Well today i had the idea of writing a section on each from each point of view, or as many as i can get around to. First, a short summary of how i been thinking.

this section explains how i ended up where i am in a musical perspective I have always been a musician. Ever since i could remember, i would play on the piano that my grandma used to have, until she got rid of it, but i was far along enough by then, and i had a keyboard of my own. I would figure out songs, anything i found interested. I didnt really ever listen to any popular music, like anything that would be on the radio. If i did listen to the radio, it would be kiss 98.5, the everything station. And i would only listen to it because i would most likely be hanging out with nino and josh and they would listen to it. So i wasnt really listening to it, it was just like background music for my social life. Then, after a little while i realized my place in music. Not really the creating end of music, but the listening end. I found some music that i thought sounded cool, and all of these artists that i began listening to were coincidentally in the rock spectrum. Now theres not much piano in rock, and of course i was compelled to play what i liked. I listened to bands like Greenday and the Smashing Pumpkins.
So how did i come about playing guitar? Well a number of things gave me the idea. I didnt simply "copy off sam" as he probably thinks to this very day. But i had the idea previously. And when i heard him say for the first time that he is planning on getting a guitar, i really didnt want to say, "yeah, me too!!" So i kept my mouth shut about it.
So what did give me the original idea? For one thing, it was Adam, and his acoustic guitar that caught my interest. 2nd of all, the Doritos guitar picks somehow brought about the conversation between me and johnny about playing guitar. It seemed like a cool idea. And besides, if i became good enough, i would be able to play along with all the bands that i liked. Little did i know that most of those bands had guitar parts that give little challenge to a slightly experienced guitarist. I played guitar constantly, it was the summer of 1998. I learned as much smashing pumpkins as i could. I was never satisfied with just knowing the chords, i had to play it exactly right. And so i did, and i learned many things by doing so, with the help of my guitar teacher. Well, after playing around with all i had learned, i began to write my own stuff. Usually little riffs here and there. I formed a band with some friends about 8 months into playing guitar. It was all covers, and it lasted into the following summer. AT that point i had been playing for a year, and begun to like playing in a band so much i took it very seriously. The music was closer to me than my freinds were sometimes. The band underwent a few adjustments, member-wise. We found ourselves a new drummer. At this point it was me, sam(on guitar and vocals), chris(on bass) and our new drummer danny who nobody ever heard of. Danny was a strange kid, with a crazy attitude. He didnt know his way around the neighborhood, and we didnt understand him alot of the time, but we knew he played the drums good, so thats all that mattered. Our band, INC, played a show mixed with covers and originals that really we're thrown together in a matter of minutes. One was even written at the show.
Before we broke into the music scene, we had no idea how much competition was out there, just in this area. There were tons of bands. "Where could they all have came from?", i thought to myself..
Well we played the show and of course we sucked, and thank god the crowd was supportive anyways. The all saw us as a couple of young kids doing thier own thing for the fun of it. But thats not how i saw us. I had much higher expectations for us. I saw us as a failure of a band and i was very pissed off about it. I had to do something. Back to practice we went.. i had many ideas for songs but we just could not make them work. They wouldnt end up the way i imagined. A few months after the show, our bassist left and it was just me sam and danny until the following november of 2000. During this time period, i had fun playing and writing, but when i thought about it, this was killing me. I wanted something better. That was during my freshmen year, which can explain why, in part, i seemed to be pissed off at the entire world. After a little while, we found out that there was another show coming up, so we got on it. We got our friend Pat to play bass for us, and for the first time on stage, we got the crowd's attention. And for the right reasons, not just for being young and energetic, but we had some very original stuff going on. I