Thank You: D Wade & D Wade

This week’s thank you post was inspired by a meet­ing I was involved in this morn­ing. I was asked to intro­duce myself and tell the group some­thing about me that they prob­a­bly did not know. I vol­un­teered the fact that from 8^th grade through col­lege and for a cou­ple years beyond, I was the lead singer in a rock band. Derek Wade, Dustin Wade, and I (along with sev­eral great drum­mers) spent over a decade writ­ing music, per­form­ing live, and hav­ing fun. These two guys have been involved in so many of the great moments of my life, and have pro­vided me with some of my fond­est mem­o­ries of youth. (Freak­ing out the State Auditor’s Wife at her Birth­day Party at Amer­i­cana, Bucket Nights, Tuty’s, May Daze, Bat­tle of the Bands, Barn Par­ties, Tal­ent Shows, road trips etc…)  I still get chills when I hear Derek’s gui­tar solo in “My Place” or Dustin’s bass line in “Shape of What Sur­rounds.” It is funny to me that many of the peo­ple I know from that time in life would asso­ciate me with music, while most of those I work and go to school with now have no incli­na­tion of my musi­cal past. Life changes things. The mem­o­ries remain in my head, and I think back fondly of our days as rock stars. Together we wrote some pretty good music and had some amaz­ing times, and I would like to say “Thanks.“
–Some­day we will embark on the reunion tour.