A few of you Dallas guys might recall I am friends with Chris Holt (local musician who has a nice following in the Dallas club scene) from childhood and still talk to him today. Chris and a few of my other friends formed a band in 10th grade called "Thin Ice". I tried to join as the harmonica player, but A) I sucked worse at that than I do at spelling and 2) To my knowledge, no band in the history of ever has had a dedicated harp player. So I was the band's "Manager", which meant I sat around with them during practice, drank beers and lugged their gear around to local gigs and studio recordings.
In 11th grade, Thin Ice fired their drummer and hired a kid two years younger named Rob Giles to fill in. Kid was immensely talented and also very rich. That was key because he had a nice sized mansion in Highland Park that allowed for unsupervised band practices and tomfoolery with young ladies and weed, which was very taboo back then in Texas. Thin Ice even recorded a couple of tapes, which I might have laying around in an old suitcase.
Thin Ice won every "Battle of the Bands" it ever entered and wasn't half bad, but after HS, the band dispersed to go to college while Rob finished out HS. I lost track of Rob, but my sister remained friends with him and she reconnected with him on Facebook a few years ago. Turns out Rob has stayed with the music and has enjoyed a pretty nice career. He plays in a band called
The Rescues and married some gal who is on Grays Anatomy (
Caterina Scorsone). I saw him play a couple years back in Portland and while the music didn't really do much for me, I was very impressed with their set/talent. I met him and his wife after the show and they couldn't have been nicer, so I'm rooting for the guy.
Turns out, he's picked up another fan along the way. Police guitarist Andy Summers saw Rob play and invited him over to his house to play some music. Fast forward to today and their new band Circa Zero released its
first single. Again, it's not my cup of tea, but it's catchy and I like the fact that Summers plays a guitar solo in it.
Anyhow, tl;dr, LOOK AT ME.