However, for the first ten minutes, there wasn’t much show-watching going on, as I was taken over by all the sights and sounds of this awe-inspiring venue. I arrived just as newly-signed Strange Music artist Joey Cool was wrapping up, and promptly took a spot behind the soundboard to watch the show. Joey Cool performing at The Armory in Downtown Minneapolis – Photo Credit: Sara Fish Perfecting the process of getting people into the building in a timely manner is still a work in progress for everyone, but after some minor wait times, I was finally able to walk up the steps onto the floor of the venue.

This was the first time I’ve had the opportunity to attend a show since the remodeling of the historic building, and I was equally as excited to check it out. Sent there on assignment to cover a man, and a movement, that has had such a significant impact on the person I am today brought me great pleasure, and getting to shake the man’s (Travis O’Guin) hand who I’ve looked up to for nine years, was something special as well.Īs I approached the doors of The Armory, I was immediately taken aback by the size of the building itself. He performed for the first time at the newly renovated, and very impressive Armory in Downtown Minneapolis, a show in which I attended for the first time as a member of the non-paying public. On Saturday night, Tech N9ne and I both took one more step further in our careers. A more accurate statement would be “A large factor in my reasoning to get into the music industry is because the work Tech N9ne & Travis O’Guin did when starting Strange Music Inc.” To say that I’m a fan of his work would be an understatement. imprint and seen him perform eleven times in four different states. Since then, I have purchased over thirty albums released from his Strange Music Inc. I saw him perform live for the first time on June 4th, 2009 at a place called the Pearl Room just outside of Chicago.

I first heard Tech N9ne’s music just over nine years ago.

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