Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 30 : Fall 2016 | Page 31

L to R: Josh Kovach, Shane Mountain, Brian Mosher and Doug Cronkhite AKA Common Crossing

were not complaining. Word got to our former bass
player that we were playing shows and he claimed
that making the trip north once a month was not out
of the question. By this time we kind of knew what
we were doing. We knew the kind of equipment we
needed. The songwriting had improved. The chops
were there and so was the desire.
Our resurrection really began in 2009. We bought a
sound system and a trailer and we didn’t look back.
We made a list of all of our favorite original songs and
went into the studio to record. In 2010 we released
our debut album “Seeing the Light of Day.” In 2011
we added a hot young guitarist and became a four
piece. We even had a roadie. Matt Turnbull was the
engineer behind packing all of that junk into the
trailer. Matt was our defacto sound man. Matt was
our gopher. Matt was our friend and brother. We lost
him in a tragic auto accident in 2012. We play the “St.
Matty’s Day” fundraiser to support the Matt Turnbull

Livin’ the Dream Scholarship fund, established by his
family.
We developed a following through our performances.
We will be the first to admit that we are not the greatest
musicians by any stretch, but we sure know how to
have fun with a crowd. What a lot of people don’t
know about this band is that we don’t rehearse, ever.
That’s not a conceited statement, we never have the
opportunity. Our “hot young guitarist” and our bass
player live hours away. We’ll talk about what songs
to try and show up at the gig, prepared or not. If the
song doesn’t work at sound check, we don’t do it.
Before we knew it, twenty years had come and gone.
Because we never broke up, we consider 2016 to be
our 20th anniversary. We’re still having fun playing
rock and roll the same way we always have. There is
another album or two in our future, if we can find
time to finish writing it. A rehearsal would be fun
now and then.
FALL 2016

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