Splunge

We now have a name for the music project (Splunge), and had a session with four participants (Jason, Sal, new guitarist Jared, and myself) this past weekend. We actually have three guitar players now, and the plan is to play roughly every two weeks with whoever can make it, but we only expect two of the three guitarists to attend any given session due to scheduling issues all around. It's unconventional, and probably a little awkward when all three guitarists eventually show up for a session, but we never intended this to be a regular band. One of the guitarists is planning on working on singing lead, which would solve the problem in one shot if he turns out to be good at it. Even if he's simply passable, it'll be good to have someone else sharing the lead vocal load. I still plan to learn how to play all of the songs on guitar as well as bass, but that's looking wonderfully redundant at the moment.

Since we've had three regulars instead of two for the last several sessions, we're finally starting to develop consistent arrangements of the songs. Some of them are proving to be trickier than others. We're having a lot of trouble with Warren Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" because we're combining aspects of his original version with the better known Linda Ronstadt version, so there's no recording of what we're trying to do. Still, if we can keep even one guitar player steadily coming back, we'll work it all out.