Silly Friday Post – I was recently sent an email warning me that a very bad video from my past had shown up on the internet. As I read the email, I felt a kick of adrenaline as I pondered the consequences and embarrassment that were to sure to follow. Who would see the video? Who has ALREADY seen the video? More importantly, what if I have children someday and they see the video? How will I explain this to little Trace Jr.?
I have a confession to make. I used to play guitar in a vintage surf band called The Markdowns ten years ago. I played a shiny ‘64 Gretsch Chet Atkins through a Fender Blonde Bassman amplifier (I still have the guitar) and we wore gold sequin jackets and featured a go go dancer on stage. The embarrasment arises from the fact that in the afforementioned videos, I play a lot of notes, and unfortunately most of them are the wrong notes. This puts me in a difficult situation as I continue my life from day to day. When somebody asks my “Why?”, what do I say? How does one answer that question? Is there really an answer? I may never know the answer, all I can do is continue to live my life, day to day. To try to move on with my life, I present to you the evidence below.
Other remnants from my past:
Surfing Elephant? – Pretty sure this is NOT the name of this song.
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Dude, I played in a surf band too. I’m so old that the Super 8’s didn’t survive.
Super 8’s, what are those???
Hey, I was sitting here tonight trying to figure out how to get my old stuff onto YouTube. Trust me we could have wacko live performance duels on Lenderama because you KNOW we are all a bunch of hams.
Love the video. It’s been Radicalized.
Don’t sweat it. This stuff is going to get so ubiquitous that it just won’t have any credibility anymore….at least I hope so
Someone managed to stick a pic of me on Craigslist under “looking for a date” — with a woman. I had no idea until a (male) friend of my husband’s mentioned it to him and I was able to get it killed. I’m still not sure why Jeff’s friend was trolling for girls who were trolling for girls…
I was the last of the rhythm guitarists in The Markdowns. I think the name of the song is “Repeto” and it’s on the Surf Creature comp. “Surfin’ Elephant” didn’t sound correct to me either so I did so checking.