I've been thinking of interesting Rock/Pop band ideas that would be fun to be a part of. Here are two so far:
The Wedding Band
(Or, to riff, on that idea- "Stephen Joel and the Wedding Band", or "The Hand, featuring the Wedding Band")
It would be a band with two faces. It would be a true, legitimate, and highly skilled wedding band, confident in the requisite cover songs that make a wedding romantic and fun. I'm thinking an upright bass, drums, guitar, and male and female lead vocals. The other band members should be capable singers as well. Maybe even an on-call lineup available as the situation demands (
http://www.theweddingband.com.au/). We would all wear wedding appropriate attire- men in tuxes, women in nice dresses. So that part would be pretty straight forward.
But then, the Wedding Band would also be a straight up rock and roll band that plays at other venues, bars, etc. The schtick would be "we're this wedding band, but we're sick of playing weddings and cover songs. Let's rock." We would still be dressed in our tuxes, but the bow ties would be untied and the jackets loose. The female vocalist would be wearing a bridesmaid dress, I think, or even an actual wedding dress. There are a number of possibilities here as far as stage relationships go, such as -the lead male and lead female are recently married, the lead male and lead female are just a groomsman and a bridesmaid and the rest of the band would be The Wedding Band. So the band could be called "The Lovebirds and the Wedding Band" or "The Bridesmaid's Wedding Band". I see at the end of the show the lead male and lead female posing for pictures a la wedding style with a plant in the audience taking picture (not plant as in botanitcal- how could a leaf take a picture? That's crazy!). Maybe feeding each other cake after thoroughly rocking out. A toast to the bride and groom should be involved. It could be awesome. It's certainly an interesting and I think original concept that could draw and entertain a crowd if pulled off right.
The Porter Rockwells (get it? "Rock. Well")
Rock and roll in pioneer garb and with Mormon history (particularly Rockwell) themes (Rockwellian), but not correlated.
Featuring such hits as:
"The Danite Fight!"
"Never Killed a Man that Didn't Need Killin"
"The Porter Rockwell Suite"
"The Martin Willie Willies"
I've already sketched lyrics for a song about Levi Savage, who was the guy who tried to persuade the Martin Willie Company to hold off on heading West until winter had passed and, seeing they were going to go anyway, went with them. I'm calling it, "A Savage Warning".
V1
It's late in the season to be leaving
Too late in the summer to move on
The August wind, has blown by once again
And fall is coming strong
It's late in the season, to be leaving
Your young and your old ones will not last
December winds will claim them in the end
Stay, let this winter pass
Chorus:
I see I'm not gonna stop you
I guess you'll do as you please
Sayin our God's gonna save you
Before he'll let you freeze
But some things are for sure
Like the Ice and graves in store
But if you're hell-bent on going
I'll tie my fate to yours
And so on
I'd ask for comments, but no one knows this blog exists...
One great purpose for blogs is to provide one more excuse out of thousands to not write that paper that's due tomorrow. The way we can know Danny is home is either by his squeaky chair or his whining from upstairs. "What?!" "Come on!" We never know what it is he's fussing about, but not because he doesn't want to tell us. Danny's home right now. Now, as for distractions from writing twelve page papers, the internet ranks as number one, at least today. Instead of describing the similarities and differences between what William James calls healthy mindedness and sickly soul, I read about Alexander Karelin, the legendary Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. I found out on Ansir.com that my thinking, working, and emotive styles are kinsman, visionary, and kinsman respectively. Did you know that Jim Eubank is almost ninety years old and holds world records for a number of swimming events in his age category? Sports Illustrated says his chest muscles are so developed and the skin over them so taught that you can almost read the serial number on his pacemaker. I think that's an ideal I would like to strive for. Now, the healthy minded individual would say, "Of course, if you think positively, and ignore the evil in this world, you will then be happy and content." The sick soul will invariably reply, "You naive goon, if you don't have huge pectoral muscles and tight skin when you're eighty-seven, it's just one more indication of your unsurpassibly limited and imperfect character, not to mention another proof of evil in this world. No, unless you become saved, the only logical solution for you is to yes, go swimming, but go swimming with a millstone round your neck." Now that sounds quite harsh, but, Dear Reader, please know that I do not necessarily endorse either of the viewpoints quoted above.
I might just use something like that in my paper. That would require writing the thing. You know, I bet Danny would want to show me his company website right about now. They've just launched it, you know, and he played and integral part in making it, you know, and brethren, look at how smooth the 3d models are. Yes, Danny is earning his keep.
