Throwback MP3 of the Week: Nasa’s Little Secret, “Seventeen”
The one and I only time I ever saw Nasa’s Little Secret, I didn’t actually see them. In all truth, I listened to about three or four songs they played while standing outside a packed coffee shop called the Tin Man in Tonganoxie. It was the summer before my senior year of high school, and the Tin Man was the only cool place worth hanging out in Leavenworth County.
Now, of course the place was harassed, it went out of business because running a coffee shop that caters to high school kids isn’t a sound business model, and the owner may or may not have been the sort of guy who talked you down from a bad acid trip — all things that don’t go over too well in late ’90s small-town Kansas.
Anyhow, the Nasa’s Little Secret show was kind of a big deal amongst my friends, because it was a band from Kansas City playing our hangout. I had hauled ass down tp the Tin Man to make the show, after working a shift sacking groceries, only to discover the place overfilled, with probably twice as many people outside as in.
My friends decided that we were going back to Lansing. I got to hear enough of the band to make the drive worthwhile, and then went and swam with a bunch of girls who were totally out of my league and made me feel amazingly self-conscious about my pale, chubby body. Good times…good times.
Nasa’s Little Secret’s frontman David Gaume would go on to form bands like Aerialuxe and the Stella Link, improving upon the space-rock groundwork laid with this early band.
