"The me that you know, he used to have feelings..."
Great song, dham. I believe I briefly explained my story when NBN brought up the Terence Trent D'Arby lyric in another thread. Ah, I like the full story though.
So, how did one Terry Blastenbrei of St. Louis become a tree? It's rather simple.
Sycamore is the name of the musical project that I started in 1993, of which I was the primary songwriter and vocalist. Don't ask where the name came from...it just sounded cool. Sound--think "Psalm 69"-era Ministry meeting a hokey drum machine. The whole Sycamore project consisted of two (very bad) recordings in 1993 and 1995, one (bad) performance at a school theatre guild party in 1994, and two appearances on KDHX 88.1 FM in St. Louis in 1993 (The station is listener-supported. A buddy of mine had an alternative show on Thursday afternoons...we came on and sang the theme to "Small Wonder."). I keep threatening to resurrect it, but I wouldn't fit well in a band, and I'm really only interested in doing spoken word these days.
When I started whoring myself big time to the internet in 1997, I settled upon the "Sycamore" moniker, which I prefer as my nickname today. In high school and college (and still to a degree today), my nickname was "T-money." For whatever reason, my friends and I thought it would be cool to have hard hip-hop nicknames, circa 1991. When we first started Sycamore, I was known as T-money, the Round Mound of Sound. When I lost 70 pounds in 1994, it changed to T-money, the Lean Mean Sound Machine. Furthermore, I hate my real name, and so many people on the 'net know me only as Sycamore (which is primarily here and in old Depeche Mode fan circles). In real life, most people just call me T.
What is funny is what people THINK the name means. Some quote the Terence Trent D'Arby lyric from "Wishing Well." Others think I am some sort of hippie. *laughs* But it's not an "internet persona" of sorts...I act no different here than I do in real life. NBN can vouch for that.