They had lots of creative juices running

once George joined the fold in the summer of 1995.  HUMAN INTEREST STORY was already written and George just needed to sing it into a microphone in a studio, but in their rehearsal space (Robert’s basement) they were already thinking ahead-or more like “hearing” ahead.  The sound of the band live was becoming loose and refined due to their lack of reliance on technology since they gained a bassist and keyboardist (with George) who could play the less complex of the two on any given song since he would be singing lead vocals.  Robert James Pashman would then play the more demanding parts on bass and keyboards and handle the majority of backing vocals.  Rob Durham didn’t need to play to a drum machine “click track” in his headphones anymore so that he would be in sync with keyboard sequences.  Anyway, in the basement, their first songs with George would show right away the new direction that the live situation would allow them.  George’s “What Gives” and the new “Free For All” and “Done It Again” would get a real workout live and sat comfortably enough next to perennial 3RDegree favs like “Human Interest Story” and “Ladder”.  Then there were the more complex goose-bump inducing melodies of “Live With This Forever” and “Heaven Is...” (later would become “Cautionary Tale”) that stayed true to the bands’ “must have hooks” credo.  Just how many of these songs would have made it onto a third 3RDegree cd that might have come out in 1997/98 if the band were able to get along a bit better enough to see the big picture-we’ll never know.  But we did see some of this catalog rear their beautiful heads on a long overdue 3RDegree cd called Narrow-Caster which came out in 2008.