Is This The Life

A few nights ago I was reminded of something from 30 years ago. Nothing unusual in that, I guess. Unless you are under the age of thirty three. Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s I was in a band. Not a successful band. Not a band that played to thousands of adoring fans, night after night. We didn’t even play to adoring fans, occasionally. We didn’t play live. We didn’t have any adoring fans. But, I was in a band, none the less. The band was called ‘Mystery Incorporated’. The name was taken from Scooby Doo.  In case you didn’t know, the ‘gang’ in the cartoon were called ‘Mystery Incorporated’, hence they drove around in the ‘Mystery Mobile’. Certainly they were on a non-Hanna Barbera endorsed album called ‘Scooby Doo and The Snowman Mystery’ that I owned as a child. It is this album and the opening theme that inspired our band's name: Anyway. Back to the band. It wasn’t a big band. Just the two of us. Me and James. Duo. We wrote songs. Some we...