No More Cold Lunch

Sack Lunch jammed for the last time today. We jammed over an hour and touched base on all our favorite SL tunes: Awesome-sauce, The Masterpiece, Summertime Rag, The New One, The Reggae Jam among others. We also explored a bit toward the end figuring out some pretty cool jazzy changes. Sack Lunch developed out of some lunch-time jams with a substitute band director. When he left, I still wanted to jam during lunch. Dave and Ben jumped on board right away although Ben didn't know how to play bass. In the beginning, Dave and I would jam as I taught Ben bass simultaneously. The lunch-time jam soon became a regular thing. People would mingle in and out and watch us play as they ate their lunch in the band room. Through this practice/show scenario, we were able to spread the buzz among the high school as well as work on our jams. It was during this period that The Masterpiece became a masterpiece and our other jams were formed. Awesome-sauce was written during the lunch-time sessions as a slower, mellow, lets-see-where-this-goes jam as well. At some point, we decided to play a few legitimate shows, albeit most were in some illegitimate venues. We played the Hotel in Trempealeau multiple times, the Showcase at the high school, the junior post-prom and a couple garages. We got together on the idea that all we wanted to do was play. We didn't want to write or sing or rehearse. We just wanted to play. And through that, we figured out how to be a band.