Aug 17 2008
Middle-aged men remember glorious youth
(Cornersville, Tennessee) Just another lazy Sunday afternoon and the members of Chinese Eyes are sitting around a basement reminiscing. What you’ve never heard of Chinese Eyes? Well, if didn’t attend Cornersville High School in the early 1980’s, then it is unlikely that you have heard of them. But as Bud Thompson, lead guitarist of Chinese Eyes, remembers it, Chinese Eyes was the coolest high school band anywhere near Marshall County. “Yeah man, we we really the shit back then,” recalls Thompson.
“Yeah man, do you remember when we rocked everyone out at the Senior Fling?” Thompson asks his buddies. A round of laughter rolls through the room as the members of Chinese Eyes recall the glorious performances from their senior year of high school. “Man it was so freaking hilarious to hear the Principal announce us at the senior talent show, that poor fool didn’t even know that Chinese Eyes was what we used to call being high,” laughed Thompson. As fellow band members shouted out “Man, did we smoke a lot of weed back then.” But as the laughter dies down Thompson and his band mates grow silent as the fond memories of their younger years are replaced by the realization that those might have been the best years of their lives. Before the gleam leaves his eyes Thompson shares, “How I wouldn’t like to be back there right now, smoking dope and rocking out, man those were the days.”
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