It's probably safe to say that never in the history of all of mankind, has a hair salon been rocked so hard as Zing Salon was rocked on Friday.

Storytyme, the Boulder band-in-residence, had just finished its 2 hour set / 3 hour party, celebrating band member Phil Lewis' art opening at Zing, 12th and Spruce in Boulder. The art was quite astounding, and can be viewed and or purchased at Zing throughout the month of March.

After the commemorative concert had come to a close, I stood there, sockless and confused in its aftermath, amid the still-spinning barber chairs and broken brooms-the dustpans were nowhere to be found. People with fancy yet strange hair were filing around me in all directions towards everywhere. “What,” I wondered, “in the name of all that is righteous, has happened to my socks?” But as soon as the question had surfaced in my consciousness, the answer became all too obvious: my socks had been rocked completely off by this band...this Storytyme.

Transplanted to Boulder back in 2001 from Lake Tahoe, Nev. by way of Los Angeles, Calif., Storytyme has for several years been playing gigs all over Colorado, their venues ranging from Red Rocks, to the Fox, to bars and open mics and now...to a hair salon called Zing. And everywhere they have played, they have left a trail of disembodied socks in their wake.

The band's name comes from back when the trio, all brothers, first started playing together. A friend told them that when they gathered around to play their music, it reminded him of story time. The name stuck.

Why then is ‘tyme' spelled with a ‘Y?'

“Because,” Jokes Pete, lead singer and guitarist for the band, “Tony, like most drummers, doesn't know how to spell,”

But the remark is quickly retracted and replaced with something about how the...the Y is deep and...you know, meaningful.

Throughout its career of six definitive albums and 30 some-odd tapes, CDRs, etc., Storytyme has been constantly reinventing itself, each album, a snapshot of where the members were at the time the album was written. But throughout all this change, there is an element that has remained undeniably true - the element of showmanship. Storytyme always has and always will put on a on a hell of a good show. The secret, says, Pete, is that “rock comes from a little place inside your brain that kicks your ass and tells you that you need to let it all out.”

During this show, the band perpetuated its reputation as an amazing live band with an intense sense of showmanship. The drums kept pounding and shaking and bouncing all over the makeshift stage with Tony's incessant and enthusiastic crasjomg. The neck of Phil's bass guitar is ticking and tocking trying to remind hickory dicks how to dock. And Pete...Pete's face and guitar and lanky limbs are contorting in ways that seem impossible, but somehow perfect in the context of this crazy rock show, in the middle of a hair salon, in the middle of an art show, in the middle of Boulder, in the middle of life as we know it.

Rock on, Storytyme. Rock once upon a tyme.

Oh, and if you find my socks, let me know - they are tube socks with two green stripes