2nd Rehearsal @ Riot

This past Thursday, Jeremy, Erich, and I all met once again at Erich's studio (Riot Atlanta) for a partial-band rehearsal. Once again, Erich was nice enough to set us up with headphone mixes, and we went through a bunch of material. Unfortunately, my voice was already wearing down by the time I was driving over there, and it kept going during rehearsal; add to this the fact that I had had a shitty week (work-related and some relationship stuff) and you had a grumpy frontman on your hands. Once I realized I wasn't doing so hot, I admitted to my inability to run the rehearsal and encouraged Jeremy to take over for me.

Overall, the rehearsal was fine, but now I realize how important it is for me to be well-rested before trying to do any serious singing that day (I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before and the talking all day from teaching that day certainly didn't help). Afterwards, we all headed over to the Vortex for some band bonding...as it turns out, this was the first time we had done so with at least three of us in the group. It's funny: at this point, a number of people haven't met or at least rehearsed with one another in the group: thus far, no one's met Emily but me, no one (including me) has met/seen Jake in years, and Erich hasn't rehearsed with Doug yet (at least, not with this group), despite the fact that Erich was recommended by Doug.

Hopefully, we'll be remedying some of this later this week by having Emily join us at a rehearsal where she'll at least meet Doug and Jeremy for the first time, but it won't be until October that we can get everyone in the same room. Crazy how slowly this all develops despite our attempts to get the ball rolling...