I'm Rik Gerblick, and I sometimes post under the name Rik Gerblick. By day I'm a network administrator, by night a hack musician. Right out of high school I had a mean-on for starting a band and being rich and famous. I recorded an album of the most pathetic drivel ever written and thought I was pretty hot shit. In the years since, I have written and recorded a few songs. Nothing notable, and never enough to compile another 'album'. Ten or so years ago I gave up writing music all together. I've been in a couple pretty decent cover bands in the past few years, but one can only take so much of the bar band thing. A little over a year ago, I had pretty much all but put behind me any and all things musical.
I found SongFight several years ago, but never had the ambition to submit anything until recently. The early song titles were too weird for me to embrace, I liked the SongFight! concept but couldn't take the site seriously. The first fight I saw was 'Too Bad my Binoculars Don't Work at Night', and thought to myself "what the hell kind of song could I possibly write about binoculars? This is dumb.". Well, that was the mindset I was in at the time. Looking back, there are so many angles to that song title and all of the others here, I don't know what my problem was. I followed the site for a few weeks, then lost interest. I still remember the band name generator on the bottom left of the page. Though I always wanted to use one of those names in a bad, it was hard convincing the other members to go with 'Crampon' or 'Stink Hole Trio'.
A few months ago I got a bug up my ass and decided I wanted to re-learn how to play guitar. I've been playing since 5th grade (let's see, that's 22 years), but I was self-taught and was never very good. Most bands I've been in I've either played bass or sang or both. So I started working on scales, modes, odd chords, shit like that. One thing led to another and I'm putting in a song for 'High Enough'. I'm still not very good at soloing, which is quite apparent, but I'm getting better. Now in addition to guitar, I'm trying to learn drums (no drum machine on my entries, that's me playing on an electronic kit), and submitting songs as often as possible. Some nights I fit sleep into my schedule, but never on the night before a SongFight! deadline.
Most of my songs have an 80's sound to them, or so I've been told. I'm alright with that, I grew up in the 80's and hair metal is some of my favorite music. Not that glam shit though, when those fuckers start wearing makeup I have to draw the line. Whoa, where did that come from?
I want to take this opportunitity to thank everyone in the SongFight community for all the work they put into this each week. Extra special thanks to Spud, JB and Glenn for keeping this all together and WITHOUT ADS OR POPUPS, I don't know how you guys do it but you're amazing. This is one hell of a cool thing going on here: artists getting together to share work, casual guests visiting for some fresh music every week. Everything free, everything honest. Damn, I promised myself I wouldn't cry.
Oh yeah, I found a copy of that crap album I did years ago. If anyone wants a good laugh, PM me. You will then hear just how bad music can be. And you all thought my current songs were lame. Hahaha!