NeverWake Embarrassing Stories!
To get to know the band a little better, I (JB), will give you a little insight on our members. These are my funny stories and I am posting this without notifying the others so shhhh.....
- I grew up with Johnny D since I was 0. Saying that, there are a lot of fun facts that I could display about him, but one sticks out at the moment for reasons unknown. Like all little kids, bikes were the s***. We had to be about 10 or 11. I had a trick bike because I thought I was so cool when I was a tike. Johnny D comes out one day with his brand new trick bike. Ya know, the ones with pegs on the wheels. Front and back. The cool thing to do with pegs is stand on the while riding your bike. (Not sure why that's cool?) So we go riding down this hill in our neighborhood. Johnny D is behind me and we are both being the cool kids, dominating the block, riding on our back pegs of our trick bikes. Johnny says "Hey what if we stood on the front pegs while riding down the hill?" "That's a bad idea because you will have no control of it." Seconds later, down goes Johnny D after attempting to ride on his front pegs....... Falls in front of this guy watering his flowers by the street. Gets soaked. Cut up and soaked.
- I met George in high school through Johnny D and Marcus. George's fun fact is the least bit fun for him. Geo is a mechanically inclined person, but his luck with things are worst. For the 5 or so years I've known Geo and since he's been in NeverWake, he has been through about 5 cars. I show up to practice and it's a game guessing if Geo is there yet or not because there is a new car there every day. His newest car is in working condition so let's all say a quick prayer that this one stays suitable for a longer period of time than expected. This brings me to phones. Looking through Johnny D's phone one day trying to call Geo, I saw probably 10 "Geo" numbers labeled something like 1-10. He lives out of reach of service so he texts us at his house with his 60 iPod's so we never know which one to text. He has had at least 3 or 4 phones in the last 5 years and no body knows what the hell he does to these things. Everyone group of friends always has the unlucky one and needless to say Geo is that exactly.
- I am telling this little gem of a story from all of the stories I've heard about the event. So. Johnny D and Marcus went to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh after graduating high school. Freshman year of college. The best time of your life. Actually, before I start this story, I'd like to say that we are all responsible, mature people who... ya know.. like to have a few drinks now and then. Not by any means are we a group of alcoholics or any of that just to get the point across. ANYWAY! So it's freshman year. Our roadie Jordan went to visit Johnny and Marcus at their dorm. Pre-gaming for the night out with a bottle of Jack (or Jager? - some whisky i suppose), Marcus, Johnny, Jordan, and others were probably headbanging to metal and slugging down the bottle. Needless to say, Marcus's pre-game actually turned out to be his game.....and extra innings.....plus more. He probably made it to the end of the season if you catch my drift. So the respectable decisions by everyone obviously was to get Marcus water and lay him down on his bed. Walking out of the room for a while, they hear a big bang and go back to Marcus to find him laying on the floor with blood on his forehead. He fell out of his bed which was only 4 feet off the ground and his face broke his fall. Johnny and Jordan were probably saying a bunch of cuss words at the moment. So as the story goes, Johnny D and Jordan concoct make-shift stitches out of Bounty paper towels and duct tape. Marcus wakes up the next morning with a chuck out of his head. Marcus is the real chosen one! Harry Potter is a fraud!
- For this post only, I will let my dignity slip. Just once! So I'm about to graduate at Ohio University - the argued #1 party school in America. OU has one of the biggest Halloween parties in the US and with Halloween being our favorite holiday, naturally I invite the band and some friends down. *Side note, I am over the "getting wasted on weekends of college" stage but every college kid experiences some things they regret. Late on my costume selection, the day before Halloween I get my costume. A Lady Bug to be "that guy". GOODBYE MANLINESS! Too many beers later we are walking around the streets of OU around midnight with thousands of other college kids. For some reason, I stumble upon a cardboard cut out of a PacMan Ghost. I say to myself "I'm 100% putting this on." Now I am morphed into a Lady Bug/PacMan Ghost? Long story short, we stop to get a burrito and I spill its contents all over the Ghost's face. I scream "I HAVE PUKE ON MY FACE!" Even though it wasn't puke, it looked dead on. I stumble into Buffalo Wild Wings and scream "I HAVE PUKE ON MY FACE". About 20 dirty looks later, I decided to leave. I hate being the center of attention, but this night I was "That Guy" unfortunately. After re-reading this post, this story is definitely a "you had to be there story"! Just imagine me in a Lady Bug costume with a PacMan Ghost cut-out on my chest with burrito insides on it...... (Yes....I'm currently shaking my head)
Well, I hope this turned out to be a little entertaining for all of you SleepWalkers. These are just some funny stories that I will probably get yelled at for showing to the public. We are a serious, hard working band, but I figured showing a little embarrassment would be good entertainment aside from our music! Stay metal and keep headbanging, SleepWalkers!!!
