ATP has a special place in my heart as it is the first concert I went to after leaving the world of electronic music in Texas and moving to California. Five years ago, this festival was being held in Long Beach at the Queen Mary, playing host to such bands as Modest Mouse, The Shins, Built to Spill, Elliott Smith, Mission of Burma, Mars Volta, Minutemen Duo, Lungfish, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and many others.  The group that is now TSS was smaller and largely made up of different faces back then but the essence was the same; people coming together over a common thread of passion for the positive vibration force that is music. While thinking about these early days of pre-TSS  existence, I sifted through some old shoe-boxes for photos of the crew. Check out these memories. (more…)