Extra Innings from JAN’13
By Wassel Sounds
With the help of social media, mainly twitter (follow us @nashvillesounds) we’re able to connect with our fans & players like never before. At the beginning of each month, should content suffice, Sounds Bytes Blog will offer up some of the most amusing social discoveries from the month before.
So without further other delay, let’s head into the 10th!
10th Inning — The Well-Traveled Hat
via @stage_rad on Twitter, January 29, 3:28pm
Sean is a long-time guitar tech for Linkin Park and works in Greer’s backyard at Southbound Custom (a guitar repair and mod shop). He’s been rocking the Sounds all-red cap since 2003, taking the team’s brand to places as far as Moscow (pictured), Japan and Australia.
Needing to be quickly identified by lead guitarist Brad Delson stage right in between songs, Sean wears red caps to stand out. He started with quite a collection of the now discontinued lids, but after giving many away to fans on tour, he’s left with only eight in his possession, which is still more than us. Keep rockin’ Sean!
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11th Inning — Who are the Nashville Sounds?
via @musegirl83 on Twitter, January 30, 9:41pm
As soon as this photo entered the Twitterverse, with the caption: ‘My mom and The Nashville Sounds’, we just had to get the back story. It wouldn’t be too far-fetched to believe that these were minor leaguers in the ’70s staging a photo with a fan outside the bus before a long road trip, but it turns out these men weren’t baseball players at all.
Instead, this is none other than the country outfit ‘Myra Snyder and the Nashville Sounds’. The group’s heyday was in the ’80s, and when they weren’t shopping for matching hats, they were likely playing all the great country and western hits around Cincinnati. Perhaps with the national anthem auditions on the horizon, they would think about getting the band back together to play at Greer Stadium like the Nashville Sounds that we know and love.
12th Inning — TN’s Bill Murray Fan Club
via @jimhenderson29 on Twitter, January 30, 3:11pm
We knew RHP Jim Henderson (pictured middle) could close games. We gathered that as he collected 15 saves for the Sounds last year with a 1.69 ERA in 35 appearances before making his major league debut on July 26. But it wasn’t until January that we discovered Jim’s love for the ever-entertaining Bill Murray (and/or The Chive). And judging by this photo, his love for the man (or webpage) was contagious.
Related at the Juke Box: ‘One Step Closer’ by Linkin Park; ‘Ghostbusters’ by Ray Parker Jr.
