Punk Rock is "Contagious"

When I'm Ready

So for those who don't know, I was in a Punk Rock band during my high school years. It was a fun time. We called ourselves Contagious. At first, I'll admit, we were pretty terrible. But as we progressed as a band we came into our own. I've always regretted that the last several songs that we wrote didn't get recorded because they were some of our best material.

It all started when me and my best/life-long friend Chris Lee began to learn how to play the guitar. The Bible says that as iron sharpens iron so does one man sharpen another, and I think that applies to all areas of our lives, even learning the guitar and writing music. Looking back I think we pushed and challenged each other to get better. Soon drummer, Marc, and bassist, Matt, came into the picture and we had ourselves a band.

We soon came to the conclusion that in order to be a "real band" we needed to write our own music. So we did. And seeing how we were only 16 we wrote about the two most important things in our lives, Jesus and.......girls. The song above is called "When I'm Ready" it's kind of about both.

The biggest take away I had from my experience with Contagious was the bond, the brotherhood created within the context of a band. I think since then any band I've been apart of, worship related or not, I've tried to nurture that same aspect. Mainly because it's such an awesome thing to experience and be apart of(same goes for my River Hills musicians!)

The top picture was our promo with drummer, Marc, and below we have a picture of a concert we played on the beach-front with our second drummer, Patrick. Miss those days...