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JUL 2012

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jim acoustic guitar, and put up with the constant noise i made listening to and playing music at full volume. so we had our little band that went thru various hilarious names and songs and we would jam and write and cover songs by all the alterna-grunge and metal greats at the time...and then a few of us started to get really serious about it- so we started a band called "month of sundays." month of sundays was hilarious because, while we were willing to die for it and really believed in it, we never really could find a place to fit in within the greater scheme of what was going on in louisville at the time. we were WAY too loud and abrasive for anyone into most mainstream music, but we were way too uncool for louisville's booming post-hardcore/indie rock scene at the time. that scene was a cold and dark place. i remember really being intrigued by it and going to shows at tewligans and all the haunts...watching bands and wanting to feel welcome but feeling really scared at the craziness of it all...wanting to fit in but not feeling confident enough to try and never really feeling all that "at home" either...we did find solace tho in some of the great bands of that era: rodan, hula hoop, will oldham, rachels and others... getting drawn in to the power of their music and feeling connected to it thru our blood. they had waked the same streets as us. seen some of the same things. what a crazy feeling to love a band that lives in the same town you do...and i dont know if it was the super self-consciousness of being an awkward teenager, or if the scene was really as cold and snobby as i remember it, maybe a combination of both, but we never really fit in or felt loved there- which was frustrating as that was "where it's at" back then. so we created our own scene. we called it the freak scene. we would get together with our friends and their bands and we would book our own shows outside of the giant post-hardcore scene going on at any venue we could: primizee pizza, the cardinal inn, people's houses... anywhere and everywhere we could play our music we would. 7.12 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE [49]

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