The Kraken Wakes
Nov. 5th, 2005 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanWell, today should be interesting...
I have a rehearsal, in just over an hour, with the Joshua band - which I thought had ceased to be about a year ago. I wasn't that upset, or surprised, given the tendency for the other 2/3s of the band to spend most of their time stoned out of their gourds & playing computer games. But the band is back - I had a Jake Blues-style phone call from Joshua a week ago "I'm getting the band back together!"
Whether a mission from god is behind this or not, remains to be seen...
In the ensuing year of non-activity, my relationship with the drummer of the band has taken several sharp nosedives, never quite recovering before plummeting again, to the point now, where I can't be bothered to even be civil to him on the odd occasions we encounter each other socially. The other night, I received a text message from him demanding that we deal with our issues before the rehearsal & ordering me to a 'neutral' location for a face-to-face meeting. I declined the invitation & replied that either he phones me to do it... or not, I don't care either way. After some prevarication on his part, he eventually did - whereupon I told him that I was prepared to work with him on a musical & professional level, but nothing else. If he turns up today, or if he doesn't, I really can't bring myself to care...
Those of you that know me & have been following my musings over the last 18 months, will know my opinions about drummers & where they sit on the evolutionary scale. This is just another corroborating factual anecdote.
But I am curious to see what happens now... To be continued.
I have a rehearsal, in just over an hour, with the Joshua band - which I thought had ceased to be about a year ago. I wasn't that upset, or surprised, given the tendency for the other 2/3s of the band to spend most of their time stoned out of their gourds & playing computer games. But the band is back - I had a Jake Blues-style phone call from Joshua a week ago "I'm getting the band back together!"
Whether a mission from god is behind this or not, remains to be seen...
In the ensuing year of non-activity, my relationship with the drummer of the band has taken several sharp nosedives, never quite recovering before plummeting again, to the point now, where I can't be bothered to even be civil to him on the odd occasions we encounter each other socially. The other night, I received a text message from him demanding that we deal with our issues before the rehearsal & ordering me to a 'neutral' location for a face-to-face meeting. I declined the invitation & replied that either he phones me to do it... or not, I don't care either way. After some prevarication on his part, he eventually did - whereupon I told him that I was prepared to work with him on a musical & professional level, but nothing else. If he turns up today, or if he doesn't, I really can't bring myself to care...
Those of you that know me & have been following my musings over the last 18 months, will know my opinions about drummers & where they sit on the evolutionary scale. This is just another corroborating factual anecdote.
But I am curious to see what happens now... To be continued.
