…As I sit here, I’m listening to David Bowie and reminiscing of days gone by. Between my younger days spent writing QBasic code, and my current days spent writing HTML, I had a go at being a musician. I met Scott Campany at a worship practice at my church one day some five or six years ago. Through him I met his girlfriend Angela and their friend Aaron Trudell. My friend Dan was a bass player. We started playing music together regularly and off and on for the next three years or so.

The whole story is a long one that is best saved for a quiet night and a bottle of wine between friends. But, I can say I’ve never had an experience that could touch what we had in that group, musically or otherwise.

Through it all, I think, the biggest challenge was holding everything together despite an endless stream of life changes. We saw three marriages, four college graduations, relocations, and the general uncertainty of the college lifestyle, times five. Eventually, life won out and we drifted away from the band thing and spent time on other things.

In my time away I married my true love, failed college, and got a new job. I kept playing music for a while too. I spent a summer playing with a jazz fusion band called Celebration Free Jazz. I played on a recording that was done for a Plattsburgh State Professor’s independant film. I never saw the release. I took some time to record some of my own songs. I spent a year as the Production Manager for WQKE, Plattsburgh.

We still get together and talk fondly of our days playing and writing music…

Something is happening tonight at 7 o’clock.

“I’m sitting in a tin can…”

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