david's collage days part eleven
Upon finding the guitar David now had to look for a bass guitar and a drummer he knew two already.
First David went to mike who played bass, David then took a few lesions with mike and he became a pro, then mike phoned up Allen who played drums and he was more then willing to come and have a go.
David started with the intro,
"So we have on lead voices miss Sarah".
Sarah gives a quick little test voice this was just her going la, la, la getting loader on each note.
"On bass guitar mad mike", he give's a quick guitar rip this was all four strings.
"On drums Mr. Badass Allen", he thumps the drums loudly in a rhyme to the song Queen we will rock you.
"And then there's me on lead guitar David destroyer, and were here to rock you block! I give a quick rip of all the notes.
"okay every one"
They all play at once.
"Okay we have the intro but now two things what do we call our self's and what shot of music do we play?"
Mike, Allen, David and Sarah all looked in a thinking mode they all ar and hmmed, then Sarah said "let's do pop!"
The band said "NO there are too many pop bands out there already"
Mike said "how about country?"
"No" said Allen "there are no drums in country and if there are they only play a simple beat".
Then David said "hay what about rock?",
Every body loved that idea.
"Now we have a gene what do we call our selves?",
Everybody gave a long hard think, more ars and hmmms, then David said
"Hay how about TOXIC SUSAGE"
Everybody loved that idea a band named after food.
Seeing as no other bands had ever named them selves after food it seemed right.
"Now we've got the gene, the name, but do any of us have any songs?"
Every body thought long and hard until mike said
"Inspection comes from the pub let's go"
Everybody went to the pub and they were all thinking of good tracks but no lyric's and after 5 to 6 pints, mike had ten plus, everybody's idea's sounded the same or it was all ready done so every body went home to try and think of a song.
That night David had a brainwave whist making a cheese toasted sand wedge he thought of a song and rote it down.
In the morning Sarah found David asleep on the couth with a bit of paper, Sarah was wondering what was on the paper and had a little look see as she read she was amazed at what David had rite.
"David this great",
She said beginning to sing it and remembering the words.
At about 11:45 am the band looked over David's work and said this is good and started to play.
First Sarah was to sing the voices and then David with guitar then mike on bass and Allen on drums then David sliced it together and they played it here are the words.
Soft guitar music then Sarah comes in
"cheese and bread what are we waiting for you should be in that toaster but not before I've tasted you, you have too get the machine ready and now it time to burn!" inter drums and bass then it makes no sense just a lot of words that mean nothing.
After an hour of editing the finished product was ready for the world it was played in all the local pubs and on the local music station and was a hit then after a couple of weeks Allen said something,
"I've also rite a song, well not a song more music then singing"
"Let's have a look",
The band looked it over, just then Sarah said
"I will sit this one out"
After a lot of noise and complaints from the other houses there 2nd hit went out then the biggest thing every to happen.
Then he came someone from EMI music wanted to talk to the band and after a long talk they singed a contract and in a couple of weeks TOXIC SUSAGE was lunched it was big after writing a couple of more songs, they were rolling in the big money now, but they didn't quit there day jobs just in case it went tits up.
The songs where more or less based on food or no voices just music and one track even had a guitar solo and then a drum solo.
Then after a couple of mouths of booze and girls and drugs the bassist mike died aged only 21 he died of a drug overdose that was the end of TOXIC SUSAGE.
Two weeks after the death of mike and at the funeral of him in the ceremony David and mike's ex girl pippin said some words David was first to go
"Mike now you are dead, we are not going to go on with TOXIC SUSAGE there is no point no one could replace you, you thought me how to play the guitar and as a tribute I will now sing the tribute song me and the band wrote, it was mant for our brake-up but you died too soon thank you and good bye".
Pippin spoke
"mike why did you die it just your too young and, and" she cried and left the stage, the parents of mike spoke and then it was on to the tribute the band played and said good bye too there best friend.
After a year when shorting though some old stuff David found a box with all the band stuff including a singed copy of mike David cried and thought of mike and thought how they never got to perform live on stage but now times have changed after mike died Allen moved on to somewhere else and went with another ban.
The guy from EMI said to David
"If you like to continue without the band call this number"
He said David was a good guitarist and he didn't need them,
But David could never go behind the back of the band so David ripped up the phone number and tossed it aside in to the bin now David was ready to face the future.
For you see David knew mike never was going to reach adult hood, seeing as mike smoked like a dragon and he drank like it was going to be his last in the pub he had ten pints of drink, but at lest he is at rest and the guitar of mike's, well that went into the museum of music, every so off turn David plays the guitar and thinks of mike every time he plays, but he could never go back into a band seeing as the guitar he found in the skip was now dead at the funeral of mike the guitar broke when David was doing the final part.
Every year David, Sarah, and Allen go to the grave of mike and lay down some flowers with the same note:
"Rest you head now my friend for the load holds thy soul and I hope you like the angels".