Rough Times in the Boonies

     It must have been about three years after I came back from Switzerland that I started a band with a bunch of high school friends.   I lived about 80 km north of Williams Lake B.C. with no phone and no power besides a generator down this gravel logging road 13 km off the main Likely Highway.   I had all the equipment and space to make this band work.  Of course being way out in the "boonies" we were able to crank up the sound as much as we pleased which was nice.   It really was all a band needed aside from a large group to enjoy the tunes.
          During this time we faced many challenges that most bands don't have to deal with.   More than once we were in a recording session and either the generator would burn through too much oil and shut down because it was a piece of SH#T,  or of course run out of gas.   We had many difficulties with the amount of snow we got out there.  We would get over a foot of snow over night when the band members were suppose to come out and well... not all of them had a 4x4 vehicle.   Once they made it out all was fine and dandy to jam, have some drinks and argue a little about a new song or why someone can't make it to the next practice.   A major problem was right before my place there is about a 1km hill that was good when coming in but bad when heading out.    Multiple times the drummer would have to get pulled up the hill and other times he just had to stay a while until the snow got plowed.    One time I received an email form a lady in Victoria B.C. that was a radio host.   She really enjoyed the songs I sent her and picked "Rescue Me" to play on the station.   She told me the time it would get played because like any band getting your song played on a radio station is a big thing and I wanted to know.   To hear the song I had to stream it on the internet,  of course being on generator power the internet is always off and on due to power surges.   I listened to the introduction for the song and sure enough it starts to freeze and not play anymore.   To sum it all up it was a very dissapointing and frustrating couple of minutes.  

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