Music Nation is a Music Video Competition for Independent Artists

I still can't quite recall what dizzying heights of hallucination I was flying through as I first heard that tender yet toxic, sweet group of chords that would become the Rez song "Puddles." I was hanging my head in practical delirium as Dave, in typical Dave fashion, quietly disappeared into a corner to make love to a guitar. He was plugged into Sammy's amp so I could hear him just enough to have my consciousness ripped from its travels and utterly absorbed in those beautiful sounds. I ran frantically to my bass as if the fate of the universe depended on it, and at the time, it did. I joined in on bass, Bong jumped on the conga set, Steve manned the kit, Johnny Blaze grabbed his trumpet and Pat wailed on the keys. No one can be sure if the jam went on for three hours or three lifetimes, but in that moment an unbreakable musical and spiritual bond was forged betwixt that group of people which has never ceased to call us higher. That is the moment that I consider the beginning of The Rez.