I'm in a band.
It's beginning to be an embarrassing thing to admit... but that doesn't mean I intend to quit any time soon.
This is our beloved Hammond organ. It hardly works most of the time, but it serves as a shrine to our musical home,
The Packhouse.
The band is comprised of myself, my boyfriend Alex, and our friend Martin. None of us are confined to one instrument. Martin sings in addition to playing guitar and bass, Alex usually plays drums but he frequently ventures to bass and guitar, and I play equal amounts of guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards. We have an understood system for making all of this work.
We've been playing together for many years now. There are a few shows, but mostly we make horrendous recordings in an old shed that we lovingly call The Packhouse. It is massive and its atmosphere cannot be matched. It has no heat or air, but it does have countless forgotten objects from the past 50 years. A tanning bed, broken Coke machines, multiple copies of the same Elvis Christmas album, giant plastic kittens, you name it, it's in there.
I'd like to share a recording with you. You might not like it at all, but we do. It's an extremely low-quality, hardly listenable version of one of our many original songs, Magnation. This track features Martin on vocals and bass, Alex on drums, and myself on guitar.
MAGNATION
Someday soon, I hope to provide you with a cleaner, more soberly performed example. Until then, good luck to your eardrums.
That organ is awesome! Billy and I have a Christmas album we made, but it's not a "real" one. We sell it in construction paper envelopes that we paste our picture on. High class. I think we have sold three haha. We should do a trade!!!
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ReplyDeleteAt first I thought you were suggesting that we trade the organ for your Christmas album! I was taking this into deep consideration when I realized that you meant the Elvis album. We may trade, but I must warn you that they are faaar beyond playing condition! In the mean time, I think High Class is a candidate for a band name. We need one desperately.
ReplyDeleteAlex bought a second organ since I posted this. It's a really bad organ, but at least it works well. We keep it in our tiny apartment and it makes us look like crazy people.