So yes, everyone take comfort in the fact that we are not alone in the universe. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Our fastest manned vehicle was Apollo 10, which traveled at something like 25,000 mph. Reports have come in that a planet 600 light years away is as far away from its sun as we are from our own, but it would take 600 years to get there if we could travel the speed of light, and we're technologically not even close. In order for a rocket to reach the second-nearest star to us (Alpha Centauri), it would require more energy than that which is available on the entire planet Earth.
The only problem is that solar systems are too far apart for them to have any contact with each other. You either locked yourself in your bedroom until you could play Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones the whole way through, or you didn't.Ĭonsidering the vastness of the universe, extra-terrestrial intelligence isn't a pipe dream - it's a statistical inevitability. I don't care what your gender, race, religion etc. Cherry Valence was one of those bands that made rock and roll worth it.Īnother interesting thing about this band was that their guitarist - Cheetie Kumar - raised the bar for women that play guitar in rock bands. You can always tell which venues are owned and operated by musicians in how they treat touring bands - no matter how small your band was, there'd be people there and a deli tray. They even owned a club in Raleigh called King's Barcade that had live bands and an old-school arcade.
These dudes (and one lady) could probably recite every lyric to every song on the first Grand Funk Railroad album backwards, while drunk AND asleep. By that I don't mean they got into music by listening to Weezer and kind of pretended to rock. But then, if that were the case, what would I write about? In a just world, every accolade that was heaped upon undeserving bands like the Strokes would have gone to this band. Around 1998 or so, a trickle came from down south up I-95 by the name of Cherry Valence. There must have been something in the water in North Carolina in the 1990's.
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