We knew very well Silver Creek wasn't going to work as a band name. Being the young, on the verge of emo, middle schoolers Rudy, Jeff, and myself were, we thought of every possible lame band name there was. Some how, I'll never understand, we landed on Yesterday's Tomorrow. That means Today doesn't it? Why on earth Yesterday's Tomorrow? If you were lucky enough to catch a Yesterday's Tomorrow show, God bless you. There are even two very exclusive, limited edition Yesterday's Tomorrow t-shirts floating around out there in the great unknown...
We played quite a few small shows under this name. A show case at the luxurious Xtreme Wheelz in fabulous downtown Hertel Avenue, numerous parties, numerous ACTS Beacon Cafe appearances, the Alden Farmer's Market, Rushford boat-dock events, and even my sister's wedding. There was even an evening where we demo'd two songs in Eric Froebel's (who engineered at Electric Lady Studios in NYC, and even recorded Yo-Yo Ma) basement. Unfortunately, those demos might be lost forever. We slaved away under this name and wrote just a couple of songs to eventually decide that we were sick of the band name.
I won't even tell you the other possibilities for a new band name. Once again, we ended up with another HORRIFUL name (yes I made up a word for it); Alone At the Movies. I am currently shaking my head.
Towards the end of our freshmen year we recorded our first 4 track release. At the time, it had no name. Ladies and gentlemen a quick drum roll, please.... We were ONCE AGAIN, fed up with our current band name. After the second night of recording, we were sitting at the 5-Star Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner and decided that we would change it for the final time.
LARRABE was born. Named after Alden High School band director and super-hero, William Larrabee. We decided to drop an 'e' in case he ever got really "ticked" off at us and wanted to sue us for some unknown reason (no such occurrences have happened, yet). Thanks, Mr Larrabee!
We had some new tracks in the works, a brand spankin' new name, BUT, we still didn't have a bass player. We had some fun with this. We had a middle schooler play with us for a while. Keep in mind we were freshmen and juniors in high school. I'll just leave that story to rest. Eventually, a God send, a complete miracle, out of sheer luck, Jeff posted an add on Craigslist (before the days of the notorious Craigslist killer), and we got a response from one Mr O'Shea.
Mr O'Shea was a drummer looking for another band to play with, and he noticed our add and responded, informing us that his son, Brendan, was a bass player. The connection was made instantly. It was a match made in heaven. We had finished our EP just prior to meeting him and were gearing up to release The Larrabe EP that October. He showed up to the practice and already knew our "hit song" Seattle. We were in utter joy. To this day, Brendan is one of the greatest things that have ever happened to Larrabe, and even to myself. He's one of the greatest people I've ever met, and one of the greatest friends that I will hold on to for dear life.
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