So I had an album on here with pictures of my favorite band, Adrenalyn. I just deleted it. They were so awesome! The drummer was a girl who wasn't even as big as my 10 year old son and she could kick ass! The bass player was her boyfriend, he was quiet when you first met him but once you got to know him, he really opened up and had a great sense of humor. His standard dedication to me was "Psycho" by Puddle of Mudd. The guitar player was so incredibly talented and so twisted! He would often play an entire set wearing a mask of some kind. The latest was a "Jason" from Friday the 13th one. And the lead singer, he was my favorite. The rest of the band looked like they belonged in a rock band, piercings, tattoos, black hair. They just looked the part. But Craig was so normal and down to earth. And damn he's cute too! He had a voice that was so incredible it just gave me the shivers. I followed that band everywhere! Everytime there was a show and I didn't have my kids, I would go see them. They usually played around Pottsville, but I went as far as Hazelton to see them. I took hundreds and hundreds of pictures of them and put them all up on my myspace page.
Friday night I went to see them in Pottsville. I knew that things were kinda rough for them. Craig is going to school in addition to working full time and renovating his house. Plus he has 2 teenage kids and recently got remarried. When I saw him Friday night, he looked so down. We'd been talking a lot lately via email (yeah, I gave him my phone number but he's a good married guy and wouldn't call me - but we still flirt and have a great friendship and know where we stand) and I knew that he was going thru some pretty bad times. I just felt like I would have done anything to make him smile. I'd have walked over hot coals barefoot. I did end up giving him a backrub I've been told that I should give up my career as a dental assistant and become a massage therapist!) The whole time that he wasn't on stage, he sat with me and we talked. He's such a nice guy.
Anyway, when I logged onto my myspace page today, there was a bulletin up from the band saying that they had a new lead singer. I was so pissed! I wrote to Craig and asked him what happened, wrote a bitchy email to the guitar player (who I have a better relationship with than the other 2 band members). I felt really bad for Craig because today is his birthday. But he seems ok with it. he still sounds sad though and I'd still do anything to make him smile.
I just feel like a chapter of my life has closed. They were the first band that I ever got attached to and followed. Ok, maybe I'm too old to be a groupie, but I was with my ex husband since I was 19. I never got to go out and have fun. They always called me their #1 fan and at just about every show, they would make a point of thanking me for coming out to see them and do a song for me. The first time they ever did a song for me it was "I want you to want me" and ever since when they would sing it, I always knew that Craig was singing it just for me. He's sweet like that.
So they have a new lead singer but they have lost their #1 fan. Does that make me petty? Yes, Craig was my favorite but I really did like them all. They had a special magic about them, the way they played off each other and worked together. Throwing another singer into the mix isn't going to be the same. They won't be Adrenalyn anymore.
So now I'm sad. Maybe this seems stupid to everyone who is reading this, but they were important to me.
