The view from stage

As I wrote somewhere in this blog already, I was in a band, in the 90s, and we existed from 1994 to 2001. Actually, we kept on rehearsing and putting sketches of songs on tape (and on audio file) until 2004, but we basically ceased to be everyone's favourite active indie pop band (only in my dreams, of course) in 2001, when we played live for the last time.
It was the 21st of July. So it's exactly 10 years now.
I remember it was so windy, just like today (in Sardinia).
Ten years... aargh!!
I definitely need something carelessly happy, and pop, and live, to cheer me up a bit.
Here it goes:

Pulp - Disco 2000 (1995)

Oops! I gigged again

It's been more than a year since the last time I grabbed a guitar.
I thought I wouldn't fall into temptations again, but... it happened.
Last week, in a rehearsal room.
And.. uh! I wasn't alone.
So I think I can state that I play again in (a sort of) a band, somehow.
We're only in two, so far. Me on bass and voice and a friend of mine on guitar.
A third member is going to join us soon. A real bass player. So I'll switch to rhythm guitar.
And by the end of the month we would succeed in dragging a drummer, too.
This is the nth time I try to make music again. But this time it's different!! Promise!

While checking amps, microphones and volumes, we wanted to put our sense of rhythm to the test.
I'm not a big fan of so called "math rock" (like "Don Caballero", for instance); even if I was, I wouldn't be able to play anything "mathematic".
The most complicated thing that came to my mind was "Vasoline", by the Stone Temple Pilots.
Yes, it's not tortuous at all, on a rhythmic level, and.. yes, I'm a very poor guitar player (yet excellent songwriter, oh yes yes yes!).
But that song is marvellous.
(Original video here, and here)

Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline (1994)