NOMEANSNO

For what it’s worth: I’ve been obsessed with music for as long as I’m been alive. It’s hard me to take anything about a song lightly. Most of my core memories involve a relative song or soundtrack. At the age of 3, I would press my ear to the clock radio when a song I loved came on and pitch a crying fit at it’s conclusion. My entire career and most of my social life has been tied to music. I’m not a casual listener and NOMEANSNO are one of my favorite bands.

My introduction to these Canadians came when my friend (Evil) Jay made me a high school mix tape including the songs “Rich Guns” and “Dead Souls”. I went on to purchase both the “MAMA” and “The Day Everything Became Nothing” albums. For a while, this was the extent of my NOMEANSNO collection. THEN…

In 1999 I was on tour with Jay’s band The Ladderback. We’d made our way from Raleigh, NC to Denver, CO at this point. After the show we ended up in a tiny beat up car with one of that night’s show’s attendees and they put in the “WRONG” cassette. The ride that followed is forever etched into my memory. I think we made it through 4 or 5 songs by the time we reached our destination; at which point I was convinced that this was one of the greatest bands to ever play rock music.

This is the “official” NOMEANSNO logo as created by NMN drummer and all around awesome guy John Wright.  –Charles Cardello/ Bifocal Media

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