Teresa Filice

AASHIN writer

Okay, so I went to college in Seattle, which is a huge music town. And not as much when I was a first year, but especially in my third and fourth years of college, especially because by my senior year, I wasn’t an RA anymore. I was living off campus, so we would go see live music all the time. And obviously, you know, living in Capitol Hill, which at the time was a little bit different. But that’s kind of where grunge and alternative music really exploded.

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So we were at these little clubs called pneumos, and the Common Tavern and just be around really awesome bands. And, you know, their floor was sticky with beer and I’m sure other substances and you’d be packed in and you could talk to the bands afterwards. So there’s one of my favorite bands, it’s still active, Rogue Wave. They’re from Oakland and they just had an album come out and my friends and I went, and

I loved them. And I got the nerve to go talk to them. And they were super friendly. And, you know, I mean, now I’m older, and I honestly don’t think I can stay awake late enough for some of these shows that would start at midnight, but it was so visceral and so fun.

And that was something I really remember is living in Capitol Hill and just going to see these amazing, amazing shows. Also, I did see Macklemore, if y’all know who that is, before he was a thing. Even then I was like, I don’t know about this. But anyway, that’s when I was at a festival back when I lived in Arizona