Everything old is new
Years and years and years ago, my husband and I played in rock bands. He was in Medicated becky, I was in Chuck Marten. We circled each others orbits for many years before even speaking to each other. (I did say two words to him once. “That sucks”. It was behind the Emerson Theater, probably around 1997 or 1998) We both had our share of musician turnover in our bands, in his case, drummers. One drummer in particular was named John Treeter, and he was probably one of the coolest band members that Dan ever had. When he quit, it was because he wanted to go live in AZ for a while with his soon to be wife. He gave several months notice, no drama, no storming out or kicking over of gear, just nice adults being chill with each other.
Several years later, Dan went to get some beer at a local brewery, and saw John behind the glass working as a brewer. He’d moved back to Indiana, gotten married and had a couple of kids. They started hanging out weekly, sometimes multiple times a week and became even better friends than they were when they were bandmates.
Flash forward to present day, and Dan’s current band Union Suit Rally needed a new drummer. Dan mentioned it to John, I threw in my two cents (Please please please your wife is awesome and this way we can hang out at shows together and your kids are so nice to my daughter!) and John finally relented and joined the band. They had their first show this weekend and it was such a success. I’m so happy because as adults, it’s so hard to have time to hang out with friends. We have our daughter, our business and the rebuilding of our house all keeping us beyond busy. So it makes it nice when we have to be someplace (a show) and friends are already there with us.
John on Drums, Dill on Guitar and Brock on bass, in the Medicated becky days.
These made me so happy. I asked them to recreate their old “stand by a wall and everyone look in different directions” pose, but they could not get through it without one or the other laughing.
Anyway, super happy for Dill that he gets another friend in the band. John is good people, a great drummer and an awesome beer brewer. (Side note story time: when I was pregnant, he knew I liked their Grapefruit Rattler beer, so he saved me a keg of it for after pregnancy!)
