The journey of finding other musicians on Craigslist..

So we lost our original guitarist, Ty, then we lost our other guitarist Adam. It seems like band members are dropping like flies on us.  I’m gonna go ahead and attribute it to the fact that the remaining members have body odor issues.  Or maybe they didn’t like that we followed them home and watched them slumber ever so sweetly.  Those night vision goggles really brought out the color in their eyes…..

So now, we’re back to our trusty musician-locator-networking-hub of glory, Craigslist. Or what i like to call, “Where both Wackos and Decent Musicians find Kindred Spirits”. Thankfully, we’ve had nothing but really cool people come down and audition for us, and even tho it didn’t work out, they were all decent people that I wish nothing but the best. Except for this one guy, we’ll call him Neil, who came down to the studio, listened to the music and proceeded to say that he hated rock music and then quite brashly explained to us that what music he was doing then (I think it was Indian Free-Form Jazz?) was heads and shoulders above everything that was currently going on in the Twin Cities.  My urge to kill was never as strong and the one time that it was, a swath of dead hookers that Eagan has never recovered from.  But I gritted my teeth and allowed him to leave the premises alive.

Other than that, we found everyone in the band thru Craigslist and oddly enough, none of us in the band are what you call native Twin Citians(? whatever…) And now we have two new guitarists that I hope will stick around for a long time.  Introductions in the next segment…

The journey of finding other musicians on Craigslist..

So we lost our original guitarist, Ty, then we lost our other guitarist Adam. It seems like band members are dropping like flies on us.  I’m gonna go ahead and attribute it to the fact that the remaining members have body odor issues.  Or maybe they didn’t like that we followed them home and watched them slumber ever so sweetly.  Those night vision goggles really brought out the color in their eyes…..

So now, we’re back to our trusty musician-locator-networking-hub of glory, Craigslist. Or what i like to call, “Where both Wackos and Decent Musicians find Kindred Spirits”. Thankfully, we’ve had nothing but really cool people come down and audition for us, and even tho it didn’t work out, they were all decent people that I wish nothing but the best. Except for this one guy, we’ll call him Neil, who came down to the studio, listened to the music and proceeded to say that he hated rock music and then quite brashly explained to us that what music he was doing then (I think it was Indian Free-Form Jazz?) was heads and shoulders above everything that was currently going on in the Twin Cities.  My urge to kill was never as strong and the one time that it was, a swath of dead hookers that Eagan has never recovered from.  But I gritted my teeth and allowed him to leave the premises alive.

Other than that, we found everyone in the band thru Craigslist and oddly enough, none of us in the band are what you call native Twin Citians(? whatever…) And now we have two new guitarists that I hope will stick around for a long time.  Introductions in the next segment…

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Morning Society is a culmination of the musical efforts of Mervin Chin (vocals/guitar/synth), Doug Shelby (drums & percussion), and Tom Trenka (bass/synths/vocals), all of whom found each other through the community of the Minneapolis music scene.

Morning Society embodies a diverse aural style, spanning from one end of the spectrum to the other--and everything in between. From ambient indie to hard-hitting rock, Morning Society is emotional, thoughtful and well-crafted without losing accessibility.

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