The Mergrins

I went to Purdue my freshman year of college, with the intention of becoming an electrical engineer. That didn't exactly work out, but I did (much to the concern of my mother) join a band. That band was The Mergrins, a Greenfield, Indiana based band. I was introduced to them by my good friend Toni Dunn/Carr (aka Joan of Dark), and when they decided they needed a keyboardist, I was in.

After we all went to Purdue for a year, we made the decision to move to Bloomington for the better music scene. I transferred to IU and we all moved into the Mergrin house, which later (many years post-Mergrins) burned down. It's too bad, because that was a fun/weird house. It had a crazy storage unit attached to it with random crap in it, including an old red sports car. There was also a way to climb a tree and drink on the roof, which we definitely took advantage of. The Mergrins' time in time in Bloomington was rocky, and by the end of a year (and several lineups later), the band broke up. The members of The Mergrins moved on to do a lot of different things. 

This post will archive some of the things I have related to the Mergrins, including some poor quality photographs. I also happen to have MP3s for many of the songs, and those can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lXbnmZvUUT8lr0O0fXD3O_1FbabAbTFT