7th (8th) Band-Recruiting Rehearsal

This past Saturday night, Jeremy called me to inform me that he had met a guy named Brett who was interested in trying out on drums for our group, so since Doug's co-Sublime cover band bandmate Brady was unsure of his own commitment level despite us being generally thrilled about the idea of having him in the group, we decided to give Brett a shot. So, Monday morning Jeremy, Brett, and I met at Jeremy's place to jam out with Brett using Jeremy's kit.

As you may or may not be aware, Jeremy is also a drummer himself, being the drummer for another local band I previously wrote about after seeing their show. Now, although Brett did end getting into the groove for the material and was certainly enthusiastic about his possible involvement in the group, the most-important thing I got out of this rehearsal was hearing Jeremy play drums to our songs. Naturally, I had heard him play before for his other group, but the styles were so different that I wasn't really able to assess how well he would fit in as our drummer in our yet-to-be-unnamed band.

Well, despite Jeremy's insistence that he would be a better fit for the group as our guitarist, I was pretty floored by how nicely his drum style fit in with what we're trying to do. It's possible that Brady might be a better fit than Jeremy as drummer, but if so, it's only a marginal difference. I mean, Brady WAS able to get the music pretty much straight away after only having been introduced to it moments before, but Jeremy's deep familiarity with the songs allowed him to dig a bit deeper at the onset. I'm sure Brady could get to this level too with no problem, but in some ways I really am frustrated that I can't have Jeremy play both guitar and drums in the band. Oh well...

As far as Brett is concerned, what we're probably going to do is meet up with him again in a week or two to see if the style has sunk in a little more for him, and then we'll weight our options. We've also still got one more drummer to audition left on our list, but he's not available until late August, so in the meantime, perhaps we'll keep trying things out with both Brady and Brett...

Note: I'm calling this our 7th (8th) band-recruiting because the entry titled "2nd Band Rehearsal" was actually our 7th recruiting rehearsal since it was then that we were trying out Brady for the first time.