Music Memory

I started my first band Handsome Geoffery with my friends Janna and Aidee when I was about 15. I remember the first time we ever played through an entire song with some degree of in-time-ness and in-tune-ness.

We started our band mostly because we wanted to hold instruments and make noise with them. Unfortunately we were all drummers, but I knew parts of a few Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers songs on guitar so I defaulted to that, and Janna picked up the bass. We had no idea what we were doing. It was great.

We tried playing a few covers but because I didn’t know any whole songs we could never get through one and they sounded pretty bad. Then one day I wrote my first song “I Sort of Love You”. It was a song that made fun of love songs because I was young and cynical with a cutting teenage wit. I played it to the girls, red-faced and embarrassed, but they loved it so I showed Janna where the fingers go on the bass (didn’t know what the chords I was playing were), Aidee tapped along on the drums and sang a few harmonies, and we realized the beauty of writing your own songs- there are no mistakes! It’s yours so you can do whatever you want and say it’s supposed to be that way!

When we got to the end we were buzzing the hell out that we had our first song and had played it, according to our 15-year-old ears, perfectly. Since then I haven’t stopped writing songs and trying to replicate that feeling which, to this day, is one of the best feelings I’ve ever had in my life.

By Anna Codington
http://www.annacoddington.com

Check out Anna in action in Fly My Pretties this December see www.loop.co.nz for details.

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