He knew that he was spreading so much negativity with this topic but he apparently just couldn’t stop. He already spent too much time venting to his family and friends about his stupid flatmate. Tears pricked in his eyes which frustrated him even more. He sunk down onto the old sofa and buried his face in his hands. There were empty plates covering the coffee table, clothes lying in front of Aiden’s room in the hallway and mouldy containers sitting on the kitchen table. That being said didn’t smaller the shock and the disappointment that flowed through Harry’s body as soon as he had opened the door and seen all the empty beer bottles scattered all over the place. He knew that he would come back to a messy flat.
He had fucked off to his family on Christmas Eve, just a few days after Harry himself had left the flat to spent Christmas and New Year’s with his family in Cheshire. It wasn’t a problem that he was loudly talking to himself now. But now all that it represented was another stressful part of his day, when Harry once again had to discover what kind of damage Aiden produced while Harry was gone. He was just his flatmate who tried to have a nice and cozy flat where he could relax after another excruciating day at uni or work. He wasn’t Aiden’s mother, for fuck’s sake. He was so done with playing the part of the bad cop. Or to clean up the food leftovers that Aiden managed to spread all over the kitchen, the hallway and the tiny living room they shared.
#Clean slate band windows#
Or to open the windows in the kitchen when they were fogged up from steam. He was just so sick and tired of constantly having to remind Aiden to turn off the stove when he was done cooking. With stomping feet and unintelligible words grumbled under his breath he stormed through his flat. As a bass player, you hold down that groove and other instruments blend in.Harry has had enough. “In a 10-piece band, you don”t have much room to do a lot of theatrics otherwise it gets muddy. “I can learn how they are great listeners and how they can add to and not district from the rest of the band,” he said.
This group dynamics is more important than any one individual.”Įven with decades of experience, Noriega said he can learn watching other established bass players. “The girls are younger and some of the players are younger, so they want to bring in material that won”t fit the genre,” he saidĮven a top-notch musician won”t make the Clean Slate cut if the personality doesn”t blend well, Noriega said, adding that if a musician is as good at drinking alcohol as playing, “they”re usually not staying with us very long. There are disagreements, especially with different age ranges in the big band, Noriega said. Personalities sometimes being personalities, “people get on each other”s nerves and I have to play referee,” Noriega said. “We don”t waste a lot of time on a song if I don”t like it,” Noriega said, tipping his cap to the way Emilio Castillo keeps Tower of Power afloat. Noriega laughed that when Clean Slate began, it was a democracy. Ones that do fit and come together quickly, you”ll know when you have a winner,” he said. We like when people turn and say, ”That sounds like Earth Wind and Fire or Rick James or The Commodores.””Ĭlean Slate rehearses twice a month and if the group can”t nail a tune, it”s set aside, Noriega said. There are bands that try and improvise and make them their own. “It”s what people want to hear,” he said. Noriega said Clean Slate tries to nail each classic tune as it was played by the original artists. “It”s not the most lucrative gig we do in a year, but I”d say it”s the most rewarding one. Every time we go, it”s just a dance party from beginning to end,” he said. Though Creekwalk may not be the highest paid gig on the planet, Noriega said the family-friendly environment makes up for it.
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