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Day Two Hundred Forty One (Year Seven)

So, today was an interesting one.

I was sifting through some of the music on my computer before I headed into work today, with an ear towards putting together a playlist for one of the kids at church when I came across a series of tracks with a rather long history.

So, anyone who has been following for a long time now knows that I have been a part of two bands that have never been able to find a way to put all of the pieces together in quite the right order. One of those bands was back when I was living in Green Bay after college, and the other was when I was still in college and few years before that.

In what ended up being a weird twist of fate, the guy that had played bass in the first band ended up producing some of the sessions for the second one that never really went anywhere. Anyway, before he got roped into that project, we had reconnected with an eye on finishing up some of the old songs from the initial group, just for fun. Needless to say, that idea got shelved when the focus shifted to the second band.

So, the tracks I found today are the "new" demos we did for the initial band all those years ago. Of course I listened. And I think that one of the songs might be the missing link in the EP project. Maybe I'm delusional, but I intend to try and make sure. I am going to try and finish up the song and slot it in to see if it's really the glue I think it might be.

Fun day today for sure!
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