There are no photos from that day. There are memories: scooter rides, broomsticks used as microphone stands, and amplifiers small enough to fit in a backpack. We thought about just living and being friends and we would do anything to stay alive and stay friends, so much we loved doing it. Among the many things was playing music. We would listen to music together, taking turns buying records and then listening to them together, in the car, driving around randomly, for hours.
We didn't even dream of having merchandising or a website.
So we started writing this story, without anyone knowing how to play, without anyone having ever seen an instrument before. We met punk and fell in love with what it was telling. We were just like many teenagers, even though each of us carried burdens as heavy as boulders on our shoulders, together, however, everything was bearable.
And nobody knows that our first song was born in a hospital waiting room.
Twenty-one years have passed. Today those boys are men, but still friends. We've toured Europe telling our story while feeding off each other's stories, we've played the coolest clubs and festivals, we've met people who have become landmarks in our lives. But what music has given us, we cannot explain in words.
The world changes, we human beings change, and after giving everything for NH3, and maybe something more, we feel it is time to take a long break. We pause making our own all those beautiful emotions felt during this wonderful journey with in our eyes the endless landscapes seen and seen again from the windows of the van and then your faces at the concerts, your words, your support. No one expected European tours, no one expected to record albums and that's how it turned out, because music has the ability to tell everything you would like to believe in.
It was difficult, tiring, exhausting, irritating, risky, embarrassing, dangerous, crazy and, for that very reason, wonderful.
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