![]() ![]() We arrived to the Los Angeles venue on this early summer day, prepped and pumped and we sound checked our song a couple of times on the big, shiny stage. We were enlisted to perform this single song and we happily rehearsed it up over a week long period to get it familiarized enough that it felt less like we were on the verge of shitting ourselves and more like we’d been playing it all along and of course we could handle this Herculean task. The recording up above ☝□ is the board mix of The Who track ‘I Can See For Miles’. “Stuff” like being invited to perform the music of The Who on national television, with the band themselves and a respectable huddle of others, including Pearl Jam, The Flaming Lips, The Foo Fighters, and Tenacious D. ![]() Stuff that even in my wildest rock ‘n roll dreams I didn’t dare to indulge. Shocked, not because I have a low opinion of what we are capable of, but eyes wide and flushed with surprise at some of the opportunities that sometimes wiggle their way into our line of sight. There are those instances, then there are the events that to this day, I am shocked we had the opportunity to participate in. ![]() But staying focused on the task at hand (in these instances it was usually “finish singing the song and don’t start crying out of happiness”) was more important than reveling in whatever childhood musical fantasy was unfolding before me. There have been countless instances in our career as a band that were too delicious to savor completely in the moment where I recognized that something potentially indelible was carving itself into my bark, and that these would be moments I would lovingly drag my finger across while reminiscing in years to follow. ![]()
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