Apparently my youth is still out there. It appears to have moved to California.
When I was a youngster, I played guitar in a band called The Ramblin' Beach Guys. We were never famous, beyond a small radius around our high school. But we were loud and fast and fun and being a part of the RBGS, as we called ourselves, was a hoot.
Tonight, I find another young Mike Mahaffie playing guitar in another small band. This Mike is 18 "and goes to some college with a really long name." He plays guitar for The Benefits, out of Campbell, California. The other fellows in the band are all in High School. They list their influences as punk, ska and hardcore. We were similar, though more influenced by the 1960's-era Stones and early punk than by hardcore and punk.
What do they sound like? According to their MySpace profile, The Benefits sound like "a basement of frustraition! [sic]"
3 comments:
:-) does the "young Mike" know you have the same name?
Probably not... It would be a shame to tell him and make him see what a 45-year-old Mike Mahaffie looks like. Why spoil his dreams?
This is one of those stories that lead me to believe that we have no free will whatsoever.
All of our "choices" in life are forordained by our genetics, and our names.
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