Today was busy... actually a shit load happend and to give you the whole story straight i'm not going to tell it now... that's going to have to wait until tomorrow, but what i will tell you is that i moved into my dorm. took up every last inch of space with music gear BEFORE i even brought in my clothes (yaknow, those things that are actually a necessity to living) right. um then spent a lot of time EQing guitars for the album. in four hours i think i found one. good enough. so to give you guys something to read here is the latest thing i've written. it was born just a few hours ago and really isn't done yet, but it's pretty fucking close. it was just one of those where the words came faster than the hand wrote and then i ended up forgetting lines and AHH not good.... we all know how that goes (no pun intended, it comes just as easily as it goes!) so here it is.

it's untitled but i'm thinking it will either be called "Not my girl" or "She's my girl". once again input would be nice. oh and i apologize to those of you who hate 'stupid' girl songs... fuck off! i've been listening to reel big fish (album:cheer up) and their songs: ban the tube top, where have you been, suckers, what friends are for. so the 'anti-love', 'i can't get the girl' theme is kinda stuck in my head.
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She’s a girl who never fools around.
She never walks around.
Never plays around,
With guys like me.

She’s always been too cool.
She’s the one all the guys like at school
She’s a girl who’s straight and will never break away for me
And with all the lyrics that I write nothing will ever make her day.

Why can’t I get the girl that I want?
Why is it that the best girls never like me?
Why can’t I get the girl, the girl who has eyes
That jump right over me?

Why can’t I get the girl that I want?
Why is it that the best girls never like me?
Why can’t I get the girl, the girl who has eyes
That jump right over me?

I’ll make her eyes twinkle.
I’ll wet her lips.
I’ll make her knees,
Go weak.
I’ll make her eyes twinkle.
I’ll wet her lips.
I’ll make her knees,
Go weak.

[Bridge]

She’s a girl who never fools around.
She never walks around.
Never plays around,
With guys like me.

She’s always been too cool.
She’s the one all the guys like at school
She’s a girl who’s straight and will never break away for me
And with all the lyrics that I write nothing will ever make her day.

Why can’t I get the girl that I want?
Why is it that the best girls never like me?
Why can’t I get the girl, the girl who has eyes
That jump right over me?

Why can’t I get the girl that I want?
Why is it that the best girls never like me?
Why can’t I get the girl, the girl who has eyes
That jump right over me?
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[tech that is copywrite now that i have posted it so even though i havn't actually finished it and thus have not gone through the paperwork...... you get the point]

yup so that is the latest. oh and ideas of new ways of finding 'clean' electric guitar sounds like ska would be helpful!

william------->

In my last post I had a question about girls in bands... what do you all think about it???

So tomorrow the inevitable happens, I go back to school. YAY! actaully being in college has it''s upsides like being able to see all your friends that dont live near you, seeing girls who you otherwise don't get to spend time with ( wink ), getting to jam with musicians who don't live in town... all that great stuff. not to mention the fact tthat living away from home is an adventure in itself. one i particularly enjoy!

Today was pretty good, in retrospect I got a lot done... always a good thing. I packed (blah, the boring stuff), did laundry, packed up a shit load of musical gear like a couple of condensor mics a mixer and midi external interfaces so that I can record on my computer when i'm at school. actually I've found that recording things makes writing so much easier and it's a good way to tell if something sounds good when you really arn't sure to the p[ooint where you don't want to risk making a fool of yourself asking somebody! lol. oh well... we're all human.

