Father Time
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9/20/2022 2:17:49 PM
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Resilient like an indie.
I remember when I started making music it was so innocent. In 4th grade like the rest of my classmates I learned to play the Flutophone. heh I was playing drums in elementary school and melody just called me in 7th grade, I pushed my mom to buy me a piano. For years every Tuesday night at 7:30 I took piano lessons with Mrs. Linebaugh. She had bad breath but I learned to forget about that. I graduated from those rudimentary lesson books to the point where she was bringing me the Hit Parade hits from the likes of Elton and McCartney (and I could play them!) Meanwhile it was 6th grade i found myself joining Chorus even though I was relatively certain that Chorus was not for boys. heh I wrote my first songs on piano, the first one was about a girl I loved named Kris. I think that was in my junior year of high school.
I was halfway thru college when I bought my first guitar, an acoustic. It was an Eagle, oddly enough. I started strumming, pretty much all I still do these days ha ha and during summer break I wrote my first song on guitar which by the way is going to be our next Negative Tendencies release. I moved to LA after college and there I bought my first legitimate acoustic guitar and played on the roof of our apartment building which I was also our security guard for, I wasn't a very good security guard. In fact one time my boss, the complex owner named Stu caught me during my shift in the pool while i was tripping with rainbow glasses on. ha
Anyway after we returned from LA I got married to my last college girlfriend and sold my baseball cards for $1000 and bought my candy apple red Stratocaster (that I intend to be buried with). I got my job at the post office affording me the funds to go to New York's music row (Manny's, Sam Ash, etc.) and bought a 4 track Tascam cassette deck, an EMU drumulator, and a Korg Poly 800 synthesizer and started to make actual music for the first time, the first song I worked on was a song Neg Ten did called Les Feuilles. We rented this huge house in Enola PA and I recorded day and night, this is where I wrote Wild Tomorrow and Missing Link and some of the most popular Neg Ten tracks. It was while working on Wild Tomorrow then called Red Letter Day that I suddenly knew with all my being that I was destined to be the future of rock so to speak. I somehow psyched myself up so much about this outcome that when I finally did post mp3s of my music in early 2000, it literally shocked me that folks were not overwhelmed. My own self-belief had planted/ensconced in me this star dream, my talent was surely going to make me rich and famous, for I was certain I was as good as, at least in the same ballyard of my rock heroes. I said to myself I have to make this happen before I'm 25. 25 crashed down on me like blur, and where the fuck did all those years after that go?
I rode it out. and I somehow still feel invulnerable. The dream died a million times but on the days the best band out there releases a new song, we're already working on the next. Just wait til ya hear that, I promise it's a killa. and the singer, he's really something. Not sure what.
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