Twin I and I were watching concerts on my computer this evening and I realized 30 years have passed by in a flash. All the concerts and music videos we’ve been watching were bands/musicians that I have listened to for more than two decades. They say that when you do Youtube/Google search, you do not search for music but rather you search for memories. It’s true…when I hear those songs—be it songs by Gin Blossoms, Korn, or Lacuna Coil—memories come flooding back.

It’s astonishing as well to see how these musicians have aged so much, like Ed Roland of Collective Soul. It seems like the pandemic has advanced the ageing process for many of the people whose performances I have watched over the years. Ummm, well it seems like Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins didn’t age that drastically but James Iha had become that “uncle”.

I have passed down my love for music to my kids and I had always been supportive of their endeavors in this area. I helped Twin I buy her an acoustic guitar on New Year’s Eve 2022. She couldn’t play it well at that time because the guitar was for right-handed players and she’s left-handed. I found a guitar shop here in our hometown and had the guitar shifted to make it left-handed. However, the strings that came with the guitar snapped and I was told to buy the thicker set online. I had been carrying that guitar at the back of my car to have it re-stringed but the I wasn’t able to because it’s either the shop was closed or I was too busy. Then I had the drinks (right before I got hospitalized) with some high school classmates, one of whom was our drummer (R) back in high school, at the time we were covering Cranberries. R talked about the concerts that we have missed in recent years and we touched on the topic of having the guitar at the back of my car re-stringed. He offered to string it for Twin I. ❤️❤️❤️

So here we are, Twin I playing Nutshell by Alice in Chains.

She has become better in short three weeks.

Meanwhile, I have become a fan of this insane drummer called II from Sleep Token. He’s so in the pocket and I love how he mixes the electronic kit that he has with the traditional one, plus the pock-marked cymbals. Drumeo helped break down his creative process and showed how he played some of their songs.