Don't go with the flow

Once upon a time there was this local metal band where I grew up and me and my friends went to every single show they played for the longest time. We got their demo CD from the music store they would eventually play their first show at; burned at their apartment, complete with that HP LightScribe art on the front of it. But it was like finding the holy grail for us back then. So naturally we couldn't turn down seeing them play live for the first time ever. I think they had four original songs and they played a couple covers of cheesy 80s metal stuff... their music was fucking awesome though. Teenage me was definitely a metalhead. They're who inspired me to start playing bass and, eventually, move to the guitar. I've been playing ever since. I still play some of their riffs whenever I pick up a bass. After they'd been around for a couple years, they were doing a show at a bigger venue where some big highfalutin record executive came to hear them play, but their frontman was absolutely…