VH1<\/a>,<\/p>\nBut the old band didn’t exist anymore:<\/p>\n
Singer was under contract with another band. A popular and good band.<\/p>\n
Runner-up had left the industry entirely,<\/p>\n
As did Sister,<\/p>\n
Both doing the working 9-5 suburbanite thang.<\/p>\n
Miss Daisy was who knows where,<\/p>\n
Having left the State of Amy,<\/p>\n
Entirely.<\/p>\n
However,<\/p>\n
There were a few things klicking in my head.<\/p>\n
There were many people that played with the old band from time to time,<\/p>\n
So maybe it’d be possible to get some of them back together,<\/p>\n
Mix in some of my new peeps,<\/p>\n
And see what we sounded like.<\/p>\n
As anticipated,<\/p>\n
Runner-Up couldn’t be coaxed out of retirement,<\/p>\n
Sister couldn’t swing the schedule either,<\/p>\n
And though I’m sure if he was around Miss Daisy would jam,<\/p>\n
He’s currently touring elsewhere and just couldn’t be here.<\/p>\n
But I started making calls …<\/p>\n
Begging.<\/p>\n
Now for those of you that haven’t grasp this yet,<\/p>\n
The whole band analogy is kode for bowling team.<\/p>\n
And bowling seasons …<\/p>\n
Last phreaking forever.<\/p>\n
It’s not that easy talking someone into committing to bowling as a regular for a full season.<\/p>\n
But hey …<\/p>\n
I had the time on my hands,<\/p>\n
So why not try?<\/p>\n
Shaft,<\/p>\n
Who actually toured with the band for several years,<\/p>\n
Agreed to be a regular sub,<\/p>\n
Playing every other week.<\/p>\n
I got vague, acquiesence from Turtle to sub,<\/p>\n
A former regular with the band for many years too,<\/p>\n
Possibly on the weeks that Shaft couldn’t.<\/p>\n
Sweet.<\/p>\n
So counting me,<\/p>\n
And 1\/2 Shaft, 1\/2 Turtle …<\/p>\n
I was 2\/5’s of the way to having a band again.<\/p>\n
My friend Scully agreed to play,<\/p>\n
And my friends\u00a0Steel and XRay were willing to be a husband\/wife duo …<\/p>\n
With one of them being there every week.<\/p>\n
Kickbutt … 4\/5’s of the way there !!!<\/p>\n
Aggressive pleading on my part,<\/p>\n
Eventually wore down my friend ToolGirl,<\/p>\n
And she agreed to be a super sub,<\/p>\n
Available on a somewhat regular basis.<\/p>\n
Still a person short probably,<\/p>\n
A few too many subs,<\/p>\n
Not enough fulltimers,<\/p>\n
But close nonetheless.<\/p>\n
Definitely close enough to give it a run.<\/p>\n
So two years late,<\/p>\n
There I was …<\/p>\n
Walking into the old arena,<\/p>\n
Ver 2.0.<\/p>\n
Alone,<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
That’s the way it always seems to be. *shrug*<\/p>\n
Probably for the better anyways,<\/p>\n
Though I can say,<\/p>\n
For a moment there I was kinda wishing I didn’t have to be there early for a team kaptain’s meeting,<\/p>\n
Because walking in there alone felt sorta, kinda …<\/p>\n
Like I was walking in there alone. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Anyways.<\/p>\n
The old place hadn’t changed,<\/p>\n
Much.<\/p>\n
Some new paint,<\/p>\n
Ball holders,<\/p>\n
*snicker* *snicker*<\/p>\n
That’s about it.<\/p>\n
Waitress was the same,<\/p>\n
The arena manager was the same,<\/p>\n
He definitely knew me,<\/p>\n
But that’s another story. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I recognized many of the people in the league,<\/p>\n
Though other than just some smiles,<\/p>\n
I didn’t really have much interaction with them,<\/p>\n
Except for one team.<\/p>\n
Their manager came over to me and welcomed me back,<\/p>\n
Was very friendly,<\/p>\n
And though I’m sure he doesn’t realize it,<\/p>\n
Put me at ease.<\/p>\n
From what I understand,<\/p>\n
Him and his teammates,<\/p>\n
Where the ones that first suggested getting me back into the old arena.<\/p>\n
Proof I point out,<\/p>\n
That there are good people in the world !<\/p>\n
“So,<\/em>” he said approaching me with a friendly smile, “Your band is taking our lead singer, huh?<\/em>”<\/p>\n“Yeah,<\/em>” I answered with a laugh, “That’s what I hear. It’ll be a while before she’s able to go out on tour, but we’ll have many from the old band back banging around.<\/em>”<\/p>\n“Good, glad\u00a0you’re back.<\/em>”<\/p>\nSo that was that.<\/p>\n
The first week there Scully, Shaft, Steel and ToolGirl joined in for the fun,<\/p>\n
And since then we’ve had several more jam sessions with a great mix of old and new.<\/p>\n
As wornout a phrase as it is,<\/p>\n
It really does seem just like old times.<\/p>\n
Lotsa laughs,<\/p>\n
Disturbing comments,<\/p>\n
And kewl friendship.<\/p>\n
Now I really don’t know who knows there,<\/p>\n
And who doesn’t,<\/p>\n
Fortunately it wasn’t on the agenda at the league meeting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I just assume everyone does,<\/p>\n
And conduct myself in the typical Amy-manner,<\/p>\n
Doing the typical Amy-thang.<\/p>\n
The people in the league have been uber kewl !<\/p>\n
About the only oddity for me is that a couple of times,<\/p>\n
People have asked me how\u00a0I liked “Indianapolis<\/em>“.<\/p>\nHuh?<\/p>\n
I didn’t know what they were talking about,<\/p>\n
But always answered it anyways,<\/p>\n
As if I should know.<\/p>\n
Only recently did I remember that some explained Joe’s disappearance by saying he moved to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
Too phunny. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Amyways,<\/p>\n
For what it’s worth,<\/p>\n
“I liked Indianapolis. But\u00a0it’s nice to be back.<\/em>” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ring Ring … Ring Ring Krap, where’s my phone? Ring Ring … Ring Ring It’s here in my pwus somewhere, geezuz, I hate this phreaking Razr. It sucks. Ring Ring … Ring Ring I can hear it, it’s gotta be in here someplace, one more ring to catch it before voicemail. Ring Ring … Got…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,140],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":138,"label":"Function"},{"value":140,"label":"Life"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":18,"category_info":[{"term_id":138,"name":"Function","slug":"function","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":142,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":138,"category_count":14,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Function","category_nicename":"function","category_parent":0},{"term_id":140,"name":"Life","slug":"life","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":144,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":140,"category_count":48,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Life","category_nicename":"life","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}