Turnstile Blues

Money situation is bleaker than ever, but I don't wanna talk about that.

I've been listening to Failure a lot lately, the album Fantastic Planet might be one of the best things I've heard since I first discovered Electric 6. Those two bands are not even comparable so I don't know why I made that comparison but what's done is done and the backspace key is all the way at the other end of the keyboard. Point is- I like Electric 6 a LOT and I think I like Failure as much as I liked Electric 6 at the beginning.

Speaking of Electric 6 though, their new album Kill was so good. It was the hits, sir. The hits.

Anyway my love for Failure got me looking into their other projects. Failure was around during that whole grunge alt-rock thing in the 90s, and although they had that anti-harmony thing that all grunge era bands had, they also had some space rock-shoegazey stuff in there as well. They never really had a ton of success commercially (I guess Paramore covered one of their songs and named their E.P Summer Tic after a line in a Failure song, that's something, people listen to Paramore right?), but they had a lot of friends in the music industry. The drummer from Failure went to form this band Autolux that I've just started listening to. They're a three piece shoegaze alt rock band that is just wonderful. I had a moment where I looked at their video for Turnstile blues when I felt remarkably sexist for a second. When watching it I thought "holy shit, the drummer is a chick? But the drums are so good!" then I thought about what I had just thought, and felt bad for a while. I'm not sure where I got the notion that girls can't be good drummers, seeing as lots of bands I love have girl drummers. Maybe I was more surprised that she was wearing a dress. Yeah let's go with that.

All this shoegaze and alt rock stuff aside. I have an idea for a band that could actually work out provided that other people showed any interest. I have a keyboardist, a violinist, a flautist and myself playing bass all worked out. They would probably be willing to do it, time allowing. But we don't have a drummer, which is sort of a thing that we require. I KNOW a couple of drummers but they're both busy with too many other things to be considered. I don't want a guitarist though, I figure the flute and violin can trade off leads and melodies and things. I'll just play bass, if we need it to sound guitarish, I'll distort the bass, or the violinist can distort the violin. It'll be goooood.

God I need some time/money/distortion pedals.