Tuesday at Rehearsal
Private location, Hyattsville, MD

Familiar Faces
I attended another rehearsal. The weather was terrible - it was raining really hard. When I arrived, Duane Face had just arrived. We talked from our cars, and then I sat in his car while we waited for Donnell to open up the door. He showed me the Take Me Out To The GoGo DVD Magazine, which featured a performance of him and his brother (vocals) in their first show with Fatal Attraction. He said the other members of Fatal act as if he and his brother don't exist, but advertise that clip. They were hired by the management at the time, Bag of Beats, but the other band members fired them after they changed management.

Duane said that he's been rehearsing with FF since November. He hadn't expected to play with them at all. He was told to be ready to play on Saturday, but since BJ came, he wasn't needed - he said that's fine, he enjoys his sleep. That's actually the major reason he doesn't go to many FF shows - he prefers to sleep. He has a day job.

Donnell arrived and opened up the door. Shortly after, Dwayne, Doc, DP (with his two sons), Mike, and Adia arrived. Doc said, "Damn keyboard players" since they didn't show up. Donnell talked with the other band members about listening to their practice CDs.

I interviewed Donnell by himself first since he had to leave at 10 PM. He and Adia left to go to Night Flight so that she could record some more vocals for the album. Donnell said Kevin (the owner), not Scotty Beats, would engineer the session.

After that, I interviewed Dwayne, DP, Mike, Doc and Duane together in a joint interview. I found both of the interviews to be very informative. The second interview was a good example of group dynamics. It lasted well over an hour. As it wrapped up, Nephew arrived. He encouraged Mike to add a song to the playlist that he played on his cell phone. Nephew said that he had a day job and did his work with FF "Out of love". We all got out of the rehearsal area after that.

Dwayne and Nephew had a conversation outside in the rain. Nephew said Donnell didn't really like rapping, when he first started, he got headaches.