I was once in a band named Kanoodle, it started off just my best friend as guiter and me as bass. We were just trying to put some songs together with a drum machine and then have one of the guys I worked with at the time sing on some of the tracks. It was never anything that was supposed to be serious. One day an old friend called up my friend and said she was back in town for good and wanted to hangout. She came over one day while we were practicing and fooling around started singing along to some of our songs. She was actually really good so we asked if she wanted to sing for us. She wanted to be serious so she put out an ad for a drummer and a couple weeks later for the first time we had a full band practice. We wrote two songs that first day and put them on myspace even though we didn’t have the vocal tracks on them yet. A couple weeks after that we got asked to play a local music fest, a few weeks after that opening night at a new club. Before we had a chance to play any shows our drummer moved and our band was left incomplete once again.
I have a group of guys here in Baghdad with me that shows some promise for when we get home, but they have never heard me play so they are a little iffy about me still. Hopefully it all works out because ever since I had a chance to play and didn’t make it, I’ve always wanted to know what it’s like to play in front of a live audience.
