Change...and not a moment too soon

When all the anger has gone is there anything left to say? Anger is a great motivator, bile the catalyst to creation. Well, it is for me anyway. But when the red mist has faded, it all seems a little pointless, a little self-obsessed. Hmmm, a blog is self-obsessed, so that's not changing, I guess.

But it's time to be me. Can you see the real me, well can you, can you? From now on the subject has changed. This will be a diary of a band. A new band. So new, we've not played a single note yet and we've not even got a line-up. So new, some of the members don't know it exists yet and some of them don't know they're in it.

Day 1 (for future historians) is Tuesday 12th January 2010. Remember what you're doing today because in the future you'll be able to say to your grandchildren I was gazing out the window, squeezing a blackhead, twiddling my thumbs when "???" (we've not got a name yet, although my daughter proffered LuftKussenFahrZeug since it's my favourite word in German) formed.

So who is in the band? Well, me, obviously. I'm going to play bass. I don't have a bass right now mind and I've never played bass before, but I'm not going to let that stop me. It can't be that hard judging by some of the numbskulls you see slapping the damn thing. You notice the singer, the guitarist, the drummer even before you notice the bass player. So it's always given to the one with the least to show off, mainly because he/she is the most inept. Not always true, I grant you. There are exceptions to the rule; John Entwhistle, Flea, Geddy Lee, Paul McCartney, Gail Ann Dorsey, but you know I'm right otherwise.

Other members? Well I'm awaiting a reply from one and he's almost famous. One other is up for it, since he put the idea in my head. I'll post more when there's more to say. I don't want to compromise their artistic integrity by aligning them with The Band With No Name when they don't know it themselves yet. They're both guitarists (my actual bent too, but they're better than me, hence my new found desire to play bass). So we'll need a drummer, but shouldn't be a problem. I hear Zak Starkey has a window in his diary now Oasis have gone (not a moment too soon and several years too late).