Everybody Needs A Sneyd
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
About 10 years ago I was in a band called Station to Station that was on its last legs. Mistakes were made, feelings were hurt, the band broke up, and in the end we were all lucky to eventually come out of the situation still friends. It took some time though. I remember being so young and thinking there was actually a chance that we could make something of ourselves. While I can’t speak for the rest of the guys, looking back now I can recognize that there’s an intangible devotion to “making it” that I certainly lacked (along with the ability to properly string and tune a guitar). While I still think we wrote some solid songs, Station to Station was missing that drive to become more than what we were which, at the end of the day, was but a semi-decent bar band. Luckily, I can end this particular paragraph saying that we all did in fact live “happily ever after”, even if we didn’t become rock stars.
It was around this dark time with delusions of grandeur that I met our drummer’s friend Luke Sneyd. Luke was a great singer and stellar guitarist, virtues I’d see in practice at a few jam sessions and watching him as a member of various bands. Flash-forward nearly a decade later and Luke is a hardworking musician who is driven to get his music out there. He released an album titled All Of Us Cities last year that’s a solid piece of musicianship. He’s also got a video out that I finally saw a completed version of and found really impressive. Luke’s worked his butt of with this record, he gigs regularly, and he’s been getting some great notices across the country and into the U.S. as well. He’s got a drive with his music that I could only have dreamt about, and I’d wager he tunes his own guitar as well. You can find out more about him here.
Check out Luke Sneyd’s video for The Prisoner below and then use SNEYD as today’s bonus code.