In 2003 we had a solid lineup, for all of 6 gigs, before our drummer left to join a piano pop rock band.
So, from 2004-2007 me and the other guitar player (known as Pat the magnificent) wrote songs with me on the guitar, and him on keyboard drums. We got really good at this, I still think to this day that Pat is better on the drums using the keyboard, than many of those that we tried out, anyway, after constant writing of songs and recording little demo's, we eventually got the lovely Jon through HERE, which was a bit nice.
We took him down to jam with us, and a fella we were jamming with, named Terry the Builder. He was Terry, ..he was a builder. His drumming was mechanical and boring. Jon said afterwards that he knew a better drummer, and turns out that this guy is amazing!
They were then named Jonny the Juicer, and James the Juggernaught, and we completed this lovely lineup by cloning Donny from Nebukadnezza and cunningly naming him Donny the Dodo so that Fred and Adriano wouldn't notice
, and that was that!
So yes Mr Morton, we (damnas) certainly have been there before!!!
It's fucking long!