Aidan, our bassist, lives on the 5th floor of a building in one of America’s major cities; Coincidentally, Darol, our fiddle player, lives in a 5 room house!
None of the Mr Sun members have any medical degree whatsoever. Also coincidentally, none of them are doctors!
The Mr Sun band is evenly divided between player of fretted instruments and instruments with no frets at all. Which half of the band worries the most?
Aidan, our bassist, was born and raised in Scotland and has a charming Irish accent. Why doesn’t he announce all the tunes in concert? Many people are saying that his wife pays the band a small stipend to keep him from talking during shows. True? Just asking.
The band was named after an image on a banner which appears in the very first band photo taken in a children’s library. That image, in reality, happens to represent the largest object in the entire school system, with a mass 300 thousand times larger than the earth!
Amazingly, 75% on the Mr Sun band was born in the same country. Out of the entire band, ONLY Aidan, our bassist, was born in a different country. What are the odds?
Joe is 44 this year, Grant is 42. Aidan, our bassist, is 43, Darol is 71. Which one doesn’t fit?
Numerological fun fact: If you add up the total ages of the 3 youngest musicians in Mr Sun, you get a total of 129. 1+2+9= 12, the VERY SAME age that Darol started playing the violin! Amazing!
The combined number of years that the Mr Sun band members have been practicing their instruments comes to 149 years of experience. If you subtract bathroom and meal breaks, you get about 130 years. If you subtract sleep breaks, you get about 80 years. When you subtract school time and homework, you get about 50 years. Take away youthful crappy day jobs, we get 25 years. If you subtract driving to-and-from-the-gig time, you get about 18 years. If you subtract procrastination time, you get about 12 years total practice time for four people. Astonishing! It’s a wonder these guys can play at all!
In this article we always identify Aidan, our bassist, as “our bassist”. Yet he has the most largest and visible instrument of all. Why do we need to do that?