so question... what do you all think about girls in bands? a friend of mine pointed out a few good thoughts about how most "bands" don't include girls unless they are all girls (we're talking the rock/pop/alternative genre here... not a chamber orchestra or such) or unless the girl is the centerpiece. now my producer justin got really mad at me for this very reason saything that "will, you are a drummer by nature and a writer by heart. this is why we took you off drums and have you singing and playing guitar, because YOU write the music." so he became upset because he believes a girl in the band would eventually become the centerpiece and allthough he and i don't really care as long as the music is heard and is good he thinks that spliting an audiences view of a band likethat could be detrimental to selling the band. this made me think, something i do way to often and never seem to find the right answers. so what do you all think? could you imagine a band with a female drummer and not be able to recall the band from memory just from thinking "oh it's the band with the female drummer". what about a band that has two lead singers though one of them also plays guitar and happens to be a guy and the other happens to be a girl. first of all the fact that one plays an instrament and the otehr doesn't already give the audience a clear interpretation of who is the lead singer even if both sing the same amount of lines. hmmm yaknow what i think about all of this. it's bullshit! i'd still like your opinions ASAP but i'll give mine when i hear the first playback.

ok you all, time to sleep.

William--->

yaknow what i just realized??? that it's friday the 13th! ha.... totally missed that!

will

Today was one of those days where the more really good things happened to me the more doubt I aquired about other things. Basically I'm talking about the recording, it just doesn't sound the way I want it to be and I think I'm going to call it off. Right now I'm in a mood where the direction the band should head in might be better playing shows, not wasting it's time recording stuff that doesn't sound good or even like what we sound like during practice.

So the good news is that I was at Sam Ash today and hopefully we're going to get a sponsorship from them! Cool right?! This would mean that they would pay for all of our frequently broken equiptment, such as strings, mic stands (don't ask), guitar pedals (water bottles/dumb-ass people who leave things outside when it rains), cables, pics, etc. did i mention free strings?! So this would be good, on the other hand we have to play 4 shows a month and right now with the album that's an issue since we're limiting our public appearences so that we have time to work. Oh well, this is what I meant by a great thing that just created some doubt in my mind that recording is the way to go right now.

Ok I need sleep so I'll talk to you all later!

William---->

For those of you who don't know, West Coast Holiday originated as a band that was going to play 8 songs, once, and once show. That was supposed to the the beginning, middle and end of the bands life. Today, two years later the band is still alive though not without change. In fact the band really has only had one true member, myself, but now even the tradition of a new band behind me in ever city will change. What I'm hoping will happen is that we will settle into a new grove and find some musicians that are in it for the haul and right now is an exciting time because a couple of days ago we found a potential female singer who at this moment only knows that we want her for a song on the album (very true to us... steal someone away for a one song deal) but this Sunday if she gives a good first impression we may pop the question right then and there. "Would you like a spot in the band?" This of course by itself would be a change, since never has there ever been a girl in West Coast Holiday and since only one song was ever written with a female vocal part in mind (the one she's been asked to help out on).

Now to address the topic of this post. ANOTHER change, and even ANOTHER girl I might add has actually been asked to become the permanent drummer for West Coast Holiday. she however would like to wait a bit before giving the thumbs up due to her school schedule but has said she's almost certain she'll be able to do it. I can't say I blame her, we're friends from high school and both being freshman in college I know what she's going through! So after a three hour converstation we left it at I'm going to call her Sunday night to tell her how the (secret) audition went and then in about two weeks when she gets settled into school she and I will talk again. (although she has a 3.5 GPA so I don't really know what she's worried about!)

Once everything gets settled down, possibly Sunday night or so I'll write out the potential impact of these two on the band (both of which I see as being good). Although I will mention the fact that if this drummer works out it will give us the chance to switch some stuff around from song to song because she can play the drums, guitar, piano, vocals and violin and since I can play the guitar, drums, bass, vocals and some other wacky shit she and I can switch it up at any point so that we can emphasize our strengths (for example I was taught to play jazz on drums, and she was taught to play punk).

ok it is time for me to get some sleep!

William----->

p.s. don't you all love how sometimes i use caps in my writing and other times i dont? lol i just noticed i do that sometimes!

