ION INDIE MAGAZINE August 2015, Volume 15 | Page 118

Like I said--I know a good band when I hear them! I never judge a book by its cover anymore…
MM: How did the name blindspot come about?
Chris: We had gone through several
names, none of which we were
really happy with, so one day we
decided we’ll just leave it up to
chance. We opened up a
psychology textbook to a
random page, pointed to a word,
and it happened to be the word
“blind” and I immediately
thought “blindspot”.
Alexa: We decided to use all
lowercase
letters
for
"blindspot", including the "b."
MM: Tell me about your musical
backgrounds,
education,
training, previous bands, etc…
Chris: My dad has always played
piano around the house, so I
picked it up from him. I started
taking lessons in the 6th grade
and switched over to guitar when
I was a junior in high school. I was
in a few Metal bands in high school, but blindspot has been my main focus since then. I’m currently in the music program at
UMass Lowell, where I study sound recording and Jazz guitar.
Alexa: I really didn’t start singing until blindspot, which was the beginning of my freshman year of college. I have been playing
guitar since I was 8, but singing was just kind of a fun thing to do when I played guitar and I never took it seriously. Once we
started gigging more, I began taking voice lessons and have since spent a lot of time getting to know my voice, expanding my
range, and working on my pitch.
Adam Miller: As far as music goes, I’ve been playing instruments since I was in 3rd grade. Granted, when I was younger I was
just playing the violin (quite badly, I might add). While I wasn’t the greatest at it, playing it did teach me a lot about music
theory, how to read sheet music, etc. I first started playing the drums in 2007, when my really good friend Gavin approached
me during a free period at school one day and we had this conversation:

Him: “Hey, do you want to start a band?”
Me: (without looking up from what I’m doing) “Yeah, sure”
Him: “Okay, I’ll play guitar, I guess.”
Me: “Sweet. Drums sound cool-- I’ll play those.”
So it was decided that I would be the drummer for our super cool Rock band, SIMPLE HEROES (blech). I didn’t take formal
lessons for around a year, before which I was learning just from watching YouTube videos of famous drummers and practicing
with some drum sticks I borrowed from my high school’s music department and using my pillow as a practice pad.
Unfortunately, Simple Heroes never materialized since I didn’t realize that Gavin had said it as a one-off whim, and wasn’t
really serious about it. Regardless, turns out I really liked playing the drums, so I stuck with it. My first real band wasn’t until
college, where I sta 'FVB