I’ve been wondering lately what I should put on this page to update it. (Because it’s been a while and I feel bad–people still do check in on me from time to time, which I appreciate!) So I decided to share something fun: I used to be in a blues rock band called the Benjamin Road Band.
The inspiration for this post is simply that I happened upon a few former bandmates (hello Eric Wells and Dave Wright!) from the Benjamin Road Band recently at a favorite restaurant, and it has reminded me of this amazing, fun, exciting time in my life, which occurred about 12 years ago. But happened.
I mean, WHAT? I was lead singer in a BAND? I actually got to do this? They let me??
It’s not like we got famous outside our own circles or anything, (even though—cough—I’m proud to say we performed for six and a half solid years and were finalists in the Boston Blues Challenge of 2011), we were still middle-aged folks having fun in a cover band. And although we were on TV, it was local access with incorrect graphics at the beginning. (No, were were not a Rolling Stones cover band.)
But there’s no denying it was our sweet, modest claim to fame, and well worth our time and energy and dreams and even the occasional angst. We had a really good run.
And yes, it is fun to look back and remember.
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