The band bio (a.k.a. About Us)

Myspace is really great for some things. And not just for shopping for girls who find that this is an ideal forum for posting those cleavage and underwear shots of themselves that they've had lying around, just waiting for the right venue to show them off.

It really is a great venue for bands. In fact, it really has supplanted to some extent the need for bands to create and maintain (and pay for) their own website. Especially on a local level. A Myspace band page has all the perks of a regular band page. You can see the band, read about the band, hear the band, find out where the band is playing. And more importantly, a Myspace band page has the ability to easily reach a larger number of people.

As such, I've gone and created an account for the new band. At this point we're going by the name Pawnshop Diamonds. The first pleasant surprise is that there are no other Pawnshop Diamonds listed on Myspace. We're the first, and currently the only. (I've also grabbed a gmail address under that name as well.) The site isn't available yet as it's still being created, but once it is we will start befriending people. But we still need pictures. We still need tunes for it. (Hopefully, we'll be going in to record a 4 song demo next month; until then, I'm hoping the other band members would be cool with us using the already recorded acoustic demos that me and Matt recorded. I have to ask them about that.) And we still need our "About Us" section. This is essentially a short band bio, describing us.

Now, this we should already have. I set myself the task of writing it last week. And then have since drawn a complete blank, not getting down word one. For me, this is one of the hardest things to do. I had the same problem when I was in All Eyes On, to the point that we eventually had a friend of the band write it for us.

For me, I want the bio to be cool, but not cheesy, and that's a hard line to straddle. A certain amount of cliche is unavoidable, but how to make it not sound cliche? How to stay away from certain terms that rock bands seem to think sound cool, but invariably end up sounding silly? But at the same time, how to not be totally bland about it? I've written (or attempted to) plenty of different things, in plenty of different styles, but this type of thing always flumoxes me. So much so that I'm writing a blog about writing a bio than actually trying to write a bio right now.

Actually, I'm hoping that this could help jar something loose, because I'd really like to get this damn bio done. And once I do? "Coming soon to a Myspace page near you..."