All in all, there were potentially 3 bands I knew about that were about to form, they just needed a drummer, and I figured it couldn't be all that hard. So I set to work. I practiced with my spoons, and got the basic rock beat down, but I could barely pick out beats in songs. Perhaps that's why in May of 2001 Nate and the rest of what would later become Liquid Blue picked David Wolfe over me. No hard feelings, I was hardly ready to play in a band. Even so, I went to Alex, and that summer talked about the band he had thought about forming with Jon and Jeff. I didn't even have a set at that point, but we agreed we should probably go ahead and start the band up, and before long I'd bought a set, we'd talked to Jon, and we were practicing by the beginning of August. At the same time, Cake and Beer formed with my brother and some of his friends, and I drummed for them. However, even though I was only starting at the drums, I had enough natural talent to outplay everyone else in the band, and by the end of that school year we were fairly well broken up.
So the Jon band (more formally known as the Carnivorous Goats) kept on practicing, and within a couple months we had recruited Jeff, albeit against Doelder's will. Until about Jan. of 2002, we had only one song. One. But we played that song, and about as crappily as it's ever been played, at the AHANAs talent show. We lost. But this apparently fueled us on to do bigger and better things, and by May we had at least the skeletons of 4 more songs. And then Alex and I quit. We had gotten sick of Doelder deciding everything (except the drums, he couldn't play them), and we wanted someone else to sing. Before we quit, however, we started __________ on May 16, 2002. We didn't have a name, but we had decided to be kind of a mix of things, and play whatever songs we felt like writing. That meant having a keyboard, a sax, and a female singer. Jeff was actually the last person we asked to join the band, but he soon destroyed any doubt s we had had about him. He wrote the bulk of our songs, and soon took on singing them as we agreed songs about girls sung by girls were, though interesting, not what we were about. Come to think about it, this is where Jeff takes over the band completely. We kick out our keyboardist, lose faith in our rhythm guitarist, ask Nicole to play rhythm guitar, lose faith in her, ask Carlos to play rhythm guitar, lose faith in him, ask my brother to sing, he got too busy to show to practices, and finally we gave up on Alex and replaced him with Eric, who had been playing rhythm guitar for us for a couple of weeks, partially because we thought we might replace Alex with him. And during all of that we named ourselves Accidental Casualties, and in February we changed our name to Anything And. And for the most part, Jeff brought on all of these changes. Though I spose it's not all a bad thing. I mean, now we have this nifty website and all. That's pretty much how I see things. Now we're just looking at recording, merchandising, and then getting some shows, and eventually groupies. But one step at a time.
