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Joe and David had been trying for months to start an alternative rock band with strong influences from blues and a little jazz. Joe is a stand up bass player and David plays guitar and sings. Joe can harmonize and usually sings some backup lyrics when the two play together. However, they had been looking for the perfect drummer and they also wanted an electric bass player. They also wanted a saxophone player, though they didn’t think they needed one to actually join the band and could occasionally access one for studio work. However, once they found a drummer, Steve, he quickly informed them that they were hardly in a position to be hiring musicians for every gig, which they would need to do if they didn’t have one in the band. This made sense to Joe and David who mistakenly thought that since the saxophone wouldn’t be on every song, they didn’t need one permanently. Despite the somewhat naivety of the two of them, they were both talented and finally put together their new band which they called Chances.

To celebrate their first month of practice David and Joe treated themselves to a weekend in Austin, Texas. They had actually been planning this for a while, but it was all the more celebratory after they had formed their band and begun practice. They had made reservations in one of the best Austin hotels over six months ago for the weekend that the Austin City Limits Music Festival would be taking place. They were overly excited about it because they had been wanted to go for years and this year they were finally able to and the Dave Matthews Band happened to be one of the headlining acts. He was one of their favorite artists and they were both inspired by him. They had even made an arrangement of the song The Space Between and had played it at acoustic nights and received many positive responses and had drawn some attention to themselves. However, they did not want to be a cover band and this was the only Dave Matthews song they allowed themselves to play in public. Meanwhile they had an amazing time at the festival and were awed by enthusiasm of the crowd and the talent on the stage. The left the festival more inspired than ever to create great music of their own.