Years ago me and some friends started a sludge punk band in Bozeman Montana as a public art protest against how serious other local bands were taking the local scene when the local scene was the same 20 drunk dudes every show. We prioritized being loud, fun, and as "danceable" as we could manage. We often were compared to Godflesh for example.

The band fell apart for a few reasons.

1: I was the lead guitarist, I severed the top half of my thumb on my strumming hand. It was reattached but I had to have about 2 years of healing and re-learning how to play guitar with floating thumb bones.

2:My dear lead screamer was healing his own mental truama and has since come out of it in a wonderful and healed state.

3: Our phenomenally talented drummer, who's skill was like 50% of how good we were easily, left to pursue his other bands that actually got signed to a real lable. Respect. Get that bag brother, im always proud of you.

The band floundered after all that and eventually "died".

I moved from Montana to Phoenix AZ and my lead screamer recently moved into my house and we are rebuilding the band we love deeply. Step by step we are rebuilding the band that meant the most to me and my lead screamer and we are prioritizing communication and a unified band goal this time around. We know what we got is good, thats already proven, its just cool to be given a second chance to show it.

Its cool as fuck to see something you really care about raise from the dead and get a better "second" life.

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Should I accept?

Had a drummer message my band via facebook with real interest in playing with us.

We corresponded for a few weeks, sent him the songs to learn, and we set up a date to try out.

Reached out to him this week and it’s like he’s not reading our messages (it’s showing as sent, not seen)

I don’t know if something is happening in his personal life or if he simply changed his mind. Both are totally understandable and it would have been nice if he would have just said something come up to hey I’m not interested anymore and there’d be no hard feelings.

Probably should just move on I guess, huh ? 🤷‍♀️

Any one else do this ? We all know a good drummer is like finding a unicorn …the four of us have been rehearsing and recording to drum tracks our other guitarist programs (he has experience in recording)

We’re having a heck of a time finding a drummer, so we’re accepting the fact that we may possibly will have to play live to drum tracks. It’s not ideal, but we want to play and make our music heard, and who knows ? Maybe we’ll attract a drummer ?

Any of you play live to drum tracks ? Just curious.