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Light of Day
Hushlo
TOC
My name is Pam Stephens and I am currently enrolled at Lake
Washington Institute of Technology. I am in the Business
Technology program where I plan to have an associate’s degree
by June 2015. I had long road to get where I am right now,
with jobs in food service, retail, and manufacturing.
I started playing bass in the mid 80’s, when bands had big hair
and acid wash jeans with big holes in them in order to show
the black spandex pants underneath. I immediately started
playing music from bands like: Rush, Led Zeppelin, The Police,
Kansas, and Yes. This is where I learned about playing melody
and rhythm on the bass. Fortunately, I had a live in drummer
who was insanely good and loved to jam at any time. I
practiced all the time and before I knew it, I could actually
play all of the songs that seemed out of my reach just the
month before. I have been lucky enough to have played with
many other musicians and every time I played with someone
new to me, I learned that much more.
We formed the band “Hushlo” in Thomaston, GA during the
90’s. We performed all over the region, and also played at the
'96 Olympics in Atlanta in front of over 20,000 people. We did
get radio and television exposure as well. We had a great run
for several years. We wrote the song “Light of Day”, and like
many other songs we’d written, we were jamming in our
practice house and it just came together. Once we had the
music down, Brian came back with some vocals and it all just
fell into place. “Light of Day” is a hard driving, syncopated
song that goes from a whisper to a scream. The smooth,
melodic vocal on top of the driving music, creates an