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July 14th, 2022, 5:55 PM
It was another day in the University of Maine. It was sunny but not too hot, so I had a nice time hanging out around campus outside inbetween classes. Turns out I wasn’t the only one who had those plans…
“Hey, Berdly!”
It was Noelle, my longtime best friend. She looked excited about something…
“Greetings, Noelle. What’s on your mind this evening?”
“Well, you know how you’re learning how to play bass… And I’m learning keyboards… And Kris is learning drums… And.. well, you get it, it’s the perfect recipe for a band! We would sound awesome, it would be so much fun jamming out!”
“That… does sound super fun!”
“Yayyyyyy! Meet me in my dorm, I’ll go get the others… Don’t forget to bring your bass!”
I smiled and nodded, and she walked away. I quickly grabbed my bass and headed to her dorm… Only to find out I couldn’t enter quite yet… Kris had brought their WHOLE DRUM KIT…
“Darling, do you need… Assistance with this drum kit?”
“…I’m fine.”
Kris didn’t want my help, so I just waited… It took a good 10 minutes for them to unpack and haul in the different components of the kit inside, although it took less time to set up luckily. I entered the dorm afterwards, and realized I was the last one in… As expected, Noelle had a piano and an organ, Kris had their drum kit, and Susie had her guitar… But I also saw Dess, Noelle’s older sister! I rarely got to see her, and she had… ANOTHER GUITAR! TWO GUITARS MEANS TWICE THE ROCKIN’ POWER! I knew Noelle and Dess were a 2-woman metal band back when they were both teenagers, so I should have known she’d be in on this whole band idea…
“So… 2 little questions: 1, What should we call this band, and 2, what genre should it be..? Those are sort of important, so answer quickly, fahaha…”
What was a good name… Nobody could think of one… I was deep in my thoughts… What bands have I been listening to lately… Oh- RAMMSTEIN… They’re German, and inspired me to learn German myself, maybe I could make the name German… Wait… German has a cool letter I could use… It could double as a logo… It is the legendary…
ẞ.
Eszett.
Double S.
As a rampant linguistics nerd, that was one of my favorite letters in any language. So, I said to Noelle…
“Let’s call it Eszett. Like, the German letter that’s all cool and squiggly. We can use it as a free logo so we don’t have to create something that’s subpar…”
“Ummm… COOL!” Noelle said, seems she liked my idea…
“And as for the genre… Whatever we want. Let’s just play how we like to and fit it together. It will be experimental and I’m sure the snobby critics can appreciate it.”
“Well- uhhh- sure, I guess..?” Noelle still looked a bit unsure, or was she just shy for the millionth time… I honestly could not tell you.
“Well, bird brain, we have to make sure we’re good musicians first, and that we don’t fuckin’ suck. Basically, we gotta JAM THE HELL OUT!” Susie said, she looked so excited she actually tried to make sure her eyes could be seen… Or did she just start coming her hair every morning the last time I saw her, again, no clue.
“Well, let’s get right to it…”
To be continued…