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Would Grant wear a skirt? How does Joel feel about donning a ski mask during "Disaster"? What is it about Dan's features that make him look so good in brown stripes? What color are Matt's eyes?
Just some of the questions facing the band now that they're a real band dedicated to fashion.
The new website is almost up and OVERHANG has a few super gigs lined up in Chicago and Lansing, MI. Taking another stab at The Hollywood tonight. Maybe for the last time.
A good start last night. Our set was briefish (8 songs) but mostly tight and we got alot of good and helpful comments. It felt great to show our friends what we've been up to for the last long while. Next steps: more gigs, building an email list and developing a bigger fan base so we can play better venues, photos for upcoming new website, finish a few vocals for album and look into mastering possibilities here in Chicago, settle on a release date for the album.
We know everyday is the 14th, but we will remember this one, in particular, as the day after Overhang came out of hiding.
We're a'gonna try and show ourselves a bit this Friday at a place called "The Hollywood" here in Chicago. It has been a long long time since we've rocked and rolled for other people, so this will be interesting. We'll do a couple songs just to see if we can remember all the parts, stay in tune the whole way through, stick together, balance our sound and communicate what we want to communicate. This is not even the beginning yet, but at least it's a start.
And just like that...we have a drummer. And when we say "just like that", we mean after several years of frustration and doubt, learning how to make beats on the computer because we had no drummer, trying out several drummers that didn't work for some reason or another, thinking maybe we would never find the right one or that we should just settle for someone...anyone no matter how much the music or we might suffer (Wanted: Experienced Drummer. Clean, sober, no drugs. We'll take what we can get.).
But, not wanting to give the music (our pure flower with all its virginal petals still intact) away like pimps at a pussy parade, we had decided this year to trust that the right person would be provided as long as we perservered and did not compromise our musical and spiritual vision. Which is why it is such a sweet feeling now to have found the right drummer, to reap the rewards of our waiting, to witness the power of the spirit that gives what is needed to those who are faithful.