Yesterday, Jeremy and I met with the fifth drummer that I've auditioned for this group. Fortunately, I think our search for a stable and capable drummer might be over. Erich, the guy we met up with, is a friend of our bassist Doug and is also technically connected to me too via our high school connection (he graduate three years before me though, and I was only peripherally aware of him).
Anyway, Erich works as a creative sound engineer at the Riot Atlanta post-production studios in town, so since we couldn't use Doug's rehearsal space while he was out of town with his cover band, we met at Riot. There, Erich set us up with headphone mixes of all our instruments, and we basically ran through everything we've been working with.
Ultimately, Erich and Brady (our third drummer to try out) are both good fits for the band in terms of performance skills, but Erich is certainly the more available of the two, as Brady most-likely will not be able to do weekend gigs, so I think we've more-or-less decided to stick with Erich.
So now we've got to get Emily (our backup singer/keyboardist) up to speed enough to run full rehearsals, and then we've got to audition a fill-in keyboard player for me (more on that later), so I'm thinking we should be in business to start doing full rehearsals and recording real demos by October (since I'll be gone for most of September). Making progress!
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