Barring some huge disaster, sparkette and I are in all the way. I do, however, need people to play instruments, being a one man band. Sparkette plays no instruments whatsoever, and will probably just do some singing (she's going to play Mr. T in Do it For Captain, by the way).
Most of my songs don't have bass, so it's pretty much optional, but it would be nifty if someone picked off some notes with the chords or something, I'd imagine. I might be able to train sparkette for that job. Other than that, I definitely need drums, which can be just as simple and repetetive as my programmed ones, so they should be easily enough improvised/learned.
I/we'll be doing most of my songs, hopefully, except probably Video Night, Tiny Room, Been to China (which isn't legit, after all), and a few others I'm embarrassed of. The others are going to be getting some revamps as I try to make them playable/listenable, so if I'm feeling adventurous I'll be spamming somesongs with self-covers of tunes from high school soon as I figure them out (joy).
Lodging arrangements are totally up in the air. We can pay two fractions of the rent and take up only one bed, so hopefully we'll be easy to accomodate. Has anyone given much consideration to this stuff yet, or is it early still?
Also:
My mediocre skills are available to all on the following instruments (in order of mediocrity):
Guitar
Bass guitar
Ukulele/similarly-tuned instrument
Keyboard
But warn me early!
And, while I hope I'm not spamming you folks...
Songs I may be performing and instruments I'll need (and then instruments that aren't needed but would be cool in parentheses):
* Do It For Captain - drums, (bass), (extra guitarist)
* Birds of Our Own - drums, (bass), (extra guitarist)
* Alright Alright - drums (bass) (extra guitarist)
* It's a Shame My Binoculars Don't Work at Night - drums (bass) (extra guitarist)
* Secrets (?) - none
* Acid Mouth - drums (bass) (no extra guitarist, I'm cutting out those fucking solos)
* My Sister - drums (bass) (keyboard)
* Indie Rock Bottom - drums (bass) (extra acoustic)
* Rot to Fill (?) - (slide electric or acoustic-easy)
* World of Screens - drums add'l electric (bass)
* Glass Eye - none
I'm sure someone won't be able to fill all or even most of those, so consider it a silly little wish list for now, but I'll talk to who I know about the stuff that's totally necessary. My AIM SN is "fearwig" if you're interested, email is
gareth1@umbc.edu . Like I said, I'd be happy to offer my less-than-capable playing to whoever needs it, as well.
Also: what's the format been like the past few times? Same as SFLPT? Or different, now that there are so many fights to deal with?
