"Tonight tonight oh oh" written by Nparkproject on estrip.org

09/18/04 03:34 - ID#30409

Tonight tonight oh oh

Dan In

So I woke up to my alarm going off tonight followed by some music wafting through the house like the sweet smell of bbq on a lazy sunday afternoon. I thought it was the tv, but it wasn't so I went out the back door of the house to see if someone was playing music in our yard, but the sound actually got less and less as I stepped out onto the back porch. Then as I wiped away the sleep from my eyes I realized it was jay singing an unfamiliar tune. So I started doing the dishes, cause they were piling up, and jay came up stairs. He told me he had just written a new tune. He told me it was the one he was playing. So as I ate and did the dishes, I listened to him sing the song. I took a shower and when I was done bill had just gotten home, so we all decided to go get some beer and play for little bit.

I wasn't too hyped on the idea of playing, we played last night and it sucked, in my opinion, it just seemed like we were all out of sync. So I wanted to take a break, but jay seemed really eager to hear what kind of bassline I would write for his new song, so I promised I'd come down and play it for a little bit. I think my unconscious mind had already worked out a bassline, cause it only took me like 5 minutes to come up with something solid, that I can work with. I don't think I'll deviate too much though, I like how it sounds. We played a couple more tunes, but I had to roll to work. So here I am at work.

Later today (cause it's saturday) I think we're gonna have a drummer come down and help us with some of the songs.

I'm diggin the new logo. I can't wait to play out, I'm getting bored of just practicing all the time...short attention span or something.

dan out

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09/17/04 04:09 - ID#30408

Gripes

Billy says:

I'll start with myself - I have a short temper.

Dan is paranoid.

Jay is a defeatist.

We all get bored easily.

Jay's friend Matt was over last night with his girlfriend Tess. Matt has heard Jay belt out songs before but he wouldn't sing in front of Tess at first. ARGHHHH!! The killer is, the songs are written for vocals, without the vocals, they sound really repetitive. My new stance is, sing or I'm not playing. Not to be a dick or anything, but I don't like playing them without the vocals over them. It's time to move on.

What does my paranoia have to do with anything, before you photoshopped the picture I could've gotten in trouble, buffalo=small town. I could get fired for promoting the compitition, or atleast blacklisted, okay so I'm paranoid. As for bill saying he won't play he's half joking, i think, but we do need jay to sing the vocals all the time, in fact I think we all agreed to sit down and write some lyrics and finish up some of the 12 songs we've written.

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09/16/04 07:35 - ID#30407

Billy master of common sense!

Sorry to disappoint you Billy!!!!

I don't get it.

it's sarcasm

I understand that it's sarcasm. I just didn't get.

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09/16/04 05:24 - ID#30406

Hee Hee!!! - billy

You down with NPP? I never understood dorks who wear their own band's shirt.

Tis Dan

Billy put a picture up of me in a shirt that I can't be seen wearing. That might cost me my job, so I had to delete this one.

Jay

- did'nt want first impression being one were I'm is openly telling everybody to f*** off!! It just does'nt seem right!!!!

Don't worry, I took care of that.

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09/16/04 03:11 - ID#30405

Checkin in

I gotta make this quick cause i'm at work but Dan I was reading personal and I understood what you said a couple of days ago. DON'T WORRY ABOUT A THING, I was'nt mad I totally understood if anything i showed me there are things I gotta start getting together. Anyway I figured you'd probably read this before i got to talk to you! Anyway I really want to get smashed and play tonight you guys gotta let me know if you can, it's an important ex-girlfriends Birthday today so I gotta figure out what I am doing! Whenever is fine with me.
Later!

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09/16/04 09:29 - ID#30404

The Search is On

tis Dan,

So the search for a drummer is on. If anyone is a drummer you can contact us at our email below. I also put a classified ad up at

. I've gotten 2 repsonses, one from a guy who's in a band, but said he'd come down and jam with us so we could get an idea of what a good beat will sound with our songs. Which is cool because we need to perfect these songs, ideally we want someone who doesn't have any attachments so we could have them all to ourselves, but hey we'll take what we can get for right now...the other guy said he's come down if we lived close, I haven't heard back from him yet :/

So the search continues, I 'd really love to bring in my old drummer from high school, he was amazing, but of course with great talent goes great problems. He basically dropped off the face of the earth, I remember once in high school he slept in a dumpster after running away from home, so he might be dead now, I lost track of him about 2 years ago.

Jay an I played a little but last night, I'm having mad problems with the chorus to one of the songs, it's like I'm missing a note or two, what sucks is that I'm not sure were the riff should go. I'm kind of mentally stuck on it. I think I might need to free up my head with some gin, or maybe this weekend after I work one of my long shifts the sleeplessness will help me. I also need to still get a set-up done on the bass, get new strings and have them adjust the action on it. My fingers are killing me from playing it. Although it might be all this typing I'm doing lately...nah it's the bass.

