This week I’m listening to “Crazy” by Aerosmith from the 1993 album “Get a Grip”. This song takes me back to my early high school days 😁. My friends Yohei, Brian, and I had decided to form a band in high school where we would cover classic rock tunes together 😅🎸. Yohei shredded the guitar like a god and picked songs for us to cover, and Brian was brilliant with his keys and particularly versed in all his modal scales. I’ve never met anyone like him lol #musicnerd , and sometimes Richie and Andre would join us on the drums— All of them were seniors, maybe a year or two older than me — and I always felt kinda cool to be hanging out with older musicians who knew a lot more about music than I did at the time 🤘😎.
Through them, I eventually met Vasily and Sean, who help me record my first acoustic demo at the age of 16 :). The demos lived on my old myspace page for many years. I eventually kept working on many demos after that until the release of my debut Nepali album Sabai Thikai Huncha. You can find some of these early demos from my teen years now on my website 🙈! It is super cute to listen to my younger self in the process of figuring music out. Thanks, Lex for making me dig through my hard drives to find these! #iamsoproudofher🥲.
Ms.Vassiliadis and Ms.Dvoriadkina, our two inspiring music teachers at Northview Heights supported us every step of the way by setting up talent shows in our school auditorium for our performances. “Never quit”, Ms.V would say, “because the moment you quit, might be the moment you could’ve made it”. Her words stuck with me for life. I couldn’t quit, even if I wanted to. My definition of “making it” has changed a million times over the course of my life, but it seems that the only constant that remains is my love for music. It is just in my genes. #23andme
Here’s my rendition of “Crazy” from Aerosmith’s eleventh studio album “Get a Grip”.
#crazy #getagrip #aerosmith #songsthatmademe
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