8/30/2023 0 Comments Punk mosh pit![]() But every so often, he picks up the bass again. My brother came home for Christmas, and while I peeled potatoes in my mom’s kitchen, he taught Sawyer how to tune his new (to him) Fender Squier Strat.ĭanny is an author and works in the management side of music now, working with bands and events. I took the iPad back and searched for "used electric guitars." He has tickets for Fall Out Boy in March. Now Sawyer likes Green Day, too, and bands I hadn’t heard before. Maybe it was two years. My clubbing days are long behind me. The last show I saw was Jason Mraz at the Dodge Theater - a year ago. I go to fewer shows these days, and there are no mosh pits when I do. I went to see Jane’s Addiction at the Mason Jar and a band with a name I can't use in a family newspaper in an old warehouse. I bought Dead Kennedys and Violent Femmes records at Zia Record Exchange, adding them to an eclectic collection that included Bonnie Raitt, Madonna and Elton John. I tapped out the other names of Danny’s bands into the search bar. to watch live bands perform, soaking up the energy of a packed dance floor, the beat of the music matching the beat of my heart. Even I sometimes have trouble reconciling the person I am now with the person I was back then, when I would leave the house after 10 p.m. I went to see them at the Devil House in Tempe. “Best Kissers in the World.” They started here, moved to Seattle in 1987 but came back on tour. I narrowed my eyes at him and searched for another band Danny played with. ![]() Onstage, Danny pushed his hair out of his face, leaned into his microphone and said, “See that girl over there? That’s my sister. I told Sawyer that I saw his uncle play with the Nova Boys at the Mason Jar in Phoenix in the mid-80s, and the place was jam packed. “That’s Uncle Danny?” he asked, pointing to the long-haired guy playing bass guitar. I told Sawyer this story a few weeks before Christmas and then took the iPad from him and searched for “Nova Boys.” The band put out one album, “Death in a Dress,” in 1984, and went on tour. He bought a drum set and a bass and joined a punk rock band, the Nova Boys. I wore my Sid Vicious T-shirt and ratted my hair.Ī group of football players lobbed raw eggs at us. Once during Spirit Week, someone on the student council asked Danny to play punk music on a turntable during lunch on Punk Rock Day. He blasted the Ramones, Blasters, X and The Clash in his bedroom, which was right next to mine so I listened, too. My older brother was into punk rock when we were in high school in the early '80s. But this interest in punk rock is relatively new - and achingly familiar. He’s always liked classical music and alternative bands. I think Sawyer would make a fine guitar player. He’s been playing the piano since he was 8. He showed me a couple of YouTube videos on his iPad. Think the Ramones playing Hungarian Dance No. He had discovered musicians online who were playing classical pieces - Rondo alla Turca and Beethoven’s Fifth - in punk rock style. ![]() That electric guitar was the only thing Sawyer wanted for Christmas. ![]() But I couldn't help wondering, if it's too loud, am I too old? Did I just say that? I mean, it really was loud. “Turn that down,” I said, opening the door of his man cave.īut then I heard what I had said and stopped. I called down the hallway to my teenage son that I was almost ready to leave, but Sawyer couldn’t hear me because he was picking out Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on his new electric guitar. I put on thick eyeliner and twice as much mascara as I normally wear. I pulled on a white T-shirt with Xena Warrior Princess on the front, finished it off with black boots and a fitted black velvet jacket. I pushed off the doorway, swooped down and snatched my oldest jeans off the floor. I leaned against the doorway of my closet. I wished I had my leather jacket still, or even that Sid Vicious T-shirt. I was going to a punk rock show at a bar in Phoenix.
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