Okay, guys, by now you should know i'm a christian, right? i'm a dedicated Christian, and folow my beliefs strongly. i also play guitar, and i have tried getting in bands before. right now, i'm taking it cool, trying to work on just getting better at playing than being in a band that can't play. what's the point in being in a band if you can't play you instrument correctly?

there is no point in it, so i dropped out. and i have dropped out and jumped back in over and over again. i was in a band recently, about three or four months ago, and we played great. but, not to sound compeltely selfish or rude, i was heart of the band. without me, it was absolutely nothing. i wanted to play in a Christian band, in fact, it was already established that we would be a Christian band. (we can play heavy music and it still be christian you know) So i would enforce it, you know, be the guy. i wasn't trying to be hard to get along with, but i was a true Christian, and Still am and hope to always be, but these guys weren't. they lied to my face for nearly two years.

they eventually KICKED ME OUT because i wanted to be a Christian in a Christian Band. what kind of crap is that?! anyways, i said forget it, they weren't helping my walk with Christ anyways. so i left the band. but eventually it hit me a while back, that I was the one who started this band, i was the one who put my every single day and breathe into it, I was the one who worked my butt off to make it better and I was the one who tried to help my friends.

So the 'let me back in' after i fussed and complained and made 'ammends' for my 'wrong doings' (isn't that great, i did something WRONG?! that's outragous! i did absolutely nothing wrong. thewse guys did. they kicked me out of my OWN band!). i listened to them practice one time, after they had 're-organize'...and never went back.

the music was horrible, the feel of it just didn't match the 'music' they were playing, and it didn't match my moral standards either. so i dropped out. but the thing that's really got me, is they got six guys in their band now, totally recent stuff, right?

they're sposed to be a 'good band'. well, check this, they got a Lead Guitarist, a Rythm Guitarist, a Drummer, a Bassist, and a Vocalist. the lead guitarist is a bass gutarist, not a regular guitarist, and he knows absolutely nothing about guitar (i know because i play one and have been for four long and hard years of practice, i'm not bad at all and i know how to play it right). so he's they're lead guitarist, after i left, that's all they had left. The Rythm guitarist can't play worth a spit on a carpet, i can play twenty times better, and i'm the one who stopped playing to get BETTER. The drummer, though he's got good skill, he's just not easy to get along with. plus the fact that he tried to keep up with the guitarist and not hold the beat of the song. the bassist...the guy has been playing for maybe half a year. he knows nothing about playing music or the bass for that matter. how about the vocallist...now he's a killer drummer, awesome drummer, but they got him on vocals b/c they think he can sing..he can barely hold a tune.

guys, not to bring these guys down, but dude, they need to stop playing for a while, learn HOW to play, then start back up later when they mature some.

cd