John Natiw Music

Wow, what a busy week. Aside from all the personal things that come up in everyone’s lives, the band has been killing it all week. Dave, Lisa and myself rehearsed with Seven Bridges on Tuesday. I’ll be filling in for their drummer Rick on August 8th. But that wasn’t the only time I got to play with them this week. More about that later.

Thursday was the big day for us. We played live in studio at WHFR.FM at Henry Ford Community College. The tracks we’ve posted on our page are taken from that performance. We were all pretty nervous, but it seemed to go well. Thanks to Karen for flying out to Wonderland Music 15 minutes before we went live to buy me a new capo. Yes, I forgot mine. Very embarrassing. I’ve put the new one in my guitar case for good! Lesson learned.

Friday we got to play at a new open mic show around town. The South Lyon Church of Christ (where Dave and Lisa attend) put on a great show! We got to do two sets of music for the large crowd. We also got to hear a set from Kathy  who is a regular at Solid Grounds as well as Barb’s first performance of her first song! It’s called “I Never Got Tired of Kissing That Girl”. Great work Barb. Very touching.

Saturday we dodged the rain and had a ball playing at Megan’s grad party. This would also turn out to be a big day. This would mark the first time that all the members of Arlington Station and Seven Bridges would play on the same stage at the same time. Ryan also joined the band sandwich. We played two songs as a unit and it was a riot. Dave on bass, Lisa sang, Keith on lead guitar, Ryan and I on acoustic and Ron on violin. Thanks for the great time and CONGRATULATIONS MEGAN!

After jamming long into the night it finally was time to pack it all up and go home. I knew if I didn’t get this posted tonight I never would.

I’m off to bed! See you all on Friday at Solid Grounds Coffee Shop in Northville! We’ll be ready to rock again!

John