Wolf-Hybrid

Let me start by saying I don't give a damn about which clothe store I, or anyone else shops at. And I seriously don't like people that do.

Anyways I typically avoid shopping at Hot Topic. While they do occasionally have some cool Slayer or video game shirts I like, most of what they sell I'm not into. I watched Invader Zim when I was around ten, and moved on. Never cared much for anime and I certainly don't care for most of the mainstream music, including most of the metal.

A number of shirts were given to me for Christmas and none of them fit. Not a problem; just a matter of some exchanging. Unfortunately, one of those shirts came from Hot Topic. Shouldn't be an issue right? I just have to put up with some shitty music for five minutes while swap out the shirts. This wasn't the case. Either Hot Topic constantly runs out of Mediums, or no one buys enough to justify stocking them. In my case I couldn't find a Medium for the Pantara shirt I got. So I'll just pick another shirt right?

Almost every cool shirt I found came in either Small, Extra Small, Large, Extra Large, and 2X "Jesus Christ You're Huge" Large. What really pissed me off is that almost every cool shirt I found that came in Medium was "Slim Fit". What the fuck? I'm not that small plus I have a handgun to conceal. Give me some room to breath! An entire pile of Black Dahlia Murder shirts were like that, plus almost every single Lamb of God shirt was like that. Finally I found a Lamb of God shirt that came in plain old Medium, but it was in plain black and white with a bunch of skulls on it. Too many shirts shirts of mine have skulls.

After a half hour a clerk tells me most of the new shipments of shirts are "Slim Fit" and she didn't know why. She was pretty damn nice and offered to get up on the ladder and check to see the one Slayer shirt up on display was a Medium. I took her up on that offer. It was a small. Goddamnit! She asked if I was interested in anything else while she was up there and I eyed up this cool shirt with these goat-wolf looking things on them. Turns out it was a Medium! But it was a band called Chelsea Grin which I've never listened to.

What pissed me off the most was that there was an entire pile of Doors shirts that were all Medium. I'm not into the Doors, not even a little. I almost walked out with this System of a Down shirt I found hidden under a pile of Slim Fit Lamb of God shirts, but I wouldn't wear that shirt for various reasons. With so much time wasted I just grabbed this plain Tool shirt I saw earlier and got the hell out. I'm not thrilled about it, but it fits and Tool is a pretty damn good band.

Why the hell did I walk into Hot Topic excited to pick out an Arsis or Destruction shirt? Or Death? I really wanted a Death shirt since I don't have one yet. It's all pop culture stuff I'm not even remotely into. Last thing I bought from there was this sick Mortal Kombat shirt and that was only because I saw it in the window on the way to GameStop. Never again am I putting up with that crap. I'm sticking with the internet for my band tees.

I had a talk today with the guitarist of Wolf-Hybrid (we never officially broke up). He shares the same thoughts as me about how our band is still technically together, and he wanted to start playing again. Kind of crazy since I just relaunched this site yesterday and talked about how I would jump at the opportunity of playing in another band on the About Me page. No, he didn't read that on the website, in fact he was surprised that I took the old site down. I actually didn't mean to delete it; I didn't even realize it until last night! Of course I would have deleted it if it was still up. Maybe I deleted it intentionally and forgot. Not the first time I've done something like that.

Anyways it's got my thoughts racing again. We're in our 20s now and long done high school. I started thinking that maybe things would be better since we're older and more mature, but then I realized we had guys in the band that ranged from 15 to 27. Age never made a damned difference in maturity or reliability (learned that through failed auditions). We may have matured, but that doesn't mean things are going to get easier with finding good musicians. Maybe I'm wrong; maybe the fact that we're in our 20s will make us look better in the eyes more serious musicians. Not only do we have the gear and rehearsal space, we also have cars which is something we lacked in high school (ok our drummer had a car, but he's just one of three). I can't help but feel that we seem like better people to team up with.

We lack a great asset we had that helped us get some good musicians for a while, our awesome drummer. I'm sure it'd stroke his ego if he ever read this but the fact of the matter is we was a pretty kick ass drummer and pretty damn reliable. Unfortunately I haven't played with him in over a year so I wouldn't even know if he still has it. Pretty much he's out of the picture if we wanted to start anything back up. The drummer and I started a thrash project last winter with another guitarist but it ended up dying after a few months. Part of the reason it died was because our drummer left due to work. As the guitarist put it finding another drummer like him wouldn't happen anytime soon. I don't know about that, but I lost touch with the guitarist a few months later and I consider the project buried.

Back to present time WF's guitarist brought up the point that finding another bassist (something we struggled with big time over the years) would continue to be a problem. He knows I'm not one for playing metal bass, but I still pick up the ol' six string every now and then. I've even considered looking for a local death metal band to join since they're always looking for bassists. But honestly I would want to do vocals again if I was getting back into a band. I've been looking for an excuse to take voice lessons again. I don't think finding a bassist would be hard, it's finding a that can play the way we want that's hard. We had an amazing funk bassist that tried joining once in '08 and again at the end of '09. The guy was extremely unreliable, but the fact of the matter is that he wasn't the first talented bassist we've come across. They're out there.

Truth is I just really fucking miss it. I'm constantly thinking up music and lyrics in my head and it just frustrates the hell out of me that I never write the stuff down anymore. The frustrations of being in a band are still fresh in my head though. To this day it still haunts me that Wolf-Hybrid failed to make the two shows we put on. I still had a blast with the other bands that came, but I never got over the fact that we weren't on the fucking stage. It was always someone at the last minute deciding that they couldn't handle the responsibility of being in a band. I don't have resentment about it, but it still hurts.

I still think there's hope. It'd be pretty funny after finally taking it down (intentionally) that the Wolf-Hybrid band website suddenly becomes alive with new music and show information. I never stop fantasizing about playing a show. Maybe it's time I knuckle down and make it happen. Just one show would make it all worth it. I wouldn't even give a damn if no one showed up. The fact that we were playing together is all I need.

Welcome to my new personal music blog! This site use to be the homepage of my old band Wolf-Hybrid, but since we've been inactive for a few years now and my main blog is starting to become a video game site I've decided to make this a more personal site. I plan to primarily write about heavy metal music, but there's other stuff I'm into as well.

I also at some point plan to bring all of the music content from foxfav.com over to here. This site could become something cool, or just a simple side project. I don't know. Guess we'll wait and see!