I'm in a band with my old friend in school days. It's called THE B-SIDE BAND. Also our band is an amateur band, but we are proud of the songs and groove. (All songs are original)
I used to play a drums in a band founded with friend. I was not playing the drum after I took a job. However the alumni association after an interval of 18 years brought me back to the drummer. Of course, my drums-playing prowess was like a beginner.
We stepped up efforts in spare moments from our work for about 3 years. As a result, we could make 3 times live performance in last year. And this year, we tried audition of jazz festival. At last, we passed the audition!

This jazz festival is called JOHZENJI STREET JAZZ FESTIVAL IN SENDAI. SENDAI is a one of the famous city in the Tohoku district in Japan. JOZENJI is a name of the street where located in the main stage of the Jazz fastival. And the name was derived from the name of the temple in the Edo period. And this Jazz festival is music festival with 17 years history.

It will be held from September 8th to the 9th, and we will be performed on September 8th. We have about 2 month till the Jazz festival. However it's not so enough time for working adult.
Hang in there!

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In my case, there are a lot of people who develop excellent software in the person who likes music or who plays music.
I heard Alan Kay who is a great software developer whom I respect is a Jazz player.
Actually, I seem the development of software looks like music.

• It is not a physical object.
• It follow the sort of mathematical theory.
• It can be described in a some kind of document.
• It changes as the seconds tick away.
• It is important about user experience.
• It needs some tension occasionally.
• It exists depending on creator's sense.
• It requires a some kind of skill and training.
• etc...

I'm not only a "Sunday Xcode programmer" but also a musician.
I love not only the iMacG5 but also music !
I had stopped the amateur rock band live performance since university student. However, I restarted the amateur rock band after an interval of ?? years in the wake of alumni association.

I make a belated attempt to add a photo album of the "Debut live on 17th Sep. 2006" of my amateur rock band to my band website, because it was so busy with development and announcement of my RapidWeaver plugins. Of course, it's made by my new PostcardViewer plugin !

P.S.
BTW, my band website includes the discussion board which made by alpha version of the RapidWeaverBBS. Unfortunately, this discussion board only allows Japanese language because we had a lot of spam from foreign countries. (This function is depending on a parameter of the RapidWeaverBBS.)

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