Three rehearsals down, four songs each, 12 songs in the bag. We have a full set of tunes. Next rehearsal, we run through all 12 songs to freshen them up in our minds and work out the rough spots. We also have a name. We are Flashdrive. Sure, why not?
Every practice, I'm more and more impressed with our new singer, Anne, and she's more impressed with us. She openly marvelled at how fast we're putting songs together. Well yeah, but this is how it works in any decent band, as far as I know. Everyone learns the songs on their own, then you spend a few hours every two weeks putting them together. Through email, we agree on who's playing what, or what key it's in, if there's any question, otherwise everybody shows up ready to go. So four songs every two weeks. Another couple of months and we'll have three sets, a full evening. Then we'll be ready to play out, just in time for summer.
One thing that still bothers me a little bit is that she still refers to the band as "you guys". She still has her other band, the one she's been in for two years and the only band she's ever been in, so when she comes to rehearse with us, we're her "other band" and she thinks of us as "you guys". I try to gently correct her. Like, she'll say "Wow, you guys are really good!" and I'll say "No, WE are really good!" And she'll say "Right, right". Not dismissively; she's nodding her head and smiling, like she's embarrassed to have to be corrected (again).
Her other band had a gig last weekend, and she posted pictures on her Facebook page, and obviously that's the foremost band in her mind right now. We are just her side project. Our drummer JT took a picture at rehearsal the other night and posted it on Facebook, tagging everyone, and she removed her tag. I'm trying not to jump to conclusions, as there can be different reasons for that. She'd just posted a bunch of pictures of her other band's gig, and changed her cover picture to a nice band picture of them, so being tagged in a pic the next day of her rehearsing with a different band would be weird (especially since her other band members would see it, and I don't know if they know she's moonlighting). Also, it's not a particularly flattering picture for her.
So even though the band sounds pretty fucking great (we really do) and it all seems to be going well, there just seems like a little bit of uncertainty to it all. But as I said last time, it's nothing I can control or do anything about, so it'll just have to be. I know, it's only rock and roll. But I like it. ♫♫