Musical Goodness

In my spare time tonight I was reminiscing about the past couple years. I was thinking about the good times and the bad times and I started listening to my iTunes library on random. Well, this led to me remembering a time last year when I got the opportunity spend a few weeks playing music with some amazingly talented people. Taylor and I have been writing music for the last few years (although not very consistently) and we decided to try and throw together a band for the Guitars Unplugged event at BYU. We grabbed a guy named Tyler on drums, his friend on guitar and a guy from my lib square ward named Brad. All cool guys and very talented musicians. The song: Enjoy the Ride. Taylor and I wrote that when I lived at Jamestown (in the ever cool 61st ward) and I always kinda thought of it as my favorite. It had only been one guitar and vocals at that point. We spend the next 2 or 3 weeks practicing like mad and throwing together a new version of the song with two guitar parts, vocals, background vocals, bass and drums. It was a lot of work and extremely fun. We threw together what I consider to be an awesome song. Unfortunately the Guitars Unplugged judges didn't agree, and we all still feel we got shafted on that one. For the record we went to the show and there were many acts who were of much less talent but catered to the judges. In other words, it was all politics. Anyway, here you have the best recording of our band playing the song. And by best I don't mean good. We had one mic for recording and it wasn't a studio mic, just a mic. This was mostly for our practice purposes so we could listen and learn our parts, it was never meant for public listening. With that in mind, I still think it sounds pretty good, even with the timing sometimes off and the levels being all over the place.