OLD DOMINION: COMMENTARY ON GETTING BACK TO “NORMAL” AND MUSIC POST PANDEMIC (Audio)
OLD DOMINION: COMMENTARY ON GETTING BACK TO “NORMAL” AND MUSIC POST PANDEMIC (Audio)
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MATTHEW RAMSEY: You know, not to get too deep, but it like felt personally, like we had worked really hard for a really long time to make this happen. And we got as big as we, you know, as we could get at that moment. And then the rug sort of got ripped out from under us with all of this. So then there was no, you know, there was no daily reminder that we were doing good. You know, those shows were where people were showing up and buying tickets and T shirts and singing the songs. And that’s how we really gauged our success. So then everything shut down stopped. And it was like man, are we even a band anymore? Like they just felt so strange. I remember… I was taking a walk. This was like, I don’t know, like eight months into the lockdown. And I was taking a walk and this car pulls a U turn and pulls up to me and she’s like, ‘what are you doing?’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean? What am I doing?’ And she was like ‘you’re just out here taking taking a walk.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah,’ and I just completely forgot that I was maybe a recognizable person. I just hadn’t happened in a really long time. So, yeah, it is a little bit of like, I hope people come back to us.
