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Re: Introductions: How did I get here?

126 by The Yeoman Ghost
I’m guessing my origin story is fairly unique. Sometime in the mid-2000s, I was routinely exchanging fun, flirty emails with a co-worker. In an effort to up my level of cleverness, I started making my emails multimedia by including pictures. One day, we were discussing coffee, and I performed a Google image search for “man drinking coffee,” which led to a practically-made-to-order image of a gentleman smiling while holding a coffee cup.

It wasn’t until after I’d sent the image that I thought, “Boy — if I didn’t know any better, I’d think that was [FM name politely withheld],” who had been a fixture of my local music scene while he lived here, and with whom I’d been acquainted. (Indeed, he was set to record the first full-length of my then-band immediately before said band dissolved.) The resemblance nagged at me sufficiently that I eventually went back to Google, relocated the image, and clicked on it — which brought me here (or more precisely, the old “here”).

I subsequently mostly-lurked on the old PRF. The forum seemed very much like a closed shop back then, where everyone seemed to be from Chicago, everyone seemed to personally know one another, and—frankly—the atmosphere seemed a little unwelcoming to strangers (if not slightly hostile in general). But it was a great technical resource, and frequently a fun read, and the people seemed as like-minded as any I imagined finding on the internet. To this day, it’s the only message board I frequent, and the only one on which I have an account (even if my Drafts folder contains more posts—written, then shelved out of lingering, PRF 1.0 anxiety—than I’ve actually published).
Tone attorney formerly known as Tom Lael is Dogs.

Re: Introductions: How did I get here?

127 by jfv
*bump*

This thread has been buried for too long and I just read through it for the first time in a while.

My first post in this thread was obliterated from existence because I'm an idiot, so I'll try to recreate that post:

My name is Jason, and I currently reside in Volo, IL. It's too boring to not be true.

I've been involved in music since before I remember. My parents are at fault as they are/were both musical. My Dad was a music teacher in St. Charles, IL for 40 years and had his own rock & roll cover band for about as long. As a result, I know many of his favorite bands (e.g., Doobie Brothers, Chicago) very well.

My cousin was a DJ at a college radio station in the 1980s, and through him I was exposed to the first bands I really loved, e.g., R.E.M., The Smiths.

I was socially inept and friendless in school until about sophomore year in high school, when a group of other school band nerds struck up a conversation with me because I was wearing an R.E.M. t-shirt. They for some reason didn't hate me. As a result, I was still socially inept, but now in a group with other socially inept school band kids. The brother of one of those guys was in a local (Chicago) band, and it was through them (in the early '90s) that I really started getting into indie rock and punk.

I then became friends with other socially inept school band kids in younger classes and started a rock & roll band with a few of them (in 1994), and that band evolved a year or two later into the band I am in today. After my Dad died in 2021, I joined this forum (which I had known about and lurked on for a few years) to get tips on recording at EA. Ultimately, we decided to record an EP at EA later that year in honor of my Dad.

So that's my story... probably more than anyone here wanted to know. Also, I spend way too much time on my computer and, especially when I first joined, post way too much here. Sorry about that.

P.S. thank heavens for school band
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
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