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History from the point of view of Bish (Bass)
piece of shit, and cake to go along with it
I'd like to mention here first that I had ADHD and will randomly mention things out of place, and probably repeat things, etc. etc. etc.
Right now the best things about my life are music, friends, and of course Genevieve :D
The beginnings of my own musical shit
When i get bored, i write a lot. and i was bored when i wrote this. so its long. ok, well i'll begin my history from...i think 8th grade. Some of my friends and i wanted to start a band, so i bought a guitar (Fender Stratocastor) and played rhythm. I sucked ass, so did everyone else pretty much so we usually just ended up going to the pool. I really didn't start listening to music till 7th or 8th grade. Music would give me terrible headaches so I would even cry to have it turned off (when i was really little). It actually still does give me terrible headaches, but i deal with it. Anyways, i ended up getting in a fight with the guys during the summer before 9th grade and pretty much went into high school with no real friends.
New Overdose - Old Underdose
Not far into 9th i met jake, we became friends because we both liked Halo. He was in a band with some other guys and i offered to fix up their myspace and make it look cool, and i offered to help record them. We had practices and it ended up that they didn't like the bass player that much, so i went out and bought a used squier jazz bass. i still have it, i would never sell it. i started out playing what they told me, boring ass single notes. We recorded some shit "Tea" "Nature's Way" "Out on the Run" "Seen", etc. we had a ton more but thats all we recorded i think. Well, once we put those up on myspace we got a ton of shit at school for it. i have to admit now that they were pretty bad, but we didn't need to be ridiculed constantly about it. We lost a lot of friends from it. We played a show the summer after 9th at a local pool. Went pretty good, it had just rained hard that day so like no one showed up. They said they might call us back to play another the next summer...we haven't heard from em since. Problems arose about our name, New Overdose, and for a while we were nameless.
10th grade and the summer thereafter, just three of us
In 10th grade we decided that things just weren't working as well as they used to with our rhythm guitarist, so we seperated from him. Our drummer just didn't want to play music anymore, which i totally respect. He had other admirations, so we were drummerless. Which was when we got Lincoln. That summer we played a small show for our singer's sister and realized Lincoln wasn't up to what we needed. This is also the show where our singer and jake said is the first time they've noticed that i had gotten better. So for our next show we got our old drummer back. By this time we have a ton of songs. All awesome songs. We even played at the Latino Festival, our best performance. Then for our singer's girlfriend's birthday party. Our last with the drummer from New Overdose. (I'm trying to not mention names of past members, cause I dunno maybe they don't want to have their names put up)
11th grade to the present
We were back to having no drummer, we started jamming with drummers. None lived up to the connection that we had with the one from New Overdose. I personally didn't feel the same connection that I had before with the singer and when an argument came up, jake had lost that connection too. So we seperated from our friend since New Overdose. I had some good times with him and wish him luck with his own solo career. Jake and I decided to jam with Lincoln again and felt a really good connection in jamming. He had gotten better.
Finally...thanks to all of you that cared enough to read all this. Currently we are still jamming and rewriting lyrics for our old songs while making up new ones. I'm actually proud of my bass parts now, it used to be that jake could play my parts but thats changed. I've developed my own style of slapping, in which i've actually had people tell me they've never seen anything like it before. Which is pretty cool since the only reason i have that certain style is cause i found it too hard to slap like everyone else so i was like...well why the hell don't they do it like this. and yep... though i'm sure that made myself sound full of myself. which is something i try to not do. i don't like to show off stuff. most people don't know i even play bass i think. I guess its about time to end this...so I'd like to thank Jefferson for helping us record and all the people i've played music with for helping me gain more experience. Nothing better than having a reason to practice, and someone to take the stuff you've made up to.
oh yeah..about our name. I was in the shower and was thinking about some of the stupid ass shit that we had done that day. "Wow, we're really freaks at heart..." like when someone says they're really a fighter at heart, or a lover at heart. Well, we're The Freaks at Heart
**This little history is now several years old**
~Bish
History from the point of view of Lincoln (Drums)
The Now:
Music has come to consume my mind, body, and sprit these days. Listening to, watching, playing and learning more about the music I appreciate and love gives me such a rush. I find myself at many practices just sitting on the drum throne absorbing the unbelievable energy that accumulates between my band mates. They, while still growing and learning as anyone does, are incredible musicians. I’m glad to know them, and I feel a great connection playing with them. I hope what we’ve got here can hold together and become something great, or at the very least fun to listen to.
The Background:
I’ve had varying interest in music over the years, beginning with starting piano in kindergarten and taking lessons for over 6 years into 6th grade. I found that I wasn’t learning the type of music I really enjoyed, and I simply lost interest and quit. About this time, I started to focus my taste in music to heavier classic rock along the lines of AC/DC, Van Halen, Aerosmith…(Never ending list), coming from an obsession with Van Halen’s “1984†and ZZ Top’s “Eliminator†albums as early as four years old.
I became friends with Jake and a few other people who were picking up instruments and gaining interest in my kind of music in the 8th grade. Even so, I wasn’t inspired to play another instrument, until Jake and Danny had an opening in a spur of New Overdose called Ocean Eclipse they were piddling around with. They needed a drummer.
My Involvement with the Band:
Desperate to get caught up in their talent and energy and similarity of music interest, I took up drumming on my dad’s 30 year old Ludwig drums. After practicing everyday heavily for probably a month I was able to barely knock out a few simple beats to get through the songs they had written. Long story short everybody, myself included, realized that I basically sucked and was far behind everybody else’s talent level, so I ended up kicked out with out a fight. It had been fun but I was holding them back and I felt it.
I continued practicing and working hard at drumming (for a year at this writing) and after lots of various jams with different people, as well as expanding my music taste to more funk, blues, and metal than before, I ended up playing for The Freaks at Heart, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thanks:
Lastly, as Danny and Jake have already covered, thanks if you took the time to wade all the way through all this, whether you were just bored out of your mind or not. I think we all felt we should show our roots, so that once we get more of our music up people can better understand where we come from and why we have the connections we do. Thanks again!
Influences:
Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham
Van Halen’s Alex Van Halen
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith
Primus' Tim Alexander
The Who’s Keith Moon
Rush’s Neil Peart
ELP’s Carl Palmer
AC/DC’s Phil Rudd
Max Roach
The rest of the members of the bands above
And most importantly, Deeso and Bish
~Lanky Lincoln Humphry