Rachel - thanks, i wasn't sure if it was a good idea but after some prompting from Paul and intrest in the idea from band mate and reality tv hater Bill, I figured we had to do this. Just wait till we start talking about practices, it's might get a little crazy here

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09/15/04 08:10 - ID#30403

Hi I'm Jay

What's up everyone! Sorry for not coming on sooner and introducing myself but as Billy put it I am computer illiterate so I tend to avoid logging on!! I'll start out by telling you a little bit about how I started playing. Since I was in 4th grade I played the saxophone in my school band and jazz band. i enjoyed it for a while but it got to the point where I hated lugging that bulky saxophone case to school everyday. Any way music has always been my biggest interest and I knew that pursuing my talent was always something I wanted to do. So my senior year of high school (About two years ago) I skipped school on a cold winter day and went over to a friends house. It was there that i saw a friend play the guitar for the first time. I was so intrigued by the way he could play any song that was requested and how natural his hand was moving along the board. I instantly thought of how I needed to be able to do it!!! So an hour later I was in a music shop trading in my bulky sax for a guitar. Putting it lightly my mom was pissed but she later realized it was the best decision I had ever made! I have been playing for to years now and not to sound conceded but I consider myself a natural! There is nothing I enjoy more that picking up my guitar and letting my creative juices flow. Now back to the present!. I meet Dan and Billy and things just clicked! We where playing together for two weeks and we where writing songs, that to me are unbelievable! Although we are in the beginning stages I feel that we have potential that is unmatched to anything I have heard in a long time!!! So in closing I hope this site is a good outlet to show you just what I mean. So keep updated this band is gonna be big!!!

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09/14/04 05:34 - ID#30402

Digging the Attention

Billy says:

Wow, we created this journal only 2 days ago and we already have over a hundred hits! I'd like to thank our boy Eric for volunteering his services to create a website for us. Eric has already started a design for a logo. Eric works for the same company Jay works for along with my brother-in-law Ian. Ian actually introduced Jay and me when I was in the process of buying my house last year. Funny how things turn out. We hope to be playing out again very soon, probably another coffee shop during an open mic or something. I'm working nights now and weekday evenings are pretty much out.

Thanks for the attention, and I hope to have something for you all to comment on really soon.

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09/14/04 09:20 - ID#30401

The spot jam and other intriging things

Oh yeah I was mad nervous at that first jam. I had only been playing with these guys as their bassist for a week. Yeah!! only a week coming up with bass licks that sounded good in the songs. I was not only nervous about playing but I was nervous that the riffs I had didn't fit the songs. I didn't have a strap either so I got stuck in the chair...you know how hard it is to sit like that and play...well let's say it's less than comfortable. I was so nervous I forgot the intro for the last song we came up with like two days before the show. All this and I had to act calm to show jay that I wan't nervous. I think if he'd had known how nervous I was he wouldn't have played. Hopefully he'll sign on soon and intro himself.

As for the second jam at spot, I was less nervous, although as billy mentioned I had a chick I was trying to hook up with come to the jam, so I was uneasy about that. It was packed at the second jam, but I felt more comfortable playing the songs. I didn't get hammered like bill and jay did, I just had a hot coco...how fucking rock and roll is that?..hehehe.

I really can't wait to play out again, I mean at that point we only had 6 or 7 songs that we could play as a band, now we have closer to 14. My big push now is trying to get a drummer. I had brought a friend of mine in for three practices and it just didn't seem right, he was a decent drummer, but everything seemed to sound the same. Not very inspired. As for now though I want to try and hit up another spot jam, or maybe even a paid show somewhere, I just want to play out and see what people think of the newer songs...newer being relative because we've only been playing as a cohesive band for like a month.

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09/13/04 07:34 - ID#30400

Spot Coffee - August 9, 2004

Left to Right: Billy, Jay, Dan

Billy

This is a picture taken by our good friend Lee. It was at Spot Coffee for their open mic night about 5 weeks ago. It was our first time playing out in front of people we didn't know. Dan and I had to strong arm Jay into playing that night. We each only had one drink at Crocodile Bar right before we played, ie. not enough to calm anyone of our nerves. We even played a little hacky sac in the parking lot before we went on, something to burn off the excess energy. We finally went on after what seemed like forever. The guitars we played didn't have pick ups in them and we couldn't hear what each other was playing. Two of the three songs we played had solos that I improvised on the spot. The 3rd one I don't even use a pick. My hands wouldn't stop shaking. We made it through all 3 songs and the crowd seemed to enjoy us even though we left out the vocals. The manager of Spot offered to have us come back anytime for cash but we would have to fill 2 hours. I told him that we would get back to him. Later that week, Jay and I bought electric acoustics so we could plug into amps.

Two weeks later we returned to open mic at Spot. This time armed with a bottle of 100proof Southern Comfort and guitars with pick ups. Dan was entertaining a prospective girl and her friends. Jay and I kept running to my car to entertain that bottle of SoCo. We went on much earlier and some of our friends made it out to support us. We did 2 instrumentals and performed "Sunshine" with vocals. It was too funny. I start the song with fingerpicking and then Jay comes in strumming his guitar. The bass comes in when he feels it and then Jay is supposed to sing. It came right to that spot and he looked at me and said he couldn't do it. I told him that he had to, and believe it or not, he fucking did! He was a little quiet at first but found his voice and sang a great version of the song.

Dan, fill in the gaps.

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