I made an update to the MySpace bio of my former band, SUMO. It’s a pretty meaningful thing to me and represents a personal milestone so I thought I’d share it:
“SUMO was a band from 1997 to 2007. Then, owing to diminished creative impetus and the mounting forces of entropy, it ended. No one was happy about it but that’s just how things go sometimes. We all still get along and music is still being made, just under different guises.
If you want the corny, pathetic truth SUMO was about love the whole time: love of being swept up in the current of sound, love of the reciprocal energy between the stage and the crowd, love of friends, love of the people who gave us time, attention, effort and a place to be, love of trying to always do good work, love of what we learn and love of the most alive moments we can possibly manifest.
Today is July 24, 2008 and I am finally able to write this.
Thank you for everything.
-Jon”
SUMO was a really important part of my life both personally and creatively and it’s taken a while to get to the point where I can reflect on it with a sense of clarity.
