Meets and Greets

I DJ at 89.5 FM WSOU on Saturday nights from 8PM until midnight. It's just something I've done for fun since June of '05. Each DJ gets an engineer. So my engineer for half of my shift is Omar. He had his first band meet and greet today. It makes me reminisce...


The first band I ever met was Trivium. This was before they were big, before Matt had long hair. This was Ascendancy and Matt and Corey were 19. I went up the elevator and there were some people I had never met in the elevator with me. So stupid me, I ask, who are you? I didn't know of Trivium at the time so when they told me who they were, I still had a blank face. What can I say, I'm that girl.

Trivium will always have a special place in my heart for that. Matt had short hair at the time and was talking about high school, girls and crocodiles though not in that order. I've met Trivium once or twice since then. I did make them cupcakes the next time I saw them for The Crusade album. Apparently they were good, Matt took them for his dad who helps manage them.

Since The Crusade, I haven't like Trivium half as much. Supposedly Shogun is supposed to be better, but I haven't been inclined to listen to it. I'm still stuck on Children of Bodom and Slipknot for the moment. Eventually I'll listen....eventually....someday I'll get to all the music I want to listen to.

The whole purpose of this post was to remind myself that I want to make a list of all the bands I have seen in concert/how many times and what bands I've met. Someday I shall grow old and feeble minded and not remember, so it's better to start thinking of this now.

Off to make my list, with the list will come more Meet n Greet stories. There are plenty of them....