Rock, easy on the Roll
Band practice went well last night, spurred on by the appearance of groupies tejp, lsowersby and hepstar. We discovered an interesting feature of non-LJ John's guitar amp, which seems to automatically increase in volume when there are ladies present. Weird.
The first attempt at our first original song (the metallically titled "New Dark Age") was very pleasing, despite the fact that there's a weird pitch change between the chorus and the second verse which I currently persist in missing in a most amusing manner.
The song has evolved through a variety of stages largely because I find lyric writing rather strenuous especially when trying to fit said lyrics to an existing tune. I mentioned this to the original tunesmith, non-LJ Gareth (guitarist the second), who responded with "Duh! Vikings!" as the only subject you need for metal. He then went on to provide half a song of quality cheese. You will notice I am not specifying what quality this particular cheese actually had.
Discontent with the viking theme, I want through a couple of other rock staples:
"My ex-girlfriend was so shit" - scrapped because so were the lyrics, and whiny too.
"I have a cool car (but there's no back seat so I can't get laid)" as ripped off from another tejp number was also scrapped because I couldn't make it fit.
Finally settled on the rather prosaic "creationists in government are stifling progress" rant, which seems to work better than you might expect despite the US-centrism. Still, I reckon shaunotd will approve.
The assembled masses heard Fire by tejp and were all impressed, though I fear the lady still thinks she is being humoured.
The first attempt at our first original song (the metallically titled "New Dark Age") was very pleasing, despite the fact that there's a weird pitch change between the chorus and the second verse which I currently persist in missing in a most amusing manner.
The song has evolved through a variety of stages largely because I find lyric writing rather strenuous especially when trying to fit said lyrics to an existing tune. I mentioned this to the original tunesmith, non-LJ Gareth (guitarist the second), who responded with "Duh! Vikings!" as the only subject you need for metal. He then went on to provide half a song of quality cheese. You will notice I am not specifying what quality this particular cheese actually had.
Discontent with the viking theme, I want through a couple of other rock staples:
"My ex-girlfriend was so shit" - scrapped because so were the lyrics, and whiny too.
"I have a cool car (but there's no back seat so I can't get laid)" as ripped off from another tejp number was also scrapped because I couldn't make it fit.
Finally settled on the rather prosaic "creationists in government are stifling progress" rant, which seems to work better than you might expect despite the US-centrism. Still, I reckon shaunotd will approve.
The assembled masses heard Fire by tejp and were all impressed, though I fear the lady still thinks she is being humoured.