Start me up!

As an introvert myself, the staying indoors portion of the last couple of years has been a godsend. Maybe not a ‘godsend’ but you know what I mean: Working from home; Not wasting time in traffic; Being confined to the place I feel most comfortable in with the people I’m closest to; these things have been great! I’ve never practiced as much (guitar) so I’ve never played better and I’ve never accomplished as much as I have in the last 2 years. Granted that it didn’t happen due to Covid alone as my change began with losing my job in 2019 and being forced to make changes that I simply continued to pursue throughout 2020 despite Covid.

There were and still are plenty of challenges, fears and confusion as well as the actual illness itself and all the physical, psychological, and social damage it has caused but those small ‘positives’ I’m referring to were pretty much all I/we had to hold on to while waiting for the pandemic to take its course and while waiting for vaccines etc.

It’s been a heck of a roller coaster ride that’s for certain but it may finally be time to get back to ‘normal’ albeit a different normal than what we’ve been used to.

There are still plenty of question marks on how exactly we need to proceed to go back to normal. Not only is it confusing to know what is ok or safe to do, we just don’t know what to expect when temperatures cool down again and flu season rolls back in or whether these vaccines have helped or not.

That said, we’ve decided to start the band back up and now comes the challenge of logistics. What songs will we play? What styles? What equipment will we need? Who will play what? Where will we practice? When do we practice? How often? Small things but huge questions for everyone involved as everyone has their personal situations that need to be considered.

We’re all a little confused right now but we’re also all excited as there is much to benefit from in hanging out with good people, performing with and exchanging ideas with good musicians with good intentions and at some point sharing our efforts with family and friends as well.

I’m looking forward to this so much and I can’t wait to get some answers.

For now, I’m tuning up and tuning out but please do stay tuned for more updates.

Sincerely,

Frank 😎👍