some guys. Yeah, and they did, they were just like a normal rock band, but they were really good. I think the singer got into drugs, really bad.
Oh that’s right we did we reformed like later on that year? With a different drummer. With Mikey. Yeah. Oh my gosh all this stuff’s coming back in my brain? Yeah, and we did, we were weird. Yeah, we turned into this crazy, weird band and we stopped playing covers and we wrote all these fucking weird ass crazy songs. And I had a 7 string guitar.
And so everything was just super fucking heavy and, uh, but it didn’t really last that long. We got creatively like burned out with it because what we would go out and play shows and nobody really understood what we were doing. They didn’t like it that much. And that was discouraging.
And so, I guess that kind of, you know, Went to shit but it took a few months and then we formed me and Brandon. And Mikey and uh, he was from Huey Town, Alabama. It was kind of weird how he even ended up in Albertville. He met this chick. Uh on I think it was Yahoo messenger and uh they got to talking and became boyfriend and girlfriend. And his life was just this big pile of shit down there in Hueytown
And so she moved him up to Albertville and he was this
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Phenomenal, fucking Brilliant, drummer. I mean, the best drummer I’ve ever played with Like Mikey was. Fucking just, Mind-blowingly fucking good. And that’s what we needed though. Was a really good fucking drummer and he was
And uh, anyways, Analog Cracker we played several shows. And everybody loved it. We were like
We went to a recording studio and recorded an album. It was more of like a kind of a demo. It was like a Yeah, it was more like a demo, but it was a like, a real recording studio.
We felt, you know, awesome. Haha. We brought in this guy to play Live bass because Brandon wanted to jump around and all those crazy songs that he had written. You know, uh, made up or whatever. Uh,
Oh my gosh, I’m I’m just thinking about all this crap. But it was so heavy. We were like, oh gosh, just the heaviest fucking band but with the Brandon’s crazy lyrics and we were heavier than any other band around but it wasn’t like
But it was still like I guess? The only band I could compare it to would be like clutch. Mixed with uh, maybe scissor fight or something. Yeah.
Kind of comparable but we were a lot more weird.
Um,
Shit. I think I made a huge post about that on my other blog like a few years ago.
But um, Mikey got on heroin. Yeah, that’s what happened to that, band and
It sucked because that’s the 1 band that like I just I don’t know cuz we we did some covers too but they were all like Our versions of the covers. They were super fucking heavy. We did some bad company and just made it like just death, metal fucking heavy. It was, it was crazy. And everybody loved us. We played, uh, Several shows. Gosh, and we took a break for a little bit and uh, Mikey I think he went back to huey town. For a few months, uh, because of his mom, something happened with his mom. I think and he got on heroin And that was the I mean we we tried to like get him back, you know, like we didn’t really understand what we were dealing with.
Gosh, we were like
- Yeah, 21 back then. Mikey was 19
Well, anyways, I don’t know. I was just I was just thinking going off on a huge rant all this shit.
Guess, I’m just glad to have 3 days off. I’m really tired.
We were going to um yeah move that’s what. Yeah, we were going to like the 3 of us. We’re going to we kicked the bass player out we Fired him or whatever. Brandon got back on bass. And that was a big deal. That’s a long story too, but um, Yeah then we were going to like get all our shit and move somewhere with an actual music scene. And he got on heroin. That’s yeah. That’s what killed killed like all that shit.
Then we tried to start another band.
I don’t know.
But the next really cool band, we had was a couple of years later called the Skankabillys
And uh I played bass and it was my friend, Justin playing guitar and we brought our friend Nathan Uh it was like he was always a presence you know somewhere. We let him do stuff in Eunich. He was more of a punk rocker though, but he and Justin had gotten on this kick like uh They had gotten into shit like the cramps. Psycho Billy, you know, and stuff. And uh,
I wish I had some of the well I guess I do have some of that recorded on my external hard drive in my storage unit. And I need to
Get that thing working somehow because I lost the AC adapter to it and it takes some weird. Well, I think it’s just like 16 volts, but it takes like
A different kind of power adapter.
Um,
Just listening to all my old music. And stuff last night.
Let me think about everything I’ve done with music. You know, my whole life.
Oh shit. Now I’m tired.
It’s a nice 1.
Morning. Yeah.
I hope I’m not too loud. Well, I’m outside.
Anyway.
I guess there’s a part of me that still wishes music is all I really did, you know?
I’ve gotten so much stuff accumulated in the last few years, especially,
The last year, I lived in The Farmhouse. I did a lot of recording. And I was listening to some of that stuff too. And, uh, it’s funny like to see my voice to hear it. Like, how it’s evolved. I like my style and stuff. Uh, Now, I’m better than anything I’ve ever done.
A lot of the songs I made up at the second car factory. Really Like changed my perspective with songs and everything. It’s It’s kind of funny, you know, I guess I feel like I’ve evolved a lot as a musician.
Exponentially the last few years. Yeah.
Gosh, I don’t know what else to say here. That was a lot. I’m going to go back and it look through all that I might not even post this. I don’t know.
Thank you. Please.
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