Catchup (October to March)

Wow. I didn't know making a blog was so easy.

This post will kind of summarize most of what we did from October to March. Enjoy.

So where do I start? Hmm. Well, I was originally going to write a stereotypical opinion blog about daily news, but I decided to pursue something more original and more personal. That's why I'm blogging for/on behalf of my band.

Name?

Still pending. We'll have one soon, at latest by our next performance.

Who's in it?

Me (Evan Yao) - vocals, guitar
Kushal Ranjan - guitar
Mark Taboda - guitar
Cole Manaster - bass guitar
Sebastion Hercher - drums

Style?

We all listen to metal and heavier rock. Kind of separate from the norm, I know, but it's pretty sweet; don't loud guitars, gritty vocals, and crashing drums give you a rush!?

A little history:

We formed around October. I don't remember when. Back then I didn't have an electric guitar, so I borrowed one of Kushal's (he has three).

In our first few months we started playing basic songs for basic coordination, since this whole "band" thing was kind of new to us (Kushal being the only exception). The Beautiful People (Marilyn Manson) was a good beginning song for us - easy chords, familiar song to all of us.

Next we moved on to slightly more difficult songs. I mean, the songs we played weren't hard at all, but its way different playing alone than with a whole band.

Around January we started taking things more seriously. Enter Sandman* (Metallica) was our next song on the playlist.

*The original music video had around 8, 9 million views. Copyright issues took a lot of YouTube music vids down recently.

We finally performed live for the first for our class meeting (freshmen only) on March 3rd. Our timing was off, my singing was horrible (people thought it was okay for my first time though), but we had a lot of fun and received much enthusiasm and positive encouragement from our peers. Here's the video of our performance.

Now? We're really taking things seriously. We're organizing longer setlists and coming up with more songs to play. In today's band practice we covered a couple more songs. WOOP WOOP!

When will we perform next? Maybe in three, four weeks. Until then, keep up the support!

Evan Yao