Aaron on Nostr: In the early 2000s I was in a garage band while in high school. Ernie Ball was ...
In the early 2000s I was in a garage band while in high school.
Ernie Ball was putting on a Battle of the Bands with mp3 dot com and the winners got to play on the Ernie Ball stage at their local Warped Tour stop.
Each day when I got home from school I'd send messages to damn near every AOL user whose profile referenced music. This drove up our streams and we won our local competition. My friends and I, high school students, got to play at the Warped Tour.
Our Ernie Ball stage passes didn't entitle us to backstage access for the main stages... but that didn't stop us. We got to be onstage/backstage for a couple headlining acts. It's crazy to think about this 20+ years later.
Ernie Ball was putting on a Battle of the Bands with mp3 dot com and the winners got to play on the Ernie Ball stage at their local Warped Tour stop.
Each day when I got home from school I'd send messages to damn near every AOL user whose profile referenced music. This drove up our streams and we won our local competition. My friends and I, high school students, got to play at the Warped Tour.
Our Ernie Ball stage passes didn't entitle us to backstage access for the main stages... but that didn't stop us. We got to be onstage/backstage for a couple headlining acts. It's crazy to think about this 20+ years later.