CURRENT SINGLE: “Love Talking”
Summer is officially in full swing, and while the guys in Eli Young Band were celebrating the Fourth of July with a show at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, they’re definitely looking forward to spending part of the summer at the beach. Although bassist Jon Jones, a father of two, is hoping none of their beach days will be as eventful as one particular day he spent at the beach as a kid with his aunt and uncle. “My uncle was, I think at the time he was a Colonel, may have been a General, in the Air Force,” Jon recalls. “But he was in charge of watching me for the day.”
As a kid, and even to this day, Jon admits, “I am a little spacey and kinda get side tracked. But I guess I was just looking down at sea shells and kinda picking ‘em up and putting ‘em down – not really collecting ‘em, but I was just kinda fascinated, and I guess I just kinda wandered away.”
Meanwhile, Jon’s uncle was in a panic not being able to find Jon on the beach, so he called in reinforcements. “And he had the Coast Guard looking for me,” says Jon. “He thought that maybe something had happened to me and was really, really worried that he was in charge of I don’t know how many thousands of troops, but yet he lost his nephew on the beach.”
The funny part of the story for Jon is that he says, “I was found a couple of hours later, and I had no idea. I was never lost. But I think the Coast Guard found me and I was just still wandering down the beach looking at sea shells,” blissfully unaware of the panic he had caused that day at the beach.
Eli Young Band – favorite beach memory Jon :48
Jon Jones – “There was a good story of a beach in Florida where my aunt and uncle lived. And my uncle was, I think at the time he was a Colonel, may have been a General, in the Air Force. But he was in charge of watching me for the day, and I am a little spacey and kinda get side tracked. But I guess I was just looking down at sea shells and kinda picking ‘em up and putting ‘em down – not really collecting ‘em, but I was just kinda fascinated, and I guess I just kinda wandered away. And it had gone on for maybe about an hour before he realized I was gone. And he had the Coast Guard looking for me. He thought that maybe something had happened to me and was really, really worried that he was in charge of I don’t know how many thousands of troops, but yet he lost his nephew on the beach. I was found a couple of hours later, and I had no idea. I was never lost. But I think the Coast Guard found me and I was just still wandering down the beach looking at sea shells.”