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Buy DHT, FRO, and NAT: The Band With No Right to Exist (But They Do Anyway)

🎶   Buy DHT, FRO, and NAT: The Band With No Right to Exist (But They Do Anyway) 🚦 Prelude: The Origins David Henry Thompson (DHT) grew up in Galveston, Texas. His dad worked the docks, his mom played church piano. As a boy he imitated tanker horns across the harbor until neighbors yelled, “That kid got lungs!” He decided then and there: the world would know him by his initials. Three letters. Easy to chant. Frederick Robert Olsen (FRO) was born in Bergen, Norway, to a ship captain and a violinist. He was quiet, shy, but built his first bass out of shipyard scrap wood. When he plucked it, windows rattled. He never explained himself — people just called him FRO, and that was that. Nathaniel Aaron Torres (NAT) grew up in noisy Newark, New Jersey. He was louder than his whole block. Banging on tables, lockers, garbage cans — anything that echoed. Teachers said he was disruptive. He said, “I’m practicing.” NAT became his name and his rhythm. 🎸 The Meeting They collided one stormy nig...