Brain buzzing

It's been 3 weeks nearly closing to a month since I joined Candy. To tell you the truth, I'm still overwhelmed that I'm actually singing with them. And yes, I won't deny the fact that I'm indubitably new to the whole scene.

I will never forget the time when I attended the first practice with them. I still find it funny that I was hushed and that I was all shaky the whole time. I guess I was still adjusting and feeling out every member. Nonetheless, I guess it was obvious that I was very conscious of how I should sing their songs that I made sure I took down notes for every song we practiced that night. The next day was my first time to sing with them in front of a crowd - hell, it was nerve-racking. I tried holding the lyric sheet by hair's breadth. I had it recorded on video and I could barely watch myself. I was out of tune and I couldn't even hear myself singing at all. In spite all that, it was relatively a very good experience for me.

Weeks passed and we had lots of late night practices and a couple of gigs scheduled in different places. Within that period, I was already able to adjust with all of them - Allan, Dennis, Rene, Gotheng (even if I've just been with her twice), and Jeff (obviously). I quickly got the hang of their behavior of scrutinizing things - even me. I guess they were surprised I was having fun messing around rather than being all sensitive about it. I even find it funny when they said I looked like Scrat or that I should play the guitar-like keyboard the way Jimi Hendrix did. I'd laugh it off and get back at them after. Priceless.

I don't dismiss the verity that for every time we had a gig or a practice I get so tired that when I get home I flump right into bed. It'd take me 2-3 hours of sleep before I get up to work. I barely get enough sleep.

But, it's all worth it.

I'd wake up in the morning - all re-energized and uberly happy, regardless if I wasn't able to rest much. It was the music and at the same time I'm enjoying the company of new friends. This is long enough and I'd keep this short, I might get too melodramatic. It's that - I am happy. I know I still have much to learn and experience with the band and yeah, I'm excited just thinking about it. So yeah, to Allan, Rene, Jeff, Dennis and Gotheng - thanks for bringing my sanity back. I'm looking forward to more music-playing with all of you :)

Playing Old Songs

Hello everyone...

it's been a while since my last Candy-Post...

i guess it's safe to say that we're back and everything seems to be alright again... Our two new members, Jeff and Celene has really helped a lot in making things interesting again... Practice has never been this fun and fruitful... although we've yet to experience playing a flawless gig but i guess we're getting there...

last night's practice was great... we focused on playing songs that we seldom play... "for all i care", "out of fuel", "broken to pieces", "all smiles", "can't sleep", "nearby town", "pretend that we're smart", "light a candle" and "painful" were just a few of the songs we practiced last night and Jeff's playing brought back the decency in all of these songs specially in "broken...", "painful", "out of fuel" and "can't sleep"... we sounded more like an indierock band which focuses more on it's indie-ness... even songs like "we've been there" and "my silver chair - dance version" gained some "twee-ness"... unlike before with our past drummer wherein these song rocked a lot...

Celene on the otherhand fit's this bands requirements .. She sings in ways i like my songs to be sung although she's still having problems with some songs specially the higher pitched ones... i think a few more practices and she'll be able to do it properly...

i'm very thankful to Rene for filling in for Maggot every now and then... hopefully when everything's really back to normal, we'll see more of Maggot... it's still catching up time for both new members and Maggot has more important things to do... when that time comes, it'll surely be a blast...

lot's of things to look foward to and lots of old songs to fool around with...