Four Years ago today

seanwon

RS151862 said:

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

Same!

Poncier

curmudgeoness said:

Poncier said:

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

Mike maybe?

Don't think so, born in FLA then moved to Seattle as a child as far as I know. 

Indifference71

CROJAM95 said:

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

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

Yep.  Was pumped to check out Camden Yards and see PJ on the same day.  That sure would have been nice!

mpedone

Poncier said:

curmudgeoness said:

Poncier said:

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

Mike maybe?

Don't think so, born in FLA then moved to Seattle as a child as far as I know. 

He's listed on Wikipedia under the category "Musicians from San Diego". Article says "former San Diegans", not "native", so he may have lived there for a while?

Poncier

mpedone said:

Poncier said:

curmudgeoness said:

Poncier said:

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

Mike maybe?

Don't think so, born in FLA then moved to Seattle as a child as far as I know. 

He's listed on Wikipedia under the category "Musicians from San Diego". Article says "former San Diegans", not "native", so he may have lived there for a while?

Maybe. Or he went to the zoo once and the Whale's vagina claimed him as one of their own.

lastexitlondon

Yeah mike= florida

RatherStarved

Thread integrity people 

Poncier

RatherStarved said:

Thread integrity people 

What we're discussing is in your opening post. 

HughFreakingDillon

I was so stoked for the Ottawa show that was supposed to happen on March 20. cancelled the week prior. you wanna know gutted? that's fucking gutted. then had tickets to the makeup date in 2022 but couldn't swing it. 

haven't seen them since 2014, and I don't know when/if I'll ever see them again. 

RatherStarved

Poncier said:

RatherStarved said:

Thread integrity people 

What we're discussing is in your opening post. 

Gotcha.  I forgot about that.  The essence was the cancellation, not the 3/5, but fair enough.  

HughFreakingDillon

curmudgeoness said:

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.

yep. at the beginning I was admittedly "has the world gone mad???" and then I realized, as you said, the band had made the right decision when others were still waffling. 

mpedone

My partner was working in an ICU outside of Boston at the time; she was starting to freak out a bit at the beginning of March, but still really wanted to go to at least Toronto (we had tickets to Toronto, Baltimore, Nashville, and St Louis). She was concerned about air travel, but was looking into driving (which we ended up doing in 2022) though she wasn't sure we'd be allowed back into the US. We were both crushed when the word came down, but also a little relieved? We were both aware of the risks that would have been involved, so having the decision taken out of our hands just made it easier.

Of course, it wasn't long before we realized how deluded we'd been, especially with her being near the front lines (at the start of March 2020, she transitioned into a critical care educator role, so still working with the ICUs (developing training and policies for the pandemic)). My office shut down that week, too, with the hopes that we'd come back in a few weeks. We did go back to the office - in June of 2022.

I didn't actually listen to Gigaton fully until later in the summer, when I'd go out for drives just to get out of the house on nice days. It quickly became the soundtrack to that period for me, along with Ed's solo album the following year and Pluralone's "Welcome to the Show". When I listen to pretty much any of those songs, I am transported back to sunny, warm days either in my office or driving around town. I hesitated to listen to Gigaton because I didn't want it associated with that time; by the time I started to listen to it, things were still scary, but less acute. More just general dread.