Dave has taken over the blog today. I dont' know if you all know this, but I can't be in just one band. It always seems to be none or 3. Since it's been so long since I have been in a band, I decided that, obviously it was time for me to be in (more than) one again. First I joined up with two fellow Mokpo'ers, Chad and Emanuel, and formed Billie Jean and the Kidney Beans. That was a success, and all members reported much fun. And, not surprisingly, from that experience came a second band.
Unfortunately, Billie Jean didn't fare so well in the judging, and the third place act was a guy named Jordan Emmans. A songwriter and guitarist (and apparently drummer?), Jordan was playing with a drummer named Dan, but no other accompaniment. And since his songs were really cool, I offered my services. He called me a couple weeks later, and we decided to start playing. The only catch is he and Dan both live in Gwangju, about 1.5 hours from Mokpo.
So we practiced on a Friday, I learned the songs as we played them, and it went really good. Then around 5 or so, Dan told Jordan that there was an acoustic thing going on at Speakeasy, which is a bar owned by a couple Canadian guys. Jordan asked if we were up to playing with him. We decided it would be cool. So I phoned Dawn to come to Gwangju so she could see me play and be all proud and such. Plus the last bus back to Mokpo was at 11 or something, so we would've had to spend the night apart otherwise. So we get to the bar at 10:30 or so, and we find out there's a couple other acts. One of the owners played a set with Dan on drums, and another songwriter named Matt played some of his tunes and some covers. So finally at about 1am we got on stage. We played 6 songs that I had played a couple times at practice, but we also played 3 songs that I had never heard before. Tough, but doable. Jordan is a good leader, so there's really no problems there. Anyway, check out the pics. Gotta go!
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