Twenty years ago I spawned a would-be rock group labeled Myndsi. Now I know that in the 21st century there's actually a myndsi blog. Apparently I'm not the only one who likes to jerk with spelling. But during the Ray-gun administration, we were the only Myndsi that I'd ever heard of.
Despite our pouty demeanor, we were actually pretty tame, bookish sorts. The group was started by my high school chum, aka Lucky, and his brother, aka Jonesy. Soon thereafter, we integrated someone who was actually trying to learn music in a guitarist aka Arius Knight. Yes, you read that correctly. We were just an air band. But we took it very seriously.
I was called Xavier Q, and I was typically the lead vocalist. Because Lucky had also tried (also unsuccessfully) to learn guitar, he played guitar parts pretty effectively--as did Arius. We actually filmed a few "concerts", then faded into oblivion.
When I went to college for the first time, I met a hyper-leftwing punk fan who ached to be affiliated with someone else who could play role-playing fantasy games and rock. I came pretty close to that level, and I too was a social outcast. His name was Nick Fear. We formed Myndsi II, though we never called it that.
This time around, he was the singer and I was the guitarist. I picked up my dusty guitar and strummed a few notes. But I sounded as terrible as ever, so my attempts were short-lived. When he met a bass player who was WAY out there, he drifted away from Myndsi. Whilst that's not the whole story, the messy bits and pieces are long and drawn out.
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