Ok so today is a perfect example of what happens when people get way too excited about something and then it crumbles out from underneath you. before i explain, two things: first of all we did it to ourselves and secondly this is just how i am... i WAY over analyze. HA.

so today was the first day of actually recording tracks that will be on the album. the plan was to put dowwn the acoustic songs on the album (basically anything that doesn't involve a drum kit) and then to go over some of the other stuff just to pprepare. so i arrive and justin and i go upstairs to watch The Making of Born to Run which is just tradition for us to watch before actually starting an album and then justin starts to bug me about each song on the damn thing. well we start to argue about what songs will be acoustic even though we had previously decided so to settle it all we went through all 16 songs that have POTENTIAL to be on the album... this is good, right?! i mean it's good to be warmed up and all but after a couple hours of practice my voice has just gone from bad to scrap. so we finally put down the rythem guitar tracks that need to be done and i thought that maybe my voice would heal before i did those takes. NOPE! you all can guess what happpened next.

4 full vocal tracks and 27 takes later we arrive at what seems to be our ffinal version, so says justin. i'm still not pleased. though as i stated earlier i'm never pleased with this stuff. our only thought which we both agree on is that we will wait a week while he edits and mixes it (bounces it down) and then ill listen to it. maybe we'll wait until the entire album is done and then i'll listen to it! well in the mean time without letting anyone know i'm secretly going to re-record all of the acoustic stuff on garageband and some of my condenser mics in my dorm room (hehe). if it's better, it's better, if it's not, it's no. i guess we'll find out.

so what i;ve learned from this...??!! um i learned to never let anyone push you around and from here on in we're just going to go by schedule in terms of recording. also i've learned i need to be better prepared. for example it's hard for me to drink wanter and sing or eat and sing but if i don't have liquid in my body then my throat becomes dry. soooo two things work. drink water (though not much)and (A) brush your teeth which soomehow helps, or (B) eat swiss miss the coca powder thing. actually this helps because it coats the back of your throat and your vocal cords but not like a sause or water. maybe it's just me, or some type of placibo effect, but maybe there is some logic there and if you sing it could be worth trying out!

ok i move into my dorm sunday so i've got some packing to do!!! bye all.

-William-

well sort of... to many of your dismay i have not been replaced but will rather be accompanied by a female singer (who will remain unnamed due to legal instruction, for now) in one of the songs on the album. actually until today this song was one of my least favorites but during my little tour of southern california i got some really great responses to the lyrics of this one song from gen and the fans out there... basically justin and i knew it was due for a musical re-write. so now after hours of tinkering with it we have come to the conclusion that it needs a female voice, partly because half of it was written for a female (i just happened to be singing both parts at shows, yeah funny, laugh iit up!), and partly because the we needed another tone in the overall mix of the album. so far everything is going really well and with the re-write basically done that's one more song on the album that i feel really rocks (no songs will be put on the album unless "I" think they really rock, and likewise for everyone else who is helping with this album). that's what makes it so great is that right now West Coast Holiday really isn't a full band since everyone has gone back to school (and left for the band for good) and after the album comes out we'll be looking for a drummer and a bassist. For now though since everyone who is working on the album has a final vote and has seen the band and my writing grow since the beginning it means that the overall product should be AWSOME!!! dont you think?! well maybe, maybe not. ok back to writing!!! lol what a life!

i'll try to post tomorrow if i get out of the studio before i pass out...

will

WOW, I must say this is awsome! tonight, well today West Coast Holiday launched it's new website: www.westcoastholiday.bravehost.com and the feeling was great. it only makes me wonder how good it's going to feel when the album is finally done. which by the way we are recording the acoustic tracks on wednesday. I know, i know, we were supposed to have done that two and a half weeks ago but we all know i'm a perfectionist and that can just get in the way of things sometimes. oh well.

so now that we've launched the site we hope the internet will be able to help put our music out there. if only we could figure out how to put the music ON the site! (if you know please do tell!!!) although to be honest the only thing we have recorded at this moment is a bunch of acoustic stuff so i'm not too thrilled with putting that up.

