ingrained...

Or uNgrained, as the case may be.
Which happens to be my brother's new band.
Which happens to have it's very first live show tonight.

I had bit of, shall we say, prodding earlier this afternoon that reminded me of why I even have this blog. And I realized this would be a great event to chronicle.

So it is the afternoon before, we have tried on outfits and I am currently listening to him, and I quote "Scare the fuck out of the neighbors" while he warms up a bit.

Keep in mind, it has been well over year since he was on stage last. So I am not sure right now if this is nerves or excitement or a bit of both. Either way, I know he feels differently about this musical path than any of the other ones so far.

I just remember being in maybe 7th or 8th grade myself and walking with him to his first guitar lessons with Richard Jesse at the music place downtown. Surrounded by instruments, he clearly got all the genetics to play the damn things. He can pick up or sit down to any fucking instrument and just get it. I can't say that I didn't give it a go or two or three...but I got something else out of growing up with this kind of person.

That "something else" has absolutely gotten me to where I am now and where I want to always be - which is surrounded by creators.

Back to the present though...I have fully charged camera batteries and two 63 minutes HD tapes ready to go. That is my role in this - to make sure that, while I am sure we will all never forget this night, that we really actually don't have a choice to forget it.

So for now, I am going to fall into "watch it all go down" mode and I will check back in later with the footage.

Behind both the lens and the scenes tonight...