It's who you know....

As I have mentioned a couple of times recently, my old band will be playing a show on Thursday night. We are a three piece rock band but we haven't always been that way. We used to have a singer who we had to part with due to creative differences. After he left, the three of us took over the singing duties trading off on various songs based on our vocal stylings. That was in 1994.

Flash forward to 2003. We were preparing for our first show in three years and figured if our old singer was in town, we should invite him up to sing a couple of songs for old times sake. As it turned out, he was in town and we specifically practiced three songs that he was going to sing, but on show night, he was sick and unable to participate.

As I was personally preparing for this years show, I made some trips to various music stores in town looking for some things I needed and ran into our old singer working at one of the stores. It turns out he had recently been talking to Charles, our bassist, and they had discussed trying to fit in a few songs this year. He came to our practice yesterday and was singing along to all the old songs. We decided on four that he would sing during our set and he went on his way. Before he left though, he mentioned that if we needed any gear for the show, he would give us a good price.

That leads me to the point of this blog entry. Although we may have had some rocky times in our friendship, we have all still remained friends. And I feel that because of our willingness to include him in the set, he felt like repaying the favor at his store. So it pays to have connected friends. I visited the store today and he gave me an excellent price on some XLR (microphone) cables. This once again proves that the music business is all about who you know.