Where it began is relative, obtuse and somewhat hard to pinpoint with regard to, you know, four guys playing music together - but a start, well that’s a horse of a different color and that story always begins with john who married jessica (that’s important later) and by virtue of the way back machine we can see that back in the day when everyone had big hair, brian and john went to school together and played in a smart little combo entertaining the garage walls with pump and thump but then what with years and distance even though the light may have dimmed, the candle still burned bright so that some time later jessica worked in the same salt mine as billy and they (that is jessica and billy) spoke from time to time about how john played some very dangerous percussion and seeing how billy played keyboards boyhowdie that might be cool - you know, a band and everything..

...the idea of which must have been dancing around in john’s mellon when one night at a party (that later no one can clearly remember) the chit chat between john and danny turned to what ifs and maybes and everyone went home to sleep in their own bed with no sugarplums cavorting in their heads and then brian’s phone when he answered had john on the other end with a time and a place - a destination - and with several calls that far exceeded harassment billy and danny were urged to join in the reindeer games at the appointed time and place wherein an open mic led to a session with questions that could only be answered by getting together again - only this time with more beer - so they did (get together that is) and that brightly burning candle lit a fire that burns to this day. Toledo Kesch hopes that the fire makes it a little warmer and brighter where you are...

And that’s all the band is willing to admit...