Whiskey Metal

Well, I am back in a band again. Boy, it feels great after my last band Sciatica disbanded well over a year ago(the longest period of time I've ever gone without being in a band since I started playing music almost 17 years ago). The band is called The John Wayne Whiskey Experiment and we formed a little over 2 years ago, but went on hiatus a year ago and just decided to start playing again. The band did consist of myself on drums/vocals, Joey on guitar/vocals and chris on vocals. The new lineup thus far is myself and Joey, and Chris is up in the air. He wants to switch over to playing bass for the band, but we've yet to hear from him and have had two practices so far without him, so time will tell if it remains a 2-piece(like it originally started), or as the 3-piece that we were before we took a little time off. The beauty of it is that I'm finally getting to play music with other people, and it's metal(which I love more than any other style of music). We have a lot of fun, and there's no pressure in the band...just friends having fun, playing cool music, and letting off some steam. We should be ready to play shows in a couple of months, followed by a demo, merch, and more shows.... We've been polishing up the old songs, and working on some new material. Our sound is a variety of hardcore/metal/comedy... we take inspiration when writing from bands like Obituary, Madball, Terror, Killswitch Engage, Cannibal Corpse, Converge, S.O.D., Hatebreed, Slayer, and many other kickass heavy fucking bands. It really started as a joke one night when me and Joey were getting drunk and talking about starting a side band while he was in Diverge and I was in Sciatica. Somehow we actually ended up getting together a few months later and writing some songs really quickly, making some funny ass song titles and then we just kept practicing, got a website up, then believe it or not started playing some shows. Since I'm a guitar player, it really shouldn't have been that good with me on drums, but somehow I'm an ok drummer and the songs Joey wrote were actually really good, and after a few months we actually sounded like a halfway decent band, and started getting some fans not only for the comedy aspect of it, but the music as well. We make fun of anything we can think of, and probably offend a lot of people who hear us, but we don't give a shit. It's good fun, and I'm glad to be in a band again and who knows, we could keep this band alive for many years to come since there's no goals or aspirations for us other than hanging out, having fun, and playing some heavy music.
The painful part of it would obviously be that I'm a classically trained guitarist and I'm instead playing drums in a half-serious/half-joke metal band called The John Wayne Whiskey Experiment. Obviously I always wanted to play guitar in a killer metal band for a living(and I tried for nearly 16 years straight and just fell short), so being the drummer in a band that's probably not really that great is a little bit of a downer. So there you go again, the beauty and the pain of it. Music...what a bitch!