Bryan Newman is in town. It's fun to see him. Old times. All that. It's funny, it's been ten years since we started Saves The Day. I remember the first time Bryan called me to invite me to come jam with him and Justin Gaylord. This was 1993, eighth grade. Justin and Bryan had been playing music together in Bryan's basement, and they'd bring in tapes of their jam sessions to school to play on a boombox during lunch break. I thought it was cool that they made their own tapes. I was intimidated when Bryan asked me to come play, cuz I had only started playing guitar that summer before eighth grade. So, I was quite green but excited when he asked me to come play. I think the first time I went over there, it was just me and Bryan playing, he on drums, me on guitar and trying to sing. I had stayed up the night before trying to write a song to impress Bryan and Justin. I knew they liked Rage Against The Machine, so I wrote some heavy rock riff, and tried to write rap-style lyrics over the top. It was a song about Tipper Gore and censorship, which I didn't give two shits about, but I thought I needed to impress Bryan and Justin. I remember Bryan laughed about my silly lyrics and he teased me about it for years and years to come! Part of my musical hazing. And after that first time playing together, it seemed there wasn't a weekend that went by without us rocking out in Bryan's basement. So much fun. Little by little, we sort of got better. Started playing "shows" like barbeque brunch at the tennis courts and shit like that. Good times. So, now Bryan's here, chillin'. It's been more than ten years since we first played together. 14 years, huh? Pretty nutty! Werd.

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