Fun fact ! During my very brief (though not brief enough) stint of living in Montreal with my two highly talented friends Tanya & Jon, we had a band ! Tanya and I both played guitar and wrote the songs, each of us bringing our own solo stuff to the trio which then got sort of expanded. Jon was bass master and back up vocals, and yes, he made sweet, fretless love to that bass.
What did we call ourselves, you ask?
"Share!"
Jon came up with the name, and we were hoping that were we to "make it" in some capacity the OTHER musician named "Cher" would maybe sue us ! You just can't buy press like that !
Neither ended up happening, but what did happen was we found us a drummer on craigslist (a wonderful lady goes by the name Charlotte Cornfield who has since gone on to be very successful with her own songs !) we played a few shows, drank a few beers, had some laughs, and like so many before us, dis-banded.
Since coming across a recording of one of our early rehearsals, I've been thinking a lot about those days...
Tanya's song are really something else. If you haven't had the pleasure, I recommend you hop on over to her MySpace and have it now. In hind sight I wish we had only played her songs and none of mine. Her's were beautiful and mine were jokey - which is something I've come to abhor, not only in my own songs, but others' as well. But luckily, like some strange act in a sordid sexual history, I can now look back and proudly say "I don't do that anymore..."
Well I could go on and on, but I think I'll save it for Group. If you are interested to hear what Share! was all about, I've posted the basement recording of that early rehearsal.
(Judge only as harshly as I have judged you all these years...)