it's now been almost two hours that the site has been up (we did have parts of it up the past couple of days but most of it didn't work) and we already have like 25 hits... given that the first like 6 were the band trying to see if anyone had visited yet! lol, oh well. we stopped and now it's a little more legit.

again for anyone who's been reading we're having issues with our store so don't try to buy anything! i mean hey if you want to spend your money on something that isn't there that's perfectly fine but i wouldn't reccomend it.

ok so the stuff you all like to read about... hmmmm i'm NOT going to write about my trip to san diego, it was good, i already mentioned as much as is coming. on the other hand i will say that there is this one girl who has really caught my eye. actually a couple weeks back i wrote a song about her entitled I've failed the Night. it's lyrics are posted on the site but because i cant separate lines on the site i'll post them again here. basically this girl just kind of got a hold of me, yaknow? she's different than others i've liked/dated and though she is my taste because she's an athlete and fits the physical profile of any girl i've liked before... she's different, she isn't like the rest. first of all she has morals... HA-that's HUGE for any girl i've dated! when i talk to her she seems to make me her entire world like there is no one else but what gets to me (actually it really pisses me off) is that when we're not face to face she kind of blows me off. what's with that?! like on IM's she'll just sign offwithout saying goodbye, or she won't respond to a text message and then all of a sudden she'll become interested and text back two days later but when i respond whoops... somehow it takes her 48 hours again! the funny thing is that she reminds me of gen, the only difference is that she has edge, she's ready to go out there and have fun but when it comes to the basics like abstinance shes still grounded. i mean they're kind or opposites. yet the same. i know that nothing i just wrote makes sense so here are the words to the song!

I've failed the Night
by West Coast Holiday


You can’t make it, tonight.
I try to redirect you, you apologize.
You still won’t meet me there,
And I’ve failed the night.

I fail to recover; I try to make this better,
The simple truth that I’ve fallen for you.
It’s out in the open, and it’s only burden…
Is you.

How do I fix this little thing that I’ve,
Lost to you, I‘ve lost to you my eye.

A girl so utterly invincable, so utterly stubborn to know,
What’s right for her,
What’s right for you,
To see right through, the things I do.

To play me off like a fool.
To play me off like a fool.

I fail to recover; I try to make this better,
The simple truth that I’ve fallen for you.
It’s out in the open, and it’s only burden…
Is you.

I fail to recover; I try to make this better,
The simple truth that I’ve fallen for you.
It’s out in the open, and it’s only burden…
Is you.

Is you.

Is you.

Is you.
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if i wasn't so tired i'd give you all the chords but basically it's an acoustic song and it's not going any further than that. actually that is a major hint (if you want to know what's on the album!)

the reason i brought up this girl is becausee tonight she just randomly wanted to know about the site and seemed to really take interest. not a bad thing, right?! well i thought it was good, but she does have a boyfriend who she has been on and off with so that doesn't help too much. though i've been told he is a jerk to her so if that is the case i don't feel bad.

alright kids, this show is drawing to a close. goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite!

will weaver jr.

www.westcoastholiday.bravehost.com

Hey guys ok so here's the deal. today we added a new store so that you all can go buy our shirts/pins/buttons/whatever you'd like! unfortunatly our product pictures have yet to be uploaded to the site so you can't purchase anything yet :( right right (yaknow who has the biggest frown? our manager!). no worries you'll be able to give your money to our manager soon enough and i'll do my best to make sure the prices are the best we can give you! (today we were discussing something like 15 bucks for a sweatshirt, how awsome is that!!!) Check out the bands official store for T-shirts and more!

on another topic we now have a Top 100 Fans list. for now we've set it up to be a free for all so just check out our site (www.westcoastholiday.bravehost.com) click on "top 100 fans" and put a marker down on the map to secure your spot! first come first served rocks!

thanks for everything guys,
-will