Four Years ago today

RatherStarved

Seems like forever ago but wasn’t really that long ago all things considered.  I remember seeing this news while at a dinner with a bunch of work colleagues at a conference, and thinking, why the heck am I at this dinner! That was two days before the NBA shut down and everything changed.  The band was ahead of the curve.  Anyone on the fence about going to a show, remember the days when we didn’t know when or even if concerts would be back.  

GlowGirl

I absolutely remember when that news broke. After trying for weeks to upgrade my Baltimore ticket, everything just stopped (everything!!!). It was a pretty scary time here in NYC. A few weeks after this I got Covid. Luckily a mild case - but lost my sense of smell and taste for about a week. Four years ago already. Wow. 

lastexitlondon

When I listen to whoever said and that intro starts I can go back to a time driving my car all the windows done up. All the vents shut  , delivering food to the door step of family members.  Such a mad time to explain in words. Still haunted really.

Go Animal

Seems like yesterday...

deb1211

I was actually relieved cuz I was getting very scared to go to Nashville in April

Loujoe

lastexitlondon said:

When I listen to whoever said and that intro starts I can go back to a time driving my car all the windows done up. All the vents shut  , delivering food to the door step of family members.  Such a mad time to explain in words. Still haunted really.

Yep. Nothing is the same here in my head. Blah

Hankj25

During the lockdown days of late march and April, I’d listen to gigaton on my 3 mile walk, it almost timed perfectly for a loop around the greenbelts near my house.  If I walked fast enough I could skip over River Cross LOL.  

The absolute chaos, and mashed up Quick Escape was so poignant, even if it was recorded before anyone knew about Wuhan.  It was just utter back and forth and uncertainty, just like the way that song moves…I remember just walking and feeling lost on a trail I knew by heart.

I was in Vegas when this news broke.  Was so bummed because i had great tickets for St. Louis and Denver.  Four years have gone so slow…Honestly, because of the way time stopped, it felt like 20.

Kwieneke

Didn’t believe it when I saw the post on instagram. I was so angry. However, this was when the situation became very serious to me and other events followed very soon after, like the NBA cancelling the season. 

demetrios

That day sucked hard!

CROJAM95

killed the Yankee/Oriole PJ Show Doubleheader on a freakin Saturday

that hurt.....wouldve been an amazing day

BF25394

Wow, I didn't remember that those shows were postponed on the 9th. I have such a vivid memory of the chronology leading up to March 11, the day all the shit hit the fan (the WHO declared it a pandemic, Trump addressed the nation, Tom Hanks announced that he had COVID, the NBA shut down), and I don't remember that happening before the 11th, although it obviously did. If you had asked me when those PJ shows were postponed, I would have said not before the 12th. I had had a local event on the 6th that was cancelled, but I traveled to Chicago for a big (in retrospect, it easily could have been a super-spreader) event on the 7th, returned to L.A. on the 8th, and then distinctly recall heading out to my regular Wednesday-night gig on the 11th not thinking that anything particularly drastic was going to happen, but then by the end of that evening, I was stopping at the grocery store at 11:30 p.m. to buy a couple of weeks' worth of food as, in the preceding four hours as the bad news was piling up, I had decided it would be wise to hunker down starting the next day (which I did).

BF25394

Go Animal said:

Seems like yesterday...

Really? I generally am of the belief that time seems to pass at a consistent rate, but the pandemic is the one event that seemed to dilate time. It feels like a lot more than four years have passed since March 2020.

curmudgeoness

Yep. Four years. I remember people on here were upset -- I reminded them of the "Philly Flu" (H1N1) that took out so many of us in 2009. I had just cancelled my own flight to Boston to see my son's recital (his school closed at the end of the week).

My husband had worked on, among other things, the H1N1 pandemic response. On his (mostly empty) flight across the country on the 11th, he looked at the available information, did some mathematical modeling, and upon landing informed me that we were f--ked.

The tone on here seemed to change pretty quickly with the cancellation of the NBA season, etc -- went from "the band is paranoid" to "they were ahead of the curve" in the blink of an eye. A lot of things changed rapidly that week.

curmudgeoness

BF25394 said:

Go Animal said:

Seems like yesterday...

Really? I generally am of the belief that time seems to pass at a consistent rate, but the pandemic is the one event that seemed to dilate time. It feels like a lot more than four years have passed since March 2020.

It pretty much destroyed my perception of time. It's both a bad dream from another lifetime and just last week, for me.

Zod

It seems like a long time since Covid even, but in reality it was only two years ago we had to do covid tests to go both to and from the US, to got the EV shows in Seattle, and I think I still needed a negative test to fly to Oakland a few months later.

Yes it feels distance and in the past now.  Kind of like that time I moved to Alberta.. sort of just feels like it didn't happen.. lol.

Poncier

Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?

lastexitlondon

Josh maybe 

Poncier

lastexitlondon said:

Josh maybe 

It says 3 of the 5 members. 

lastexitlondon

Oh . No idea can't be true.

curmudgeoness

Poncier said:

Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?

Mike maybe?

RS151862

Haven’t had to go into the office since. So one good thing came from it.