Slugbaby
Sounds great!
I just can't see the connection between this and playing Danny Boy at the C&D. Although we did play an "Irish Lunch" at Grafitti's right after "Black Metal Brunch" once...
Thanks, Sluggo. That's actually an interesting story (well... maybe not lol). I was previously in a signed metal band (indie label) as a teen with a bunch of older dudes which brought me to the city. I was always into all sorts of stuff but mostly thrash. Once there it was tough times due to the recession and Harris years. I worked where and when I could then busked the rest of time. That's when I started meeting/hanging with the punks and started playing in hardcore bands (metal was pretty much dead at that point). I lived around the corner from the C&D and it was a nice place to get a beer away from the wackier punk bars when I wasn't feeling up to it and wanted to be alone. Ended up making friends with the original owner and the regulars but never did any music stuff there.
Then the night of the 2003 blackout I was sitting in my dark apartment getting bored off my nut so dragged my acoustic over the the pub. Sure enough a bunch of the other musical regulars had the same idea and we all took turns playing tunes by candlelight and getting hamfaced. I got quite the reaction with my weird mix of originals and covers.
Johnny (the owner at the time) got the idea to start up the BFCH and asked me to play guit. Eventually the original band leaders cacked out and I kind of ended up being the unofficial musical director (I had a band space, learned all the tunes backward and forwards including vox and kept on everyone's arse). Johnny was a first time musician so if he looked to me if he forgot a line or I'd take over the vox until he got back on. Eventually he had some health stuff so I ended up being the frontman, we dropped about half a dozen members and the rest is history.
Of course that entire time I was still doing all the hardcore bands, metal had a revival so I got back into that, I had a bunch of cover bands and my own solo stuff. I was always active in at least three bands at a time but up to six at some points (on top of work and girlfriends and all sorts of other general chaos). Pretty hectic.
But the Irish stuff taught me a buttload about proper theory right when I needed it and it was great drunken fun.
Since I know the heavy stuff the best though and I can do it completely silently/DI now that I'm in stuck in apartments (no band room anymore) I've been learning music production with that. It's easier for me to write too and because it's so sonically rich it's more challenging to mix which has forced me to get my head wrapped around it all.
That's mah story and I'm stickin' to it.
Cheers, dood.
;-)