I’ve been away from the blog, but not away. The band has undergone some major changes. Our lead electric guitarist, Jim, left the band about a year ago. We played as a trio for about 6-9 months. It sounded okay, but it was missing something without both lead guitar and backup vocals. I neglected to mention thats Maya, our backup vocalist, just had her second child and was out of commission for the foreseeable future. Playing as a trio was a good experiment, though, because it proved to me that I could do it and it was still passable. You’re definitely more nimble as a smaller number.
As luck would have it, a fine guitarist we’d seen playing with another band a year back, became available after his own band evaporated. Chito Salazar plays a different style from Jim and, unlike Jim, enjoys the front of the stage. A married couple, Monique & Claude Hache, answered an ad for backup vocals and turned out to be professional singers in their own right with a lot of broadway-type show experience. The band has a different feel and energy.
