On May 27th, 2014 I accomplished one of my life’s
goals. My band, Grenades in the Archives, performed live on WMBR’s Pipeline.
Pipeline is a weekly show run by Jeff Breeze that has been dedicated to local
music for 25 years, and as they celebrate their run with 11 shows around town I
couldn’t help but revile in my short time in Building 50. We were pretty fresh
as a band, with a handful of shows under are belt, but Jeff had found our band,
downloaded our 3 song EP and left it at the station to be played. After a quick
email suddenly we were being asked to play on Pipeline. I was giddy, and the
morning of I put on my WMBR shirt and just waited. We got there plenty early
enough and sat in the student’s lounge drinking cheap (but good, Mystic Saison
for 3 bucks!) and waited. It was excruciating, setting up before the show that starts
at 8 and then waiting till 9 to play.
Once it started though it was all a blur. We were told we
had about 45 minutes, we lasted 29. I don’t remember much about it, but luckily
there’s a recording of all my terrible banter and the entire set of music we
played. We were still rough, and my biggest problem was remembering lyrics, so
sometimes they come out marble mouthed as I tried to remember everything I was
spouting. The songs now have more texture to them as we’ve played them over the
months and I wish we could relive that moment and play some of the new songs
that I think have replaced some of our older songs, but I guess that’s what
next time is for. We’ll have to come up with 29 more minutes of brand new
material fully fleshed out and ready to roll. But who knows if they’ll ever ask
us back. Hopefully.
