10/07/04 06:52 - ID#30423
Free Cargo Van
Later E-peeps ( I can say that this should be the last time you ever hear drama like this come from us)
Jay has spoken
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/07/04 09:38 - ID#30422
Not sure what you want...
I've thought about this a hundred times since monday. How to tell you what happened but without bringing any unnecessary drama to a situation that, in my opinion, was squashed the night it happened.
So I'll just tell you my perspective of it and why it happened.
We were having what I would call a good band practice, I was having a lot of fun at least. I was also drinking gin. Not that this has any bearing on what happened in my opinion, but the aftermath I did say some things that were pretty fucked up but I felt like I was being attacked verbally at that point, and especially when I'm drinking I'll let a verbal barrage come out in full force.
So nick was only gonna be able to jam for another 20 mins and I had thought we had covered everything in practice that we needed to cover. Not that we plan out a practice but I thought the purpose of the practice was to finish up some songs for a demo, and we had gone over the songs that we were going to use for a demo. So then we started playing songs just to jam them out (my perspective), and so nick can hear them again, cause he's only practiced with us a couple times. So I went upstairs for a recycling of the fluids, some going out, some going in. Well they stated playing without me, so I came downstairs and jumped into the song, and they stopped. So we started it again, and it got fucked up, so after some jib jab back and forth we started it up again. Now at this point I just started riffin off the song, stuff I thought sounded good. I could see the looks from bill and jay like what is he doing. We do this a lot, little looks back and forth. Anyways they stop and this is when everything went haywire.
After I was told to stop ruining "my" song ( i won't say who said that but you know who you are) I said some stuff about somebody learning their scales they'd realize I was playing a really cool riff. Then I was told that they couldn't play when I play like that. That's when I pulled my plug and said fine you can't play with me fuck you guys I'm done. That's when the real hurtful stuff rolled out of my mouth. I'll tell you why. These guys want to be in a band that can vary it up, I don't like the word jam band because it conjours up images of 20 minute songs, but essential an improv musical group where we can riff off each other and change up the songs. Well if we never practice different things how do we know if it will fit. Then to be told that they couldn't play when I was improving was just the nail in the coffin.
Being told that they couldn't play with my riff because they felt it was out of place and out of time was not only hurtful, but it goes against everything they want to become. So I told them I was getting tired of playing these songs anyways. Which came out wrong cause I was drunk, I wanted to say I'm tired of just playing the songs regular, I wanted to jam it out a little, but by then everyone was already yelling...well except nick he wasn't yelling....then I was told that leaving practice was a bitch move. Boom!!! I blew up. Well on several occasions band mates have threatened to quit the band if their demands weren't met, I wasn't quitting I was only finished with practice for the day. So I saw my leaving band practice as less of big deal than my band mates.
So anyways we pretty much talked everything out that night, but I'll tell you I was so pissed at them that I couldn't remember why I had walked out until yesterday. Saying hey dan take it down a notch we want nick to learn this one, or dan we want to really work on this one...those are things to say to your drunk bassist...telling him you can't play with him when he's doing "stuff like that" will only elicit a response of the plug being pulled.
So who knows if this will lead to more drama, I hope we are past my chapter. I wanted to explain to them as well as you a little better
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out what happened. I apologized to bill and jay for walking out, nick sorry I know you come all the way out to practice, and you were sick on top of it.
This will happen with a band who lives together, we're only people.
-dan goes back to his job that he's been ignoring for an hour-
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/05/04 01:52 - ID#30421
Sorry Nick
But don't worry, we're ok.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/04/04 02:41 - ID#30420
Strange Weekend!!!!!
Later Elmwood
P.S Sorry for any spelling errors I was in a hurry!!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/02/04 02:22 - ID#30419
You must stay tuned!
Everyone in NPP has access to this journal. Therefore, one of us may write something, and a half hour later someone else must take it down. Or I might post a really funny pic and then take it down before any of the band has a chance to see it (heehee). Or we may add comments to an existing journal, none of which bumps up our standing on the strip.
My advice to you is to check NParkProject on a regular basis. Like 12 times a day.
Question for our future and present listeners:
What do you want to hear and see on our journal?
email us your answers
or email us if you want us to walk down elmwood and play as we walk down elmwood
billy checks out
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Location: Buffalo, NY
09/29/04 05:59 - ID#30418
Just saying "whats up"
Whats up folks?
Just wanted to say whats going on to all of the people on the elmwood strip!
Hopefully NPP will be getting together this weekend to go over some songs and decide what's going to go on the future demo.
My friend Matty might be able to hook us up with a good deal in the studio he built in his basement...I'll have to talk to jay, bill & dan about it...
-nick rolls out-
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Location: Buffalo, NY
09/29/04 12:06 - ID#30417
Some behind the scenes stuff
Jay and Bill are being bitches, and since I'm in the middle since I live in the same housing structure as them I'll tell you the drama which has unfolded...then folded back up. Jay was pissed that bill put a picture of him online. So Jay erased it. Then Bill got pissed that Jay had enough time to log on and erase his picture but not enough time to write a journal entry. So Bill went and changed the password to this journal and put the picture back up.
While most bands are arguing because they are alcoholics or drug addicts my band argues because they are girls and don't want their pictures on the internet. Guess what I don't like my picture either. I'm leaving it up. The other one I had to take down because it could've meant my job.
Anyways I think those two douchebags solved their problems tonight before I came to work. The picture was taken down, and we need to ask permission on any picture that's put up. We are moving ahead. We're think practice either sat or sun. We're gonna finish up some songs for a demo so we can play out. A demo is key to getting gigs. We need one.
-dan leaves feeling better that he vented-
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Location: Buffalo, NY
09/28/04 01:22 - ID#30416
Nick Signing on...
Hello folks...My name is Nick and I'm that dude playing the drums.
Just want to let everybody know that I love the band and I am looking forward to jamming/recording/playing out/etc. with NPP.
You down with NPP? Yeah you know me!
We have only jammed together 3 times and I can already tell that this is going to be something amazing...
That's all for now...I'll post again soon!
-Nick signs off for now...-
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Location: Buffalo, NY
09/25/04 04:22 - ID#30415
Today
So in just under 16 and a half hours the band will make it's debut with a drummer, to a select audience of friends and family at my new apartment. Bill, Jay and I had a quickie jam today to try and figure out some endings and figure out which songs we're going to play, looks like the set list will be
Sunshine
Now
Micheal Shea's
Kate
hills of tomorrow
UVO (ultra-vection-oven jam)
Bitter End
I'd like to do them in that order too, but I guess we'll talk about that later today.
eh I have nothing else to write
-dan's mind curls back up into a ball-
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Location: Buffalo, NY
09/23/04 02:35 - ID#30414
Jay comes out of hiding
Jay crawls back under his rock :(
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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