Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"

Hahahahaaaaa,that s cool.And bekieve me this is very often so.Not one song ready but future planes and so things and talking talking but never playing.

Ok i have here one story about one of my first bands.This time i remember very often why it was so complete crazy.
I have play guitar,hard rock music was my thing.
The Keyboard player liked the most Pop music and new wave.
Now comes the best................................
The vocalist a woman........no a girl was a fan of musicals.
The drummer played and played all the time smilling but only two rythms.
So and the question was what will we do.Hahaahaaa,a mix between all.But on all our meetings it was the same.I had my big and loud amp and have play my hard rock guitar,the drummer smiled all the time and plays his two rythms,the keyboarder was not loud enough and so i know not excactly but he had play some chords too and the vocalist had also not that big amp and speakers but sometimes i have hear something,
but don t ask me what :-)
After playing we had then all the time a discuse what we want do.And i will never forget the vocalist say:I want something as a song so like it was written from ANDREW LOYD WEBBER musicals.Self today after 25-26 years i roll down the floor by laughing.

This had not llong work so.The drummer and me w have play,wrong,out of time and out of tune for some month but the other two..........no chance..........not loud enough......................but there big planes and all that i want never forget.Andrew loyd webber music makes me still smile :-)

Can someone show me please how i can tune my guitar right ? OH after this i must write a musical............something like cats............oooh and why is the name of my first string E why not Peter or Paul.............heeeeee notation...........what is this...........i need no notation .........i have a distortion pedal........................

OH a Little P.S.........
After all this time i have learn now why the strings have this names..........i am not silly
E-stands for ERNEST
A-stands for ALBERT
G-stands for GUIDO
B/H- stands for BERT -HELMUT........a double name why the name givers come from diferent parts of the world and so in one part they say BERT and in another Part HELMUT.Complicated :-)
E-The last string this is the little EVE

So you see when people want learn they can learn self when it is not easy at the beginn.After some time everybody gets real good and an EXPERT !

I have been in da biz for awhile now and can tell you that beginner band mistake is a direct hit on truth. However, very, very, close to mistake #1 is #1a. No matter how good homies, buds, peeps, hangers, etc.. ya'll think you are - somebody has to be in charge. If you try to do everything by popular vote or "group" decision, you'll go nowhere and won't be able to figure out how you got there so d** fast!!!!!!!!!
Just like sports, blah,blah,blah no matter how big a star the quarterback or pointguard is, you gotta do what the coach decides is best for the team.