When I was in college, I was in a college band.

I stumbled upon some of the MP3’s while I was organizing my file folders involving musicianship, which contain not only things I’ve written, bands I’ve been in, but also files passed to me from colleagues.  Buried in the “Colleagues” folder I found one called “Live at KXLU”.  I thought, “who do I know played on KXLU?”

I opened up the folder and opened up “audio_03.mp3″.

Then it came rushing back to me like a flood.

HOLY SHIT, I thought, I PLAYED AT KXLU! And with this band, no less.

And after a couple of listens, I realized that as frenetic and tangled all the instruments sounded (we were a band of 6 members), that a lot of my writing these days is significantly rooted in a lot of principles A Patch of Black (in a riot of color) used to move song structures forward.

Yes, we had a long band name.  I was in one of those bands.

“Complete & Constructed” live at KXLU

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