It seems like at many of our recent WED evening practices during the summer we end up with only three of us. It always gets more difficult to practice in the summer as we all have “stuff” going on. This past WED Pete, Lonzo and Kinger rocked the house as Andy was on his way for a week of relaxation in Lutsen. There have been times recently when Lonzo missed practice so the band went “sans bass”. (or brought in a substitute hacker bass playa from the”hood”) Who needs bass anyway …right!!
It can be harder to work on material and even run through some of our oldies. “hey let’s do xxxxxxx song” “nope Andy sings that one” “how about xxxxxxxxx song?” we get half way through and then have to improvise when we come to the part where Andy would solo. A Three Piece is actually kind of fun and more challenging. Some of our favorite bands have been three piece. Grand Funk, Rush (recently Wolfmother comes to mind) It’s still fun though since we still get to drink beer. Most of the time we make stuff up, or start with a riff and then see where it goes. If it’s the three of us with no Andy we sometimes revert back to the REALLY OLD STUFF we started doing pre Andy being in the band.
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