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theferrett's writing before. He tends to post often and with verbosity, so I don't read everything he writes nowadays, but this piece really caught my eye today. It's the best entry I ever wrote about playing in high school punk bands, only I didn't write it. Really, though, the similarities are striking, right down to the band doing one glorious show at the hidden punk club with no signage amd then fading back into (even further) obscurity.
Man, how many times did I go through that cycle? And I enjoyed the hell out of it, too. Playing in bands was a social thing. If I wanted to get to know someone better I invited them over to my place (blessed with extremely longsuffering parents) to jam. Don't know an instrument? It's punk rock, man! You'll figure it out! And if you can't then you can always sing! By then end of the session, we'd have a name, and maybe even a logo, even if we never wrote more than one song, let alone actually played a show.
Those were good times. =:)
theferrett's writing before. He tends to post often and with verbosity, so I don't read everything he writes nowadays, but this piece really caught my eye today. It's the best entry I ever wrote about playing in high school punk bands, only I didn't write it. Really, though, the similarities are striking, right down to the band doing one glorious show at the hidden punk club with no signage amd then fading back into (even further) obscurity.Man, how many times did I go through that cycle? And I enjoyed the hell out of it, too. Playing in bands was a social thing. If I wanted to get to know someone better I invited them over to my place (blessed with extremely longsuffering parents) to jam. Don't know an instrument? It's punk rock, man! You'll figure it out! And if you can't then you can always sing! By then end of the session, we'd have a name, and maybe even a logo, even if we never wrote more than one song, let alone actually played a show.
Those were good times. =:)
