Baby Steps

My Band Big East is trying to find it's own sound. 

I've been writing songs for a while now and I believe I'm getting progressively better at it.  However, my band "Big East" is also on a progression.  We first formed in October of 2010.  Mark Sylvah and I had been playing together for a while before this, but it wasn't a serious effort.  I ran across Kip Daynard at a fund raiser we were both involved with.  I heard Kip sing and knew he could do that well enough, but I also thought that maybe he could play an instrument.  Don't ask me how, but the look in his eye when he was watching the piano during rehearsals made me think he could play.  I was right.  More than right.  Kip is an excellent musician and plays guitar to boot!

Since we started we've been going through the aches and pains of any new group and at the same time I've been all over the place in my songwriting style.  We have made decent efforts at songs like "September Rain" and "Hey Caroline", but my opinion is that we've not found our niche nor reached our potential as a trio.

We recently added Doug Banwell on bass and sax and Bruce Templeton on percussion. Both fine and experienced musicians.  Doug's arrival coincided with my writing of "Blue Monday".  Doug was instrumental in creating the mood for that song.  He created the piano, bass and sax parts in a single afternoon session with me.

We all live in the Huntsville, Ontario region and the number of venues available for us to play as a five piece (relatively unknown) band is very small.  Doug and Bruce will be joining us wherever possible, but we will continue to perform as a trio in smaller venues.