I weened myself off of playing music and really "following" hardcore about a year ago. I was working up to 60 hours a week, I was ready to get into a serious relationship, and I was ready to settle down and finish out college to get serious about a career, or life, or whatever people call it when they make that decision. In the past 3 months I have felt my entire thought process shift. I can't explain it, all I want to do is detach myself from everything and get back to writing and touring.
Unfortunately, while making this decision I have ruined a great relationship with my constant flakiness and inability to really cope with a lot of things going on in my own mind. For the first time in my life I am standing by myself having to make decisions that affect me and my future, I don't have a guide, or a "parent" there to tell me what is the best choice. Since my parents getting a divorce, my Dad deciding to move to China, my Mom mostly falling out of my life, and my future in general being something that I am more than unsure about, I have found myself venting with music. This town holds nothing close to me and I am ready to start moving again.
Former Thieves came about a few months back when Josh Parks and I were sitting up late one night talking about music and reminiscing all the outrageous and fun time we have had on the road. Within this conversation we both realized that we both were in the same place in life, questioning what was next, and it only made sense that the best of times that each of of have ever had, was playing in bands, writing music, and touring all over the place.
We decided it would be logical to start up our band Desperation again, we left Desperation in a place where we could pick it back up and continue on if we wanted to, no last show was ever played. Our dear friend Josh Sparks had recently moved back to Cedar Falls after living in Buffalo and playing in Damiera and who I had played in Spirit of the Stairway with, so we thought that it was only logical to sit down and see if he was interested in playing drums with us. We got Josh on board and this whole idea starting picking up momentum. We made a phone call to Brad and Cole Highnam down in Iowa City to see if they wanted to sit down with us and talk music. A week later the 5 of us were having a conversation about playing music again, and this time taking the band full time, and making this band our lives. Brad and Cole have a lot of things going on with both of them and it didn't sound like the amount of touring and time we were talking about putting into this was on the same par that they were looking for.
Back to square one the 3 of us decided we would start a new band and start writing music immediately and build things from there. As of right now things are going better than could be expected. We are close to having a set ready to go, we are in talks with a few characters to fill in our vacant bass spot, we are going in to record for a 3 song that we will be touring off of this summer, tour is actually mapped out, artwork is being put into place, vans are being looked at, and we are looking into all moving in together, so we could logically live off of this band.
Things are moving so quickly, but I feel that the 3 of us have a good enough grasp on reality that things aren't moving too fast. I am more excited about this band than I have been in years!
With that being said, this is the beginning of an avalanche in my life, and I really want to share all the moments with anybody that cares to listen! I'll try to keep this thing updated as best as possible! Thank you everyone!
Matt S
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