Saturday, 11 July 2009

• Low Pressure Zones and Power Trios

  Wednesday:
  After camp and the required after camp shower (where I suds up and literally watch the dark water go down the drain), my mom and I went out to Tim's house sinced his mom needs to do something with a skirt of hers for her graduation reunion. And we had a cookout.

  The really cool thing with Tim is that he's one of those friends from way back when in grade school, you know? So even though at the end of the day he's a guy who works two jobs most everyday and has a girlfriend who may/may not be getting engaged to (I've heard rumours), and I'm...whatever the hell you'd call me, whenever we hang out it turns into two guys playing vidja games and enjoying themselves on a level so basic you almost have to go back years to see it happen. We played Left 4 Dead, Rock Band (drums on hard=bad idea when you don't know what the song is), and some old school Super Smash Bros Melee, and...it was really cool. Simple. And with his family of his mom, dad, and little sister (imagine a younger Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter movies) I'm able to go into a comedy/light hearted mode. It's nice.

  Thursday:
  After camp and a quick stop by Rachael's ("We made Blake Cake!" "Why's it called 'Bla--'...you used chocolate and vanilla, didn't you?"), I grabbed my guitar gear and went with Count to Andy's house to jam out for awhile. Andy does drums, Count does bass, I do guitar, simple enough. They're four years ahead of me, and had a band all through college, so they knew how to recover and make shit up and...ah, it was a fun time.

  Whenever I play with other people, I learn something and this time I learned that 1. I've gotten a lot better than last time when I was with With (or Without) Reason, 2. My playing style's shifted more towards rhythm playing 3. I'm open to looser ideas and jamming around more than I used to be and 4. I need to play with people waaaaaaaay more often.

  We played/butchered all sorts of covers (Weezer, blink, Ok Go, Raconteurs, White Stripes, Hooty and the Blowfish), jammed around with the blues ("How does every guitarist I've ever met know that riff?!" "Find any rock/blues guitar playbook on earth and open it, that riff is page one, I guarantee it") and a jam entitled "What Happens When Blake Plays a G? This!".

  It's been a really fun week.

  -CnG

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