The first get-together for my punk band project is tomorrow evening, and I am pretty much over-the-moon excited about it. I like the people who responded to my call for musicians. They are friends who are interesting people with cool perspectives. Men and women. White and not. So I put out the call for people to play punk, and the people who responded were all NOT cis-white-middle-aged-men! Talk about a promising beginning! Also got a friend who is gonna be John Perry-Barlow to my Jerry Garcia... he has ideas for lyrics, song concepts, etc, that harmonize with mine, and we have been riffing off each other's ideas for about two weeks now. Got a long thread of partial song lyrics, topics we want to write about (meaningful shit, too), and the new Telecaster just has all kinds of amazing punk riffs pouring out of it! Good times. I hope.
First gotta get some humans in the room together, strap on some noisemakers, and see what kinds of noise we make. If my past 30+ years of playing in bands is any indication to go on, I expect we will have stuff to share pretty quickly, if we click at all as a band. Tonight it's gonna be just me and one other person, but she plays guitar, bass, and drums - in that order - and I play guitar and bass. She and I have produced rave-like events together in the past, so I expect we will vibe pretty well together, and something will come out of this evening. Looking forward to next week, when two others are interested in participating, as well. If we can get a 3-piece together, I think we can start writing original material pretty quickly.