So Grey the Sky.......

i dont know what it was...I remember seeing them in an ad in "Propaganda" magazine way back when...probably at my friend Patricia's house who was the first one I knew to get the magazine...{and the FIRST place I ever saw/heard the word GOTH...... REALLY I mean it WAS pre-internet..REMEMBER?!?!?!?} I suddenly became enamoured with them...well.... with their look initally...it was spooky...but accessible...just 4 kids from Jersey  Gothing their hearts out.....So i searched and searched for their record {again...no Google...no Yahoo...no Ebay}.....Until i finally found it at "It's Only Rock and Roll" on 8th street......it was like I found the Holy Grail......and the music was just what i wanted it to be....dramatic and electronic....spooky and moody....with an a sound similar to the band that their name came from ...{"Screaming for Emaline" by gene Love Jezebel}...but so much more...to me at least.....

They were the first band I kinda became obsessed with to the point of searching down their record...and the first band I would play for people in a ..."Hey have you heard of these guys...???" kind of way....and if I came across their record i would buy it and give it to someone who I liked......or who I knew loved music like I did...they became a Litmus test...for friends...and for other bands that came after.....They were legend....

Then as the internet came I FINALLY was able to procure their mysterious 45 that I had heard about.....{Grey the Sky}.....as well as FINALLY getting to see them in '06 at the "Drop Dead Festival"...So it 

all came full circle...i told the guys how much they meant to me.....and how we found a promo shot in the sleeve with the keyboardists number on it and used to call him back in the day and just hang up for fear of what to say...{I found out it was his HOME number...embarassing...} it was nice to finally meet them...and tell them what they meant to me.....

and I heard them last night at "Salvation" when Patrick spun them and it took me back...and I was 16 again.,..spinning around in my room...dreaming of someplace I could go to really dance with other people...where I could get dressed up and be myself....where I could shut the world out for awhile and just be me.....heh....if i only knew back then......

XOXO

{the article that started it ALL...}