Skipping Stones Records

Our good friend and the man behind indiepages, Chris Mac from Seattle, WA, came over on Thursday. William went to pick him up at the airport in the afternoon. Not sure what to do, they went to the local record shop, Brass City Records in Waterbury, CT, where Chris proceeded to find tons of great stuff. Personally, I don’t have the patience to wade through piles and piles of $1 bins, but Chris found some really excellent CDs, and lots of cool presents for people! He gave us a copy of Red Sleeping Beauty on Siesta Records. Red Sleeping Beauty is a Swedish pop band that Mikael Matsson was in. Mikael is now in the Skipping Stones Records band The Charade. This is the same CD that someone on The Charade forum was looking for! I’m not sure if I should say that we found a copy!

I had to work late and I was really bummed. But I was able to get home by 8:30pm with a pizza in tow. Little did I know how much pizza we would consume over the weekend! When I came in, Chris was playing my bass guitar and the boys were having fun. We also had a little musical play in the practice space later on. I was itching to play bass and we had talked about it, so finally I said “Let’s Go!” at about 9pm. Actually, I had said, “Let’s practice!” and they looked at me weird. So I said, “What am I supposed to say, LET’S JAM???”

Ha ha. We don’t “jam.”

William and Chris switched a little, but I stuck with bass most of the time. Chris is exceptionally talented and could play almost anything on the guitar. Then William switched to keys and Chris played the drums, although it was set up awkwardly for him. Chris tried to teach me a New Order bass riff, but I kept getting the timing wrong. Ah, well, I’ll practice and next time it will be even more awesome!

Later we found some strings and Chris changed the crappy rusty strings on my guitar.