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ericcolemanWindyCon 36, 10 years ago … I heard a voice that changed my life.
I think it was the Saturday night music circle. Toyboat was set up with their usual circle gear. A couple of tiny amplifiers, me with the Handsonic drum. Sitting on the riser behind me was a young woman who I had met that summer at Duckon. I had a teensy bit of an unrequited crush on her. She was very cute … VERY cute. Very bubbly and charming.
That night I heard her sing a cappella. It was the theme song from some anime, I don’t remember which.
My time as a solo performer was winding down. Toyboat was getting bigger. I was writing some music that didn’t fit anything I was doing, so I was kind of, sort of, looking for a singer for that project. I didn’t have the right voice, I knew that. If I ran into the right voice … cool.
Then that really cute young woman sang in circle. I heard the voice for the new project. Bonus that it was someone I had, and I was certain would remain, an unrequited crush on.
I turned to her and said “you and I have to talk”.
She thought she had done something horribly wrong. Instead she had done something horribly right. In that moment she changed both of our lives.
She got up with me and sang at the next Capricon a few months later. At Musecon that August she finally smacked me upside the head. I still didn’t think she would be interested in me.
10 years, 4 albums, 3 EPs, 150+ songs, 175 shows, 3 houses … 1 bought, and 2 many instruments to count, we continue on this incredible journey.
I love you my fabulous Lizzie Crowe. Thank you for singing that song 10 years ago.
I think it was the Saturday night music circle. Toyboat was set up with their usual circle gear. A couple of tiny amplifiers, me with the Handsonic drum. Sitting on the riser behind me was a young woman who I had met that summer at Duckon. I had a teensy bit of an unrequited crush on her. She was very cute … VERY cute. Very bubbly and charming.
That night I heard her sing a cappella. It was the theme song from some anime, I don’t remember which.
My time as a solo performer was winding down. Toyboat was getting bigger. I was writing some music that didn’t fit anything I was doing, so I was kind of, sort of, looking for a singer for that project. I didn’t have the right voice, I knew that. If I ran into the right voice … cool.
Then that really cute young woman sang in circle. I heard the voice for the new project. Bonus that it was someone I had, and I was certain would remain, an unrequited crush on.
I turned to her and said “you and I have to talk”.
She thought she had done something horribly wrong. Instead she had done something horribly right. In that moment she changed both of our lives.
She got up with me and sang at the next Capricon a few months later. At Musecon that August she finally smacked me upside the head. I still didn’t think she would be interested in me.
10 years, 4 albums, 3 EPs, 150+ songs, 175 shows, 3 houses … 1 bought, and 2 many instruments to count, we continue on this incredible journey.
I love you my fabulous Lizzie Crowe. Thank you for singing that song 10 years ago.
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Date: 2019-11-13 04:32 pm (UTC)You. This is gorgeous. Happy anniversary, and may there be many, many more.
-SPCFolk~
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Date: 2019-11-14 07:21 am (UTC)Yay, you two.
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Date: 2019-11-14 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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