I’m a massively huge dork sometimes
Yesterday I went on my first trail ride on my Rachel Rossin track bike. It wsa fun and exciting, but that’s for another blog entry.
I wanted to write about something different. I was at Bisegal (they’re custom bike frame builders, they build all of the wheels for Bedford Unicycles, and generally are very VERY nice people) before the ride to put the pedals & toeclips onto my bike. Something that was desperately needed. And there’s a rehearsal studio down the hall that always has bands rehearsing in, and it’s not sound-proofed at all so you can hear everything that’s going on.
So going away from the shop there was some death metal band playing, I’m not sure what death metal is supposed to sound like so it’s really hard to figure out whteher or not to call it good. But it’s not really my kind of music so I couldn’t really enjoy it. We were leaving anyways.
Coming back there was a different sound altogether. It was pretty pop-ish, and sort of pop-rock, not so much the punk-pop that’s going on right now, much happier and upbeat. My kind of thing that I wouldn’t mind listening to all day long. And I was really getting into what they were working on.
Of course I had no way of figuring out who they were. I wasn’t going to go knocking on the door saying “Hi, I’m Angela. I really like you’re music. Who are you?” because I’m much to shy for that.
So instead I decided I was going to write a note. That basically said exactly what I wrote above. And leave it under the door. And my friends Phil and Kelly laughed at me. Because they even played out that I would run over to the door, really quietly shove it under the door, and run back giggling.
Of course now I have this senario in my head about how I’m going to do all this.
And that’s pretty much exactly what I did. And Kelly was watching out the door while I ran back from the studio’s door. And Kelly announced to the bike shop “There’s the giggle!” which of course made me giggle more at what I’d just done.
Anyways, not knowing who on earth was in there I sort of just left it at that. Figured if no one wrote back I could go back next Saturday and see if it’s the same band playing again. Maybe catch them coming in or out or something, I don’t know. I don’t want to sound like a stalker, but I’m at the bike shop a lot so it wasn’t THAT out of the ordinary.
But someone wrote back. The band I had the pleasure of hearing rehearse is a band called The Drop Joys (http://www.thedropjoys.com/) Dude who wrote to me was named David. He says he didn’t think they sounded all that great, but I’ve yet to find a musician who REALLY liked how they rehearsed. They’re perfectionists, but I guess it makes sense. I’m out to enjoy music, not nit-pick at it.
Anyways, been at their website, grabbed the mp3 that was available and I’m honestly really looking forward to hearing more from these guys. They seem to have done lots already which is awesome. And it’s just fun that I can learn about a new band in such an obscure way.
