Birmingham News: Sunday, January 28, 2007

He had two moods: Happy, asleep

Sunday, January 28, 2007

BOB CARLTON

News staff writer

Adam Trowbridge picked up the guitar at 9 and music played a part in his life from then on.

As a teenager, he and some buddies from school started the I-20 Band and practiced in the living room of his parents' home in Shreveport, La.

When he left to go to Ole Miss, Adam became the social chairman at his Sigma Chi fraternity, where the house band also was his band, Loose Talk.

In the mid-'80s, he also booked bands for the student programming committee, which brought such groups as REM, the Indigo Girls and the Fabulous Thunderbirds to campus.

One time, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh dropped by the Sigma Chi house and he and Adam jammed together. Afterward, they went to Adam and his roommate's apartment and drank beer and played guitars into the morning.

Back then, Adam rode around in a big white Cadillac with Houston Oiler-blue interior, and his buddies would cringe and marvel at his ability to drive with his left leg folded in his lap while he played the guitar and steered with his knees.

It was in college that Adam had his first scare with cancer. He beat Hodgkin's disease, though, and after graduating, he moved to Birmingham in 1989.

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