# Impossible song ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574 "2009-12-17T01:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/23 "2009-12-18T04:19:36Z")
Thanks! It was actually a bit of work, that one. OTOH, it was nothing compared to what I went thru to find out more about a band who’s CD I’ve actually owned since the late '80s. Just this past spring, I spent almost 4 days tracking down a band from the San Francisco area called **Trees Of Mystery**. I have their CD, _Mooks on Parade_, which is an amazingly polished, confident, genre-bending little gem of an album, with at least 3 bona fide “excellent” songs on it. I did a lot of internet searching, which was hard since Trees of Mystery is also a very popular **place** in California, near SF. Finally, I went to my old friend the telephone. I called clubs, I called radio stations, I called booking agencies, I called newspapers and magazines in SF. I finally ended up tracking down the guy who used to own the studio they recorded the album in studio now gone, he works as an instructor at a college now), and he told me enough about the band members that I was able to track 2 of them down and finally get the story on the band. I had like 4 pages of notes I had made, with phone numbers and names and when I talked to people and who referred me to who… it was awesome! ETA: I love doing this type of research; I often spend whole days just “finding stuff out”. If I could get a job doing it, I would. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574)._