Rock On

I went to a band rehearsal today with my husband and daughter. Before I worked at the factory I worked with my husband at the Olive Garden. One of the other people that worked there is the lead singer in a band called Avalanche. They used to have a web site, but I can't find it now. I found another band called Avalanche somewhere near Berlin NH, but that's not the Avalanche I know. My Avalanche is a good band, but they are trapped in the 70's. They might play some 'new' songs from the early 80's, but mostly it's old songs from Black Sabbath and Van Halen and other loud rock bands. They had their practice session in the drummer's basement. It sounded good, but really loud. It didn't make my ears bleed or anything, but it was loud.

That wasn't the first time I heard Avalanche. We had the band come out and play for us twice. The first time was in the middle of summer. We decided to have a party to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Flood of 93. We had the band come out and play right in our back yard. They could hear the band a mile away. People thought we were insane I'm sure. They might have been right. It was probably the hottest day of the year and the band was set up right in the middle of the yard, right in the sun. The band was miserable, but we replaced their sweat with beer so they didn't complain too much.

The second time we had the band come out was a lot better. I don't remember exactly when we had the second concert, a year or two after the first one. We waited until the fall, when it was cooler. Plus that time we didn't have it in the back yard in the middle of town. We had it on some property my brother owns near the river. It was much better. We had a keg (or was it two) and hard liquor. My husband didn't want any drunks messing with the keg, so he set it up inside and drilled a hole in the side of the house. He ran a hose to the hole and mounted a beer tapper right on the side of the house. People couldn't believe beer would actually come out of the tapper until they walked up and pulled the lever and beer poured out onto their shoes.