Thomas Hutchings:  

You probably remember me as a band geek that directed the Marching & Pep band and played some saxophone and soccer and stuff. I'm still a band geek. It just has a little more cache now than it does in high school for some reason. I didn't really have a sense of direction after High school, but I knew that I like entertaining people and making music. I was studying saxophone at Boise State and found out that I had some need to be someplace where I could really hone my talent, but looking back at it, I really just needed someplace where I could get lost in the crowd and find my own unique voice. I was playing in a band called The Rhythm Mob in Boise and the lead singer, Jake Stigers, had moved to New York , so the band lost momentum and I needed some sort of change. I visited my good friend, Jake Stigers, in May '95 and decided to move to New York City because it was just amazing. There was some much of every possible thing that you could imagine. It still blows my mind once in a while. I moved in with Jake's Mom for a few months to save and played gigs and worked at the Power bar factory and saved up about 1200 bucks and flew out with my sax and some clothes and slept on Jake's floor until I found a job and some gigs. I ended up playing with a Band called The Niagaras for a few years, then Milo ...Expand for more