3rd Band Rehearsal

Last week we had our third band rehearsal (again, sans Emily)...at this point, having a weekly rehearsal is starting to become a fairly regular thing for us. It should be noted that this doesn't include the often twice-weekly rehearsals Jeremy and I have that mostly center around either refining older material on a compositional level or working on new stuff.

Anyway, last week's rehearsal was identical to that of the previous week in terms of both personnel and location, but the big differences here were that we had far less time to rehearse (Doug had to leave after about only an hour) and that it was here that Brady (Doug's drummer from his Sublime cover band) let us know how hesitant he is about committing to a new project, despite being really interested in the style and material.

The problem is that while Doug's financial investment with the cover band is largely a means towards augmenting his income from private teaching, Brady instead relies on the cover band for his entire income, which makes it much harder to put him in a position where he may have to make a choice between the two one day when our gigs conflict (which most-likely will happen, as the cover band often goes out of town for the whole weekend to play various gigs). Overall, we really like Brady as our drummer, but we're still going to keep looking at other options while maintaining the possible option of having Brady as a our main drummer with another drummer as backup for conflicts. We'll see how that turns out...