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All Of The Emotion With Which
By joseexist in Musings On Muses
May 12, 2010

All of the emotion with which Legasys made music back in the day is still entrenched deep within the recesses of my soul. The camaraderie and fervor is still as bright a light as it has ever been. We composed with youthful angst and abandon. We played with conviction and undeniable satisfaction. We got the vibe from audiences that what we were doing mattered then, and that it would still matter far into the future no matter what happened.

We did not disband in any sense of the word. Rather, we went our ways one by one. The core of the group held on for as long as possible but the winds of the future gained strength and blew the final splinters away like so many bull-thistle seeds. Despite the final strenuous gasps, not one of us went away without looking back. To this day any former band mates I have talked to still have that spark in their voices and that high from the music is still perpetuating itself.

I have recorded a handful or more of that old material and completed some songs the band never had the chance to. I’m still looking thru my collection for some old practice sessions we’d captured on cassette tape with an assortment of boom-boxes. Some are full band sessions and some are just guitars and bass with vocals. I once wired a walkman (cassette) up and feed it into a digital studio. It turned out rather noisy but it did do the job of preserving what I wanted to save from analog recordings. Now all I have to do is find those data discs.

Revisiting what to me is historically the birth of Legasys brings all that emotion back up and into sharp focus. The way we interacted to create music was a blessing to each and every one of us. Even secondary band members took an active part in the structuring of our songs and wrote for us as well. Friends from other groups would drop in on practices to jam with us and we never shut anybody out for any reason. We were brothers in song and within us, the legend lives on.