But enough about my strangely-wired brain. Let's talk about the band whose name is derived from this great town. Donora (the band) has overtaken Donora (the blue collar coal town) in fame, at least according to a Google search, and that's saying something, considering such folks as Stan Musial and Ken Griffey (senior AND Junior!) were born there. They're baseball players, in case you didn't know - and pretty good ones, in their respective days.
I'd heard a lot about the band, but hadn't really heard them until their CD release show on Friday. Fellow Pittsburgh rockers New Shouts were part of the celebratory concert, which made me that much more interested to attend and finally see what the hype was about. I was pleasantly surprised by the other opener, Way Yes from Columbus, and New Shouts brought Casey on stage during their set for a fun and catchy rendition of one of the tracks from Donora's new album (but we can't talk about that yet - it's a secret!).
"Photograph" is one of the tracks that jumps out at me from Donora's first album, which I picked up at the show. Their music is primarily lighthearted pop rock with some fun synths and loops, and this track is no different. However, if one wanted to read into the lyrics, one could surmise that there are underlying intonations regarding the fleeting nature of human existence and emotion. Change often comes (for good or bad), and we do well to cherish our experiences in memory, learn from the mistakes and look back on the good times to cheer us up in the bad times...
Not from the show I attended, but here's a live performance from a concert (which, unfortunately, I missed) earlier this summer:
"It was supposed to last forever
Every feeling we ever had
We said we'd remind each other
When we'd forgotten the lives
The lives we had..."
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