The Woods, RIP

My band, The Woods, ended yesterday, a year to the day after we started. It consisted of James on guitar, Luke on drums, and me on bass. I'm not sure how to describe the music other than it usually rocked. Luke is moving to the other side of the country, so that's that.

The first image is a collage I made out of paper illustrations from various sources. I just tacked some text on it for this post, but maybe we'll use it for album art if we ever narrow our songs down to a listenable few and put them on a CD.

The second image is a collage of the "album art" I made for each of our recording sessions. Luke is a music producer, and he recorded all our sessions in his home studio. We typically got together once a week and jammy-jammed (but I swear we weren't a jam band). It was very unstructured, and we never really "practiced", although there are many songs that we ran through numerous times. I'd always hoped we'd get it together and really nail some songs down, but in the end that's not really what we were about.

We ended our run with around 400 songs recorded, all live in the studio. All guitar, bass, and drums. We never played out anywhere. It was definitely one of the best things I've done with myself in the past year. I went in having never played the bass before, and came out knowing what a bass is and how to hold it. Although I wish we had written more complete songs, I'm really happy that we created the ridiculously bloated and noisy body of work that we did.

In the wake of our rock 'n roll death (bandicide?), James and I are looking for a drummer to start a new band. I'd also like to try adding a second guitarist to see what that would sound like. If you/your friend/your gramps play(s) drums, or guitar, or any other instrument (but not bass!), give me a holler.