This blog will about two of my passions, one old and one rediscovered. I will try to make comments as often as I can. With my school schedule being somewhat variable, I will try to post at least once a week, maybe more during slow weeks. We'll see what happens.
The old is science, and genetics in particular. I will be putting up links to, and adding some commentary on, all the cool stuff that's happening in science these days.
The rediscovered is my rediscovered interest in playing music. I played the bass a lot in high school, but really only for basketball pep band and with the jazz band. Recently though, 3 friends and I started a band called Helix Turn Helix and the Major Groove. As one friend pointed out, that sounds like a band from the 70's, maybe like Sly and the Family Stone. If that's who we're compared with, I'm cool with that.
Anyway, my friend Alon signed up sometime in November to play a gig in January as a fundraiser for South Park, a free clinic that is run by UConn Medical School students. However, he didn't have a band to play with. In December, AD, AW, JW and I started tossing around the idea of playing together, and started to come up with songs we could play. One thing led to another, and Helix Turn Helix and the Major Groove was born.
We played our first show on January 21st at a local watering hole called Murphy and Scarletti's. Because of the recent earthquake in Haiti, we worked with a school group to raise money to support the relief efforts. The show went really well, and we played before another UCHC band, Bootleg Radio. Hopefully we will have more shows in the future, and we can write some of our own music this summer. Here's some pictures from the show!
Thanks for reading!
Anyway, my friend Alon signed up sometime in November to play a gig in January as a fundraiser for South Park, a free clinic that is run by UConn Medical School students. However, he didn't have a band to play with. In December, AD, AW, JW and I started tossing around the idea of playing together, and started to come up with songs we could play. One thing led to another, and Helix Turn Helix and the Major Groove was born.
We played our first show on January 21st at a local watering hole called Murphy and Scarletti's. Because of the recent earthquake in Haiti, we worked with a school group to raise money to support the relief efforts. The show went really well, and we played before another UCHC band, Bootleg Radio. Hopefully we will have more shows in the future, and we can write some of our own music this summer. Here's some pictures from the show!
Thanks for reading!
