Something To Forget
Twenty-eight years ago this week my old band found ourselves at the beginning of a years-long dispute with Hot Water Music. Twenty-eight years later, no one is even really sure what happened.
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This wasn’t really planned, but by the time you read this, the show I’m about to tell you about will have just recently “celebrated” its 28th anniversary. I’ve searched the internet to find literally anything that might corroborate anyone’s versions of events, but in a somewhat improbable turn, I’ve been unable to find a single trace of its existence—which means that the only proof we have that any of this happened are the memories of the people who were there. And as it turns out, no one seems to remember the details in the exact same way. No one ever does. Which means that on March 15, 1996, any number of the following events may or may not have occurred.
As far as I remember it, our story begins early that morning when the members of Texas is the Re…