We will be collaborating with Twin Cities local music legend Sam Keenan.
I've known Sam for somewhere in the ballpark of 22/23 years?
When you were a kid, do you remember when you were friends with a someone and you thought their older sibling was the coolest person in the world? For me that was Sam.
He was one of those music prodigy kids who could sing, play guitar, piano, cello, and pretty much anything he got his hands on in a skilled and precise way. He is one of those guys where you are like "you're so talented that you suck!"
I spent my adolescence following Sam like a little puppy through the Twin Cities music scene during the nineties. Sam was always cool. He'd say I was with the band (Liquid Ernie) to the door guy or bartender so I could catch them and other local bands at venues I wasn't old enough to get into at the time. Now that I think about it, in the beginning of Liquid Ernie, Sam probably wasn't old enough to get into some of the venues they'd play either. I lost contact with Sam for quite a few years after they broke up.
A little over a year ago I was introduced to this phenomenon known as myspace.com. During a family get together my sister-in-law mentioned she had a profile on there and that it was a great tool to get into contact with people you've lost contact with. She told me about a bunch of people that we both knew that were on there. So I figured meh... why not look into it. I punched in my sister-in-law's myspace URL and I saw one of her friends was this guy:
Whoa! Sam's gotta myspace page! I saw that he had a show that night at Lee's. (landmark hole-in-the-wall in Minneapolis)
I went his show and was blown away by his music and spent sometime catching up with him. We started corresponding through myspace and I've caught a few of his shows over the last year, fast-forward to now, Sam will be engineering, mixing, and performing on the upcoming Crash Effect album. He may sit in on a few of our shows while we are in the studio with him.
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