Manchester Updates!
May 25, 2002 Jamie and Fred played for the first time as "The Manchester Project." The Idea was spawned when Fred came home for the summer from college and Jamie wanted to jam. They realized what they could have and quickly played a small set to a private audience to market interest. The name "The Manchester Project" was originally one of the possible names for a former band called MadCap F/X, MadCap has since broken up but most of the member of the Project played in MadCap, so The Manchester Project was therefore chosen.
May 31, 2002 J-Cool was added to the line-up as drummer making The Project consist of 3/4 of MadCap, the fourth member having been voted out. J-Cool kicks a cool beat and The Project is glad to have him.
June 15, 2002 Songs "Ghost" and "Second Chance" are finished up and the song temporarily called "Sara's Song(Miss You) is close to completion.
June 30/July 1, 2002 The guys had a night of jamming and songwriting... but ended up eating candy, watching movies, and gawking at pictures of Natalie Portman. You might have called our night a pathetic waste of time (with all the gawking and thus and such) but... um... YOUR MOM... that's right! Eat it...
July 3, 2002 Well all is well with the world... Jamie has a girlfriend now! Tonite he asked out Erin Love and she said yes. The night was spent at the movies and Steak n' Shake with Fred and his girl Sara.
July 20, 2002 Jamie and J-Cool have made it back from Mexico in one piece, but not necessarily in good health. J-Cool got home with a bad head cold and Jamie was just love sick for his girl... but they've all turned out alright! The band had a great jam session the other night where they played all their regular songs plus "When I Come Around" by Green Day (an old favorite of the Project's) and "Letters to God" by Box Car Racer, they actually played it twice by request from Sara.
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Song Meanings
SECOND CHANCE
Jamie - Well this is one could be for a lot of things or people. I think everyone feels these words at some point in life and I was just lucky to be able to write them out. I think mostly I wrote it for this guy Taylor who really hurt me about a year ago. He was like my best friend and he totally ditched on me, took my girlfriend, and changed who he was. I don't know why I say "I'm sorry" in the song, because I never did anything to him, I just feel sorry for the way things turned out I guess. But whatever...
GHOST
Jamie - Wow this song was really the first one that we wrote as a band, like when I was a Freshman! I really liked this girl at school and we were friends and stuff, but because she didn't see me as boyfriend potential (for lack of a better word) I felt like a ghost. I actually wrote these lyrics in class one day at school, it was the first poem/lyric I ever wrote... so its special to me.
Fred - Jamie brought me the lyrics to "Ghost", and I saw the potentioal, even though we had only begun to play music together. There was a very simple structure to the song, so I decided to add a lyrical bridge. I was also the one who came up with the music. Not the most inventive chord progression, to be sure, but I think it (especially the Am chord) fits the song very well. In general we were "bolth" very pleased with this early effort.
SARA'S SONG
(note from Jamie: this is Fred's song, all I did was the name of it 'cuz he couldn't think of anything)
Fred - I wrote this song while I was away at college, and I was really feeling strained because of the distance and all that. When you see someone every two or three days, you get used to having them around. But when you're over nine hours away from each other, and you only get to talk to that person on the phone once a week, and you only see them 3 times in 4 months, it gets tough. Songwriting is therapy for me, and this was the result. (With apologies to Lifehouse for stealing a chord progression.) I really like the sound of it, because all the open strings ring throughout the chord changes.
WHAT WENT WRONG? (Blink-182 Cover)
Jamie - Well this song was written by Tom DeLonge of Blink and its most likely my favorite Blink song. Its an acoustic song and the first time I heard I was just like wow. Its an amazing song just lyrically because it captures the pain of someone when you get dumped by your girlfriend I guess. I was going through everything written in this song at the time and it really just was a song to help me get over things. So I decided we should play it at our shows too, its a great song.
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