Have you ever wanted to collaborate with other musicians in an already tightly-knit music scene? Well, I learned a very easy way to do it in Fairbanks this past weekend. It's called "Pub League."
Connor Rainor, EJ Skinner, and a few others get a hold of about 25 interested musicians from all over the area, divvy them up into five bands, give them four or five hours to come up with three songs - usually two covers and an original from scratch. My band "Lil Wayne, feat. Lil Wayne" opted for two originals and one cover instead. Later that evening, ya head to a local bar, perform in a battle of the bands type of competition and a single one is crowned the Pub League Champions. We took that crown last night.
It consisted of a bassist named Poncho, keyboardist Eric Lonn (from the band Work), singer/keyboarist Isaac Paris (from the band Paper Scissors), and a guest "rapper," Patrick, who's a roommate of Connor's. We ended up meshing pretty well from the get-go. Here are the tracks and a brief explanation of what we performed.
1) "Cowboy Cassanova ST" is a jam we came up with at the very beginning of practice just to get a little loose and continue from there.
2) "White Liar Demo" is our ridiculous take on "Digital Love" by Daft Punk sung with the like-vocals of Louis Armstrong. My only backing vocals come in the form of a "woooo!" around 2:30, haha.
3) "Cowboy Cassanova Demo" is a rap we all collaborated with by writing random lines on pieces of paper and passing them around to add more lines. Patrick sounded super uncomfortable rapping while Isaac did a pretty good job of taking on the style of the Beastie Boys.
Download them here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/
I'm already looking forward to the next one. Enjoy!
