Bringing It Live

So, dig it, people: The James Rocket is a real live band now, playing shows that you can go see.

I'd actually not been too confident that it would ever happen. Not for any lack of faith in the songs, but simply because I was sure that if I was ever going to have a band playing my songs, I'd have to have hired them. And I've no budget for that, so I figured, oh well.

But then, back in July, Lon Rozelle - who had played drums for a while with me in A Bunch Of Girls - shot me a note asking if I wanted to work on some of my songs with him. So we did. And it worked, so I brought Vanya Edwards (also a bandmate in A Bunch Of Girls) in on guitar. And that worked - mostly.



I found that playing bass and singing the songs forced me to compromise too much on both parts, so a lot of the bass hooks were missing. And almost all of the songs really call for two guitars, so a lot of the guitar hooks were missing. So Lon and Vanya fired me on bass, shifted me to guitar, and I bit the bullet and went on Craigslist to find a bass player...


... and immediately struck gold with Tommy Cooke, who turned out to be a super nice guy as well as a righteous bass player.

Last Sunday, we played our debut at Otto's Shrunken Head. Here's most of the first song: 

Both The James Rocket and A Bunch Of Girls are playing Lit Lounge on February 27th. Come on out.