TRILLIUM
So how did this band show up on my “want” list in the first place? I was having dinner at a nice restaurant in Winston-Salem with my parents (and maybe some of my brothers and sisters – not sure, it’s been so long); it had been converted from an old house, and I remember sitting right next to a staircase. There was a band there playing for the patrons, and they were quite good. At one point, they said, this is from one of our albums, and it sort of clicked in my mind: oh, yeah, those guys, I’ve seen their albums. It was a long time before I actually found one, but the name that I remembered from that meal was “Trillion”. Clearly, though, I wasn’t listening to a progressive rock band at dinner that night! For one thing, there was a woman in the band that I saw. I have been puzzling over what I could have heard instead – Trillium maybe? I’ll probably never figure it out, but I sure got onto a good album with that case of mistaken identity.
(October 2012)
