Forgotten Freedom
...began lookin for other people to fill the band. His very good freind dave had long wanted to front a band and we all beleived he was just the man for the job, very outgoing charismatic, and of course he was always the ladies man. Now we just needed a bass player to complete our quartet. One of our good freinds by the name of mike played the guitar which is very simalar to bass and we all thought he was a person that we wanted in the band, so we asked him to make the change for us. He agreed and now the task of aquiring the personel was complete, now we just needed material, and much much practice. We began writing songs arranging them just the way we wanted, as well as learn a few songs to cover from our favorite artists. We new we didnt have much time becuase fall would soon come and take us each away to our different schools and then we would be no more or at least have to wait untill the next summer. On top of that we had set our first perfomance one month from the date of our first practice and if you have ever been in a band you know it isnt something you can just pick up and do, it requires much dedication. So practice we did, we kept a rigoris practice scheudule, basically any time that all four or even three out of four didnt have work obligations we were in mikes basement practicing. Mikes basement is were we practiced every day, cramped by the bulky furniture which was stored there and all of our equipment. The basment floor was a sea of black which consisted of speaker cables going to all of our amplifiers and the PA system. The greatest thing about spending hours a day th...