#7 Coldsore
Saturday, February 7th, 2009When I was a sophmore in High School. Things started changing for me. I was completely put off by most of the kids at my school. I dyed my hair yellow, wore size 50 jeans even though i was barely 140 pounds. Brett, Chris and I were the best of friends. Brett and I drove old grandma cars. He had a Coronet and I had a Fairlane 500. We drove around constantly listening to music when we weren’t being stalked by our girlfriends at the time.
The Kurtz brothers and the Kestner brothers and I decided to start a band. It started shortly after the Kestners band Strychnine broke up. We started practicing in the attic of the Kestner’s house. I was 16 and it was a dream come true. We asked Chris to play bass. I think he was maybe just 14 at the time. He was singing in a band called Naked Lawnmower. Brett and John played guitar and Dave played the drums. We wrote maybe 20 songs over the course of a couple of years. We played alot of shows. Some of the most memorable of my life. The best being a show we played at the theatre in LeMars. We basically had the entire movie theatre to ourselves. It was a crazy night. I think I made out with some girl on a pool table.
But one of the most memorable moments of my childhood was going to record at Jim Boogensburgers studio in Omaha. John was living there at the time and we all stayed in his apartment. We recorded four songs. None of them were my favorites but what do you do. Its still one of my favorite 7″s. Here are a couple of tracks. I would tell you the lyrics but its better if you try to figure them out for yourself.
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