Uninteresting Developments

1) In our world, the life of a starting indie post-rock band is that of eternal struggling. All of Righteous Love lives within reasonable distance away from each other, say 10-15minutes. Except Tolik. He lives an hour away. 30+ miles from all the rest of the band. Regardless, trying to be the proactive musicians we are, we try to make things work.

2) Where to practice? Where can a band practice, be loud, and comfortable experimenting? These are questions soon to be answered concretely for Righteous Love. A band needs to have a practice space. A place where they can feel comfortable, loud, and distraction free. A practice space is exactly what's in the works for our little ole' band. New Life Church aka "the Russian church" will be letting us have a chunk of their seemingly limitless amount of practicing space. What does this mean for you, our audience? Well, a record. We can record there, comfortably, and free of distraction.

3) How does a new band start playing shows?
You become an opener. Networking is everything and things might be looking up for Righteous Love.
If things go like we'd want them to, we might actually be an opener for The Howling Tongues. Right, another unknown band. Yeah, but they play shows. We'll play shows with them.

4) Equipment. Where do you get what you need to record?
Well, they've got a Presonus 16 channel digital sound board at the Russian practice space, so there's that.

Introducing, The Band

Two posts into this blog and I've yet to divulge the full details of the musicians in Righteous Love, I'd say I'm doing pretty well. Well, In this post, I break that tradition and expose the dirty details of who's in Righteous Love. Starting with: the Handsome Zach Howard.

Yes, ridiculously handsome and incredibly adept vocalist are a few descriptors that could be said for this sweet man, but what about, "sweet tattoo... owner?". Zach can wail and scream, he can also sound sweeter than watermelon on a hot summer day at the lake.

I've alluded to Seth Howard, our drummer, in the previous post.

Okay, yes, you guessed it. They are brothers. This whole brothers thing might just be a recurring theme. Regardless, Seth Howard is an incredible drummer and his triplets drive me up the wall in ecstasy. No, those are not his drums, just Jordan's practice kit. 

Oh look, Jordan Cross.  

The bass player, you can see him in his natural homeostasis. A strange breed, grooving and booming about with a 4 string-ed instrument. Jordan holds a deep rhythmic pocket with Seth, they share their feelings with one another allowing them to funk in a deep hypnotic bass/beat cacophony.

Here comes the recurring brotherly theme again. Our lead guitar player, Ryan Cross.
Yes, Ryan and Jordan are brothers, its just fact.

When his fingers touch the strings of his tangerine guitar a signal then travels through a cable, surging though his tasteful array of effects pedals causing his amp to emit sounds of great gnarl. Ryan wouldn't be caught dead at a contest for being the fastest guitar player, but he'd win the under-appreciated tasteful player award every time. 

Lastly, yours truely. The man writing this very blog. Tolik Sirotinsky. 

I stand, humbled in the dining room of my friend's house, glad. It's always been a dream of mine to be able to play music with my friends. A band where, you don't have to force music, songs just seem to write themselves. Your friends' sounds inspire you, your friends' drive, focus, and dedication all inspire you. You want to be the best that you can so you don't let your friends down. A band where your friends are just as excited about the music you've been playing as you are. It isn't just a group of people who follow some formula to hold a steady tempo and play the right notes. A band that is a working organism and every part is a cell that is essential to the makeup of that organism. Righteous Love.