Today is my friend Nate's 50th birthday. He and I have been friends since high school. We always shared a love of music, technology, and sports (particularly baseball).
We also had a little two-man band together in the late 80s and early 90s. It has been a while, but I've written about the band before. We called ourselves SRO, which as I've mentioned is ironic when you consider we never played a single gig that was truly standing room only.
But we did play gigs. And we recorded an album together.
"Album" is perhaps too grandiose a term here, but we did collaborate on an 11-song cassette that a few people actually bought with real money. Of the songs on that cassette, all but one were originals written by Nate, the exception being Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" (which we covered because Nate could play it on the piano and people love that song).
The album was/is called "Sandlot Tunes." If you have a few minutes free and no real purpose in life, you can click here to listen to some of it.
The recordings are a bit dated, limited as we were by our musical tastes at the time and the technology available to us. But many of the songs still stand up and are pretty catchy, if you ask me.
Anyway, it was a cool thing to have done, and it led to me continuing to make music now whenever I get the chance, even at the age of 51.
All of which is good for the soul.
And the mind. I may not be able to recall what I had for dinner last night, but I can just about tell you the key in which our most popular song "X-Squared" was written (A-flat, I think).
Anyway, happy birthday, Nate. Someday we'll get together again and jam.
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