Mark Ronson

Like everything was about this band and there were four other brilliant musicians in it.

And I was, I was sort of probably the weak link technically as a guitar player, but my, you know, I hustled, got us, you know, the

made the flyers, got us the gigs, arranged the songs, produced our demos, and stole stage clothes from my mom's closet.

But I think there was just this moment where I started to become a little frustrated with the lack of my technical abilities, and everyone's kind of shooting past me.

And I started to have this more real realization, like, if this is what being a musician is, if I want to be in music, I might have to find...

my own lane.

And we had had this really big gig, our most important gig ever at this thing called the New Music Seminar, which was sort of like a South by Southwest that used to happen in New York in the 90s where the biggest bands and new bands would play and A&R scouts would come and that's how they find the huge superstars of tomorrow, whatever.

And we got this big gig, which I sort of blagged our way into opening up for, I think it was Arrested Development.

And we had just

We had bombed.

We had bombed at the gig.

It was the last gig before a couple of the band were going off to college.

It was just one of those turning point nights where we're like, wow, this might be over.

And riding back uptown in my drummers, I remember he had a Mazda 626.

It was his stepdad's.

And we'd shoved the drum kit and my amps in the back.

And we're heading up the West Side Highway kind of like in dead silence because we're just both kind of like just so bummed from the gig.

And he put this song on.

They reminisce over you.

And there was just something.