[v1.2 -- June 2002-December 2002]
In his first of many failures, Sean Higgins announced to the band that he would be out of town for the debut show of the summer. This called for a solution - at that time intended to be temporary. Enter myself. With a bunch of years of childhood piano instruction and a bitchin' CT-7000 Casiotone board (also from my childhood), I was recruited to learn parts for all the songs on the setlist. Upon Sean's return, the band experimented with a 5-piece arrangement to pleasing results. It was decided to continue with the keyboards as a semi-permanent fixture for the summer schedule. I'm not sure at which point in the summer we realized it, but with new material being written to accommodate the keyboard, it became a "key" element (pun forcefully intended - in fact, remaining all that validates the existence of this sentence) and part of the new signature sound. After a successful summer of promotion and gigging, Lowfive had established enough of a fanbase that we felt it necessary to continue full-time, simply as a preservation measure. However, with members once again relocating to different countries, we had reached figurative crossroads. continue...