08/20/10 - The end of an era

As many of you may know TTU has all lived together in the same house for a little over two years now. Some of you may have even seen the article in the Sun News lifestyle section about us all sharing one roof. The story was about how amazing it was that four grown men could live and work out of the same household while still being able to function as business partners and more importantly friends. What the article didn't state was we were already making plans to go our separate ways, with our living situation.

In the last two years I know personally I have made many new friends from living in the inlet and our neighborhood. Some of the best times I have had (yet!) came from Edward Ave. From our block party that brought over 500 people to the neighborly cookouts that happened on a weekly basis, and the rock star Easter Sunday dinner with our good friends Tru Sol. I look back at just a few of those awesome memories and all I can think is sometimes you just don't realize how good you got it till it's gone. Yes it is hard to be grown and living like you are still in college and being forced into someone's personal business without a choice because there is no room for complete privacy. Or one of my personal favorites when you have been at each others throats all day to hoping up on stage and smiling ear to ear like there is no problem in the world. It's been a long time coming for a change some realizing it more than others.


So it is on to the next chapter for TTU and our days of all living together are in the past. Who knows maybe one day people will visit MI to drive past the Ten Toes Up house, just like people flock to Height and Ashbury where the Grateful Dead lived for years. One thing I've started to figure out in my older years is sometimes positives can come from turmoil and differences. I have noticed lately everyone is genuinely happy to see one another when it's time to work weather it be practice or play. Only good can come from that as far as I'm concerned. New life will flourish in this band of brothers and our new direction of the greater good is an unstoppable force that drives us. Creating art, emotion, and style through music while making great friends along the way is why we are here in the first place.
Duh!

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