This is just a rough draft of our help-wanted ad. There might be changes.

Josh King is leaving Volume Volume and we will be looking for a keyboard player or multi-instrumentalist. If you want to check us out and know if you would fit, we will be playing Friday February 15th at Launchpad with a fill-in keyboard player and Friday March 14th at Atomic for Josh’s last show. You can also hear some recorded stuff on our myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/volumevolumeband or our website http://www.volumevolume.com . We don’t have a deadline or rush on anything so we’ll keep doing fill-ins or three piece stuff until we get the right fit.

You will need:
-Your own reliable equipment, and ability to maintain it. It doesn’t need to be top-of-the-line; it just needs to be able to keep up.
-Your own reliable transportation (for yourself and equipment).
-Reliable way to communicate (phone, email, etc).
-Able to play. The songs are easy but would be a lot better if you are better. If you just downright suck, or have never played before, you should be hot or rich.
-Able to write songs. At least your own parts; we usually write together and write frequently. You are encouraged to bring things to the table.
-To like our music/direction. It’s fairly broad, and we like input, but if you want some other band, join some other band.
-To learn some old songs. 10 to 20 eventually. You can play older songs as-is or write new parts.
-To be able to practice together Thursdays at 6pm and Sundays at 1pm for 1 to 3 hours. (Times and days semi-negotiable).
-Be able to play out 1 to 4 times a month locally, usually Friday or Saturday evenings, usually downtown (usually you will have two week or more notice for shows)
-Ability/interest in going on the road sometime. To be determined when we figure that out.
-Ability to take a couple of days to record at least once a year.
-Be able to get along with us: Levi, Noelan and Rachel. We are nicer in person. Except Rachel. And Noelan. You don’t have to get along with Levi as much as tolerate him.

We would prefer it if:
-You can also sing. If you can backup, harmonize, match or better us in leads then you can do as much as you want.
-You are down to do some extra-curricular busywork sometimes, like flyering, mailing press kits, etc
-You do not have so many prior obligations or such a fucked up life that you just don’t realistically have the time. If you have another band, a day job, kids, school, etc that’s cool. We all have other things going on too. So if you can’t put in any time please don’t waste ours.
-NOT to have a second full-time guitar player. Multi-instrumentalist is great, another guitar sometimes is fine, or if you play some crazy thing that isn’t keyboards we’ll check it out.
-Your drug habit/alcoholism is discreet and you are respectful of ours.
-You are at least 21 and not yet 75.
-That you are cool, and have decent social skills, taste and hygiene. Within reason.
-We hope you can accept hazing and heckling from previous members’ legions of fans.

Other things we have going for us:
-Local venues and bands are good to us.
-We make our own merch and websites and everything so overhead is low, and we put most of the money we make back into the band, which pays for pretty much all band stuff. You probably won’t get rich, but at least it won’t cost you.

That being said, we are open to offers, suggestions and insults.
Contact Levi at iheartmachine@hotmail.com

we also like awesomeness, if you have some of that.

following what I said in the musicans wanted post: http://rocksquawk.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/320106059/m/89...821001172#4821001172 we aren't as uptight as the above legthy post implies. All serious offers will be taken seriously.

woot! Volume Volume * Panic * Lousy Robot * Scenester * D Numbers * Grand Canyon @ launchpad fri 15. We'll be having a guest keyboard player, and anyone interested in filling that slot full-time is encouraged to show up and see what you are in for.

I don't want to get ahead of myself here, but it looks like we are set. No grand unveiling (yet)- I just don't want to keep responding to people. Thanks for your interest, auditions are closed. The next show will be Josh's last, then we have a show in Santa Fe with Juliet filling in, and then look for an announcement and new lineup come April! I think it'll work out, but if it doesn't for some reason I doubt we have the patience to keep trying!