The Fall-The End of Madrid. & The Last show @ McCaullifes Pub

I knew it wouldn't last forever. Almost from day one, I knew deep down Madrid. was a downward spiral. Saturday, the 5th of December, we called it quits at our last gig in (of all places) Racine. A few weeks before the event, Alex the bassist announced (after Nick, the guitarist couldn't practice a day) that he was going to leave the group to play in a metal/prog/rock project. Nick and I were actually pretty pleased because we knew he was irritated for quite some time. Nick wrote 98 percent of the songs we played. Alex couldn't handle the basic bass parts that were pretty much cemented in. Nick and I didn't like having to drive out to Racine to play in dinky small bars for people who weren't even watching us (thanks to the UFC fight last Sat.) So, we were pretty stoked to finish off Madrid. But we wanted to end our year-long group on a high-note.

Saturday, we played Blank Fest 3 at McCaullife's, which went decently well. We played second after a bar-band called Rest of Yesterday. They were solid, but that's about it. Drumming was very basic, despite the guy having a very expensive set of hi-hats (which I ended up drumming on). After the first song, I got really exhausted because I hit the skins with so much intensity. After that song, I thought "man, I've got like, 9 more to go!" The rest of the set went swimmingly despite losing a drum sticks during "Oliver's Army" and breaking one on our closing song "The Fall". Overall, the night went pretty well and I thought I played the best I could. Thunder Driver was next and they were metal-esque. So obviously, my wife and I left at the drop of the first few notes.

I'll keep the blog posted on my new project with Nick and our new keys/bass player