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Why Knoxville Music?
Why Knoxville Music? Or more appropriately asked, why does Knoxville Business write about the Knoxville Music Scene? There are a lot of good reasons. If you want the uber-condensed version, skip to the long link towards the bottom of this article. This is one of the few pages that lets me share my personal past with you, though, so why not read the whole thing? It starts before I was born. My Mom was jamming on piano to Mozart and Bach and singing opera and the gospel when I was still in her belly. As soon as I could do it, she had me pounding out Mozart and Bach on piano and singing in her choir. I admit: back then, I didn't really care for making music because somehow it felt like work. So I began a campaign of passive resistance through rotten performance, and Mom eventually let me stop playing piano. I came back to music in 6th grade when I noticed that the boys who played the drums in band all had girlfriends. Sure, some of them were made up girls from Toledo, but I wasn't even cool enough for a fantasy girlfriend, so I felt there was a lot to gain by becoming a marching band drummer. I was seriously into it from the start, and my Mom was so pleased that she bought me a totally awesome Gretch 5-piece trap set with Zildjian cymbals. I bought Van Halen “1984” on vinyl (I know, I'm dating myself), and learned how to play Rock'n'Roll. That was a pretty good run of musical experience, but by the time I was a sophomore in high school, the newness had worn off, and I still didn't have a girlfriend. So it was I figured out that playing the drums in a marching band was a lot like work, too. I quit the marching band, but I'd probably be a deaf drummer somewhere in the Knoxville music scene by now, were it not for the cunning of my parents: I wanted a cooler car than they were willing to buy me, and they suggested I sell the by then much-maligned drum set to help pay for it. A cool car was sure to get me a girlfriend, so I took that bargain quicker than you could say, "sucker!" Several years later, I was a pre-med biology major with an aversion to the site of blood. Music saved me from a bad career move when a guy on my hall taught me how to play guitar. I went from a 3.8 to a 2.0 in seconds flat, became a psychology major, and formed a band. Flash forward to the present. I’ve been in a half-dozen bands since then, and I'm still in one today. I finally met a girl who digs musicians, and married her post haste. And I just so happen to be living in and building a webpage about Knoxville, Tennessee -- a city that some say is better positioned for exploding on the national arts and culture scene than perhaps any other city in the country. So there you have it. I grew into Rock, and this city rocks, so I write about the Knoxville music scene. I know my story ended rather abruptly, but let’s face it: we’re all rockers with the attention span of a gnat. Would you really have read any further anyway? Want to join me in writing about the Knoxville music scene? Give me a holler. Return to Knoxville Music Scene from Why Knoxville Music Return to Knoxville Business from Why Knoxville Music
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