Guest post! The No Band, Band

My oldest daughter, who I rarely allow on the internet (and never unsupervised), has asked to guest post on my blog, which she often hears about over dinner at our house.

Here's her first attempt- not too bad for a nine year old who's never read a blog in her life....

No band, band

Hi,
I play guitar “in a band.”
We started the band at the beginning of last year, and so far we’ve made a week’s progress, it’s SO embarrassing.

My band has five problems:

1) Organizing
The problem is no ones bothering to set up meetings. I’ve tried to set up meetings but everyone’s been so busy with stuff we haven’t been able to schedule anything. Too bad I don’t know what the “stuff” is because they all seem to be doing it together. I feel rejected.

2) Location
I want to have a band, and I want it to be at my house because my parents are very musical and they can help. My mom says I should put it in the basement but I really don’t like our basement because it is crawling with everything. There was a giant spider down there and once there was a mouse and it FLOODS! I can’t put it in my room, so where am I supposed to put it? I don’t think we’ll fit in the linen closet!

3) Who’s in who’s out
I’m not sure at the moment who is even in the band. Everybody’s inviting people to come and join. I don’t want to let just anybody in because maybe we’ll end up with twenty people with no musical ability at all! Even though everyone’s inviting people I don’t think I invited anyone since I was invited.

4) The Name
See it’s very hard to have a band that can’t even decide its own name. I know what I want to name the band but I haven’t got a second to talk to the band about it, because everyone is always busy “doing stuff” as I’ve already told you.

5) Instruments
So far I think we have a guitarist, that’s me, 2 accordion people (one that I don’t like) I frankly don’t even like accordion but there some are that do, a piano player, and I suppose everyone is singing. Also some people don’t even have their instruments yet they say that are “getting them” for their birthdays. Yeah right.

So, I have lots of friends, if I didn’t have any friends I wouldn’t have been invited into this band in the first place. I’m writing songs while I wait for the band to get its act together. So I wait and wait and wait. Maybe when school starts again things will come together and we’ll give a hurrah for our second year of band that’s only made one week’s progress.