Jan 04 2009
Another One of My Old Bands
While I should probably be posting another scale to practice, I’m feeling a bit on the self indulgent tip, so I thought I’d post a couple of MP3’s of another old band of mine.
Back in the 20th century, 1999 to be exact, I met a keyboardist named Russ on a newsgroup for fans of the band Ween. I posted that I played bass and wouldn’t mind playing with some other fans and Russ lived nearby and played keys. So I hopped the Metro out to PG County and we jammed a bit. Russ’ friend John played guitar and he came on board a few weeks later. We used the drum tracks from Russ’ keyboard for a while before having a couple of drummers. Russ and John wrote the songs and shared singing duties. We called ourselves Dirtpatch and we had a regular monthly gig in the basement of a house in College Park where a bunch of UMD kids would have shows. It was a lot of fun. We eventually broke up. Russ started playing accordion and doing a solo project called Milk Machine . John started A Cricket in Times Square . And I joined Captain Paradox who Russ had met at an open mic in DC.
Here are two MP3s from one of those basement parties. I think it was our first show with Travis, our first drummer.
