Debut Night at The Pond
Every band gets exactly one first show. Ours was July 11 at The Pond, and we are still a little stunned at how it went.
The Pond has been Franklin's dive bar since 2005. Low ceiling, somewhere north of a thousand tap handles hanging over your head, and a crowd of regulars who will tell you exactly what they think of you. Room holds ninety. We watched it fill up and then keep filling, until there was nowhere left to stand.
Nobody in that room had heard us play a note. They showed up anyway. That is not a small thing for a band with no history to point at.
Three hours, 21 and up, and a set pulled straight from what we grew up on. Nirvana, Sublime, Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Green Day, Weezer, Megadeth, Stone Temple Pilots, 3 Doors Down, and a good stack more. Parts of it were sharp. Parts of it were held together with tape and nerve. All of it was loud, and we would not trade a second.
Thank you to The Pond for handing a brand new band a Saturday night, and to everyone who took a chance on a name they had never seen before.
Played at The Pond, 595 Hillsboro Rd #321, Franklin TN · @pondinfranklin