lets talk about the music

so i htink i could takl about how ive never played a show, and basically how i've never really even begun my career, despite trying for years.

so uh, yeah, lets start at the beginning. well, a long tmie ago, i went to a school called qegs. thats where we took violin, piano, recorder lessons. as well as this, we'd also do vocals in the morning. they weren't really one on one, we'd do hymns. we also did also art things, acting, painting, and the like. even got us on computers.

but that's getting off topic. so we've uh, yeah, established that i've begun to learn music. in '91 i moved to chicago, and uh, i think that's when the music stopped. i did of course do the pledge of allegience, but there was no more uh, instrumentation or vocalization. in '94 i went back to qegs, and probably went back to all the same music things i'd been after for awhile. so then in '95 i went down to uh, ohio. a place called beavercreek. it was nearby the airforce base. one of the seven biggest ones in the country. wright patterson. they've also got a uh, air force museum. there's a town nearby called dayton. i'm actually sitting in beavercreek this very minute typing.

but getting on with it, my mother had taken me out to a, afterschool, sort of mix and match, kindof a thing, where they haded you different instruments, you tried 'em out and then moved on. i was best at clarinet, but being the romeo that i was, i went after a girl on the trombone, and that ended up being my instrument. we had a band instructor called mister stall, and he was pretty old with a moustache, and a uh, red face. but we used to do these excersizes with breathing. i usually managed to be the one who held the breath the longest. so things picked up when i learned this song basin street blues. basically it was the song that really i liked alot. i can still remember exactly how it goes. so in about 98 i went over to a school named mvs, and hopped into their jazz ensemble.

i think it was there that i met this kid called sean ali, well i definately met him there, but i think thats when i began thinking of guitar. i think i had one by freshman year. there was another kid called vivek mahajan. indian kid played guitar. he was a senior. when i was a freshman. anyway i saw him play on stage. it was amazing. the guy really got into the music. the music was pretty good. it was like rock n roll music. the kinda stuff i listened to when i was in england. but like, yeah. it was an indian dude. someone who looked kinda like me. and i guess thats what i needed at the time. see back in england i was fine. no problems. jsut one of the gang. it was when i came to america that all the problems kinda began.

but anyway, watchin the kid play, gave me kindof a reason to play myself. it kinda gave me permission to persue that. so anyway i took lessons, played in the jazz ensemble, wasnt very good at first, but kept at it, eventually got a standing ovation my senior year. then in college dropped out third year. and uh, yeah.

freshman year i basically met alot of people, people on my floor would be playin instruments. and just i guess watchin them gave me permission. so i worked hard at it too. because i always wanted to, i just needed to be around the right people who kidna made me feel like it was ok to do it. because of course the parents didnt give a shit. and my sister certainly didnt give a shit. but yeah. thats how those years were. it was cool there was a talent show. and uh... yeah. sophomore year moved into an apartment. joined three bands in a row, ran into vivek again, as well as some of the other ones, was in a band with this douchebag, very controlling individual, very jittery person, very antisocial, that didn't last very long. and uh, yeah. then there was snowden's silent canvas. then finally blackburn. blackburn became a solo band, and then i wrote for a couple years. a good close friend and collaborator died in 2006, my third year at school, and thats when i moved back home. but yeah. stopped music for a bit. then got back into it. mainly 08. also was into it when i had just arrived, i'd kept up the habit at first, but evetually stopped, so i imagine i did it in 06, and then very little work in 07, and then got back into it in 08. but yeah. now its 09. in the end of 08 i met my current bandmate. our bands called the welsh assembly.

now ive played a couple shows. ive done concerts with the jazz ensemble. i even did choir shows. ive done open mics. did shows and open mics with blackburn. nothing with snowdens silent canvas. this band is by far my most performed band. done quiet a few open mics. otherwise, no gigs yet.

and thats the thing. i suppose i ahve gotten one gig. through viveks friend. at the sheesha bar. what else. yep. that was the only one. otherwise ive only done open mics. ilike the open mics cause they get me on stage. otherwise i wouldnt really get any chance. but still, i definately want to do some paying gigs. anyway, yeah.

it really sucks because i havent eveer gotten a paid gig in all the years ive been playing music, but i guess when you lay it out, ive jsut been improving. but anyway, yeah. tahts me.

it just pisses me off when i hear that people like kendall are out there getting paid right now when there music isnt any good. its just, not cool.