Friday night was rockin'. A 3 hours rehearsal followed by two more hours of live playing as people kept showing up at our rehearsal spot, basically turned our studio night into a 5 hour, hot, sticky jam party. It was a total blast - we even got flashed by an excited passerby (female of course!) which kinda makes the whole 'being in a band' thing worthwhile :-)
We've got three brand new songs that are just killer, but one of them, "Just Wanna Hold You" is getting freakishly amazing feedback from everyone who hears it - we can't wait to get some new recordings done!
Saturday was one of those 'a little bit of this, a little bit of that' days where we got stuff done, bailed on our plans (yet again...) to go to Play Land, and also bailed on our plans to attend the North West Metal Fest in Chilliwack. Lots of friends were playing there, and every one of them says the show was amazing. Oh well, I suppose there's always next year.
On Sunday, I hiked The Stawamus Chief (now that's a lot of rock!) with BobDog and Scotty Dogma
As you can tell by both of their bio pages, they rock climb a lot - and even on a simple hike, I was way out of my league - but, we managed to make it to the top within an hour, and I took lots of pictures while Scotty dangled Bob over the edge. Pictures coming soon - trust me, you won't want to miss these ones...
So anyway, it's two days later now, and I'm one stiff and achin' dude right now. I've got sore muscles that for the life of me, I can't even figure out how I used 'em.... like pecks, triceps, abs, lats, delts ... I don't remember using much upper body on the hike, but it's ALL sore ... calves definately the worst though. I'm SO out of shape, it's pathetic.
Regardless, Bob and I still managed to get out to the Cobalt for an hour on Sunday night to pay respects ... yup, that was the last night for the Cobalt. It's gone. History. Closed, caput, fini. But boy was it packed Sunday night - it was quite a party. I was never fond of that place, in fact, I've downright hated it at times - but one thing WILL be missed... it's not the piss smell or the bar fights or the swill, it's the Hardcore community. Without the Cobalt, there's nowhere left to go... It's the end of an era, or perhaps the beginning of a new one - only time will tell.
Oh - I know I said I wasn't going to plug the bands to much on my blog page (put the band plugs on your band pages, man!) But I've just gotta say that over the next few weeks we've got oodles of shows in the works between Scarecrow Balcony and Randomblind.
So far, for sure there's August 21st at the Anza, with Randomblind and September 8th at the Showroom with Scarecrow - but there are also shows in the works for September 1st, 4th, and a good line on the Fairview September 13th. Don't hold me to any of this yet, if it ain't on the band webpages, it's not officially true - but since this blog is MY forum, I can feel free to express my excitement about having a lot of shows in the works... right?