A History of the band the way I saw it.
Eventually it boiled down to Jay and me (it always does). We found a bassist, JJ, but that kinda fell apart, too. By then, we were using Noncoo as our name (having to do with this girl Jay knew - Nancee, so it meant Nancee with o's).
For awhile, everything became a haze, and I don't remember what happened until Blind Sight, the current name, which I think will stick. We had about ten people in the band, though half of them couldn't play anything. On the way to the first practice, we saw a guy stealing a pile of bricks. When Josh Knowles (a "guitarist") shouted out, "Hey, that guy's stealing bricks!", we had a band name, but when everyone else arrived that didn't see the guy stealing bricks, they thought the name sucked, so it somehow became Blind Sight, not Stealing Bricks.
We held a few practices, and did okay, but everyone kind of fell out and it was back to Jay and me again (suprise?). Since then, Jay switched from guitar to drums, which was a good move. I've been the keyboardist the whole time, though. We played one "gig" at our college for Jay's music appreciation class, and have been taking it from there since. We added Joe and Jarett to our lineup, and briefly changed names to R.I.P. The System. This didnt last and the band split. Now its just Jay and I again, making music like always. We are back as a full band again. Jarett, our old bassist from Rip came back, and Charlie is our new guitarist and our singer is Josh. We are also no longer Blind Sight, we are called High Society, but this may not last now because of the fact that High Society was an old Porn Mag. We just had our first gig this past Friday, it went well. We made some mistakes but all in all we had fun. It was real good experience, and makes me want to do it again.
Our origin goes back to 1996, when Jay and I ended up in the same keyboard class in 10th grade. Jay had recently gotten a new guitar and was starting a band with our friend Lance. When I showed Jay a song I wrote, "Once in a Lifetime," he recruited me into his band. (the song now sounds completely different, and Jay added to it) Eventually, Lance kind of fell out, and another friend, RC ended up in the band (despite not knowing anything musically). RC came up with our first name, the Chips. Jay tried to teach RC the harmonica and then guitar, but RC just couldn't play (or sing) so he got booted. So all we had was a guitarist and a keyboardist.
Phill's solo music
