My friends and me love music, especially rock. We have our own band called “Rock on”. But we never played professionally. It was our secret passion, a passion that we had yet not displayed to the world.
Initially when we started off, there was a hell lot of trouble. The trouble being that we were driving Ed’s parents insane with so much of noise. I agree the initial days were absolute pure noise. They never understood we were just starting out. But what did they expect? Mozarts by birth!!! But then I soon realized that it was simple generation gap…for them it will always remain “noise”. Well, at least our parents called it so. Finally seeing that we will never give up Ed’s parents converted the garage to a sound proof studio, for their own sake. His parent’s house was the biggest (read richest parent) amongst rest of our parents’ so it was natural we used to assemble in their garage.
Apart from playing the guitar and the drums we loved to play at the beer pong tables. It was our source to brilliance as Ed calls it. Every time we had a good game at the beer pong tables the next day our creative juices would be bursting to come out and we end up making good music, well, good enough for our souls.
Then one day I saw this ad in paper which called in for talents, and the prize money was $10,000. It was pretty cool amount to get us all the equipments and instruments that we so lacked in our studio. It was quite a good chance for us to showcase our talents as well. At least we will know where we stand in the eyes of a wider audience.
When I broke this news to my friends, they were of course excited about the prize money but not about performing. We had a not so awesome record of performing back in school; it was our first and last… till date. When it was time to perform we were all nervous, which I believe almost all would be but Ed’s nervousness-turned-phobia of people was quite infectious. And we ended up making noise rather than playing our favorite music. We found it so hard to face girls after that especially ‘cause we were trying to be smart in their eyes just a few days before that.
If we want to get new instruments this was our chance. We knew we could never earn this amount until we finish college. So we thought to take the risk again. Money and girls make you do stuff that you don’t really want to do. We decided to hit the club, drink beer playing at the beer pong tables to clear our head. And indeed we got the clarity of thought from our games and at the beer pong tables we decided to do it, enter the competition. We played the games late into night, skipped going to college and started working toward our prize money.
And the day arrived for us to perform and for our last rehearsal we got together once again in the studio and to our utter horror Ed was back to his infectious phobia of performing in front of people. Finally Ed decided to take solace in playing at the beer pong tables, our remedy to all our fears of life. We got so much competitive trying to beat the other at the beer pong tables that we forgot our fear. But what we didnt anticipate was performing after getting drunk. But it came out pretty well man! We hardly anticipated that. We had to be satisfied with $5,000 only. But it was such huge step for us. Thanks to beer pong tables, I still wonder what would have happened if we hadn’t hit club that day. Ed has already taken the oath to play beer pong tables before every single performance that he is ever going to make.
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