Im yet to address why the EP changed so drastically. The more I guess I could say dominant reason was that I just feel that the more soulful funkier songs i wrote just sounded more creative and had more substance behind them but secondly the musicians i was working with prior weren't able to fulfill what was expected of them also not having a blues rock vocalist to work with was also very limiting. However i am very pleased with the change and i still feel challenged by writing in a new genre of music that i enjoy listening to and creating.
Change of musicians Over the course of this project I've had to change the people in which i collaborated with. At the beginning the plan was to work with two other musicians. Jaymie Porter (Bass) and Rhys Battle (Drums) having my self playing the guitar. However there were two main issues that had rose the prevented me from doing so. The first was the lack of motivation these musicians had to practice which led to them not being able to play to the standard I wished them too. Although the drummer did have knowledge on how to drum I found that he was just not willing to dedicate him self the way I would of wanted him too. This came apparent to me during rehearsal sessions where he had repeatedly failed to of learned his parts. The situation with the bassist was much worse as he just did not know how to play bass. Although that is what he considered to be his main instrument it was apparent that he was not committed nor efficient in his instrument of choice. Not only was it a prob...
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