Ethnography Results Week 8

This past week the band has slowed down a little bit after their first big show with the new guitarist. Practices continue to occur and new events are popping up in the next couple of days. The next show that they will be doing is opening for another band here in College Station at Wolfpen Creek. The practices that have been happening lately have been a little different than usual as the whole band is in College Station rather than back in Dallas. As before, the practices were usually an all day affair and started in the morning at around 11 (different every day for various reasons) and lasted until 10 at night. This was only separated by meals and slight breaks. The breaks usually were sitting around drinking and telling some jokes or whatever came up in order to lighten the mood. Sometimes band set lists and other logistics came up but not usually. After the last gig however the practices have gotten a little different. Now being in College Station, they practice at the guitarists house. Since the guitarist is still in school, this requires the practicing to be a little more brief and to the point. This is not a problem though because the reason they were practicing so long before was to have the guitarist learn the songs. Now that he has gotten most of the songs down they only need to practice for a couple hours most days.

The leader of the band also got a deal with another band to write and play a song together. He is going to collaborate with a girl that he has played with before and has similar music to his own. They met in Waco on Friday and started writing the song and some basics for everything.