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Current mood:Thinking about the gravity
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
So Flee The Century started in May of 2003 under the name "Right Turn, Danger" and we loved writing music and playing a lot of shows. It was exciting to perform and we all got really addicted to it. The musicianship wasn't good to start but we didn't care...we just went for it. Over the course of five years, we learned how to play our instruments and got way better at writing songs. Within a year, we started touring and had a good three year run of doing that. It was exciting booking shows....even though a lot of them ended up sucking pretty bad. We were happy getting paid eight dollars and performing in front of Nine human beings. Things changed though. Quitting our jobs all the time and going on these tours got expensive and didn't seem to payoff for us at all. It has always been fun, but it got frusterating and depressing as shows always got canceled, even after driving 21 hours to get there sometimes. As we got better and wrote better music, our standards changed of course, thus, playing shows to 20 people and getting paid 30 bucks wasn't going to cut it. So touring wasn't working out. Why be a band if you don't at least try to tour? Why play your hometown exclusively and that's it? Especially if you live in a small town like Spokane compared to playing in New York City exclusively. I looked at bands that were playing on decent tours like Tera Melos, VCR, and Attractive and Popular and it seemed like it wasn't paying off that much for them either.....and they were doing way better than us! I thought, wow, we probably wont make it to their popularity level and they were still broke. Booking tours through 17 year old sketchy kids and relying on them completely got very frusterating. We would drive for eight hours and some kid could just call us and cancel the show. Since we didn't have a booking agency and probably didn't have a huge chance of doing so.....that's how we had to do it. I hated that a lot. Those dumbass bookers (you know who you are) didn't even think about what we had to sacrifice just to make it to a show....and because their mom grounded them, they flake out. Kind of depressing when your 24 years old huh?
The drummer of this band Jordan had his van, which was also our tour van, break down completely this year. He isn't going to get it fixed either. So now we didn't even have a shot at touring even if we wanted to. We weren't practicing because we didn't even have to drive to write anything new and didn't have a place to even practice. As the last year unfolded, our drive to do much with the band dwindled and dwindled because there didn't seem to be much hope to get past the level that we were currently at. It would have been nice to get on a good label and to get booked on decent tours... but it just seemed to be impossible. We tried sending demo's, making friends, playing shows out of town....anything to help the band but nothing ever worked.
I made the decision to move to the east coast to follow my dream of working in the pro wrestling business; not as a wrestler, but in the creative process somehow. Music isn't my first passion as it is for most other musicians. I could either make 20 dollars a night playing music to nine people (the 20 dollars then went to gas) and be broke for the remainder of the band, or try to work in a decent paying industry were i would have more fun. The other members of the band want to move away as well to do their own thing. Touring was impossible, we had no place to practice, and we wanted to move. Looks like the band can't be a band any longer.
I put a lot of work into the band and had many sleepless nights booking and doing whatever else to improve the band. Doing any more work on the band seemed pointless as of recent. I guess people could say "well you tour cause it's fun and you shouldn't care about all the other stuff....". True. Playing live was fun but it also wasn't fun to not be able to make it to a show because you didn't have enough money for gas to do so. It's an endless cycle for most bands. Very few make it to mid range status to where they can even tour and make a tad bit of money to pay a couple phone bills. It's all fine and dandy when you first start out but can really take a toll on your self esteem after four years in a row of it.
We made one last album for the hell of it really. Just something for us to listen to i guess. It will be for sale though. It's our best stuff, which seems to happen to a lot of bands that are breaking up around the albums release. Were going to send it to major labels to see if they say anything....haha just for fun. I hope we get signed to something cool, then we tell them to "eat our poop, Ren." very childish of course.
We have creative minds and will probably end up doing something in the performance area as a career someday...just probably not in touring bands in our mid-thirties. I don't take anything for granted and have loved every bit of being in this band and have a lot of cool pictures because of it that i wouldn't have had otherwise. We just wanted to make interesting music that wasn't "metal-kore," "emo," "alternative," and especially not "ROCK." I think we accomplished as much as we could and got a few people to start listening to bands that didn't have guitars in it a little more.
We appreciate anyone that has helped our band along the way and it was a wild/fun/terrible/great/depressing/supernatural five years. Come to our last show listed on our mainpage.
leave comments to this if we know you and you helped us. Thanks people.
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