Mrs. Karen Boucher This is Me

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   Published on: 6/8/2004   Last Visited: 2/21/2005

   "It's a trip," Boucher said Monday from a New Orleans studio as his five piece band Fall As Well-comprised of singer/guitarist Jarrod Parker, guitarist Steve Taylor, drummer Jason Robbins, and Lynny Bradshaw on guitar, keyboard, and backing vocals-put the finishing touches on its first single "Lazy Eye."
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   A former West Deptford High football player and wrestler, Boucher headed for the Gulf Coast in the late ‘90's when fellow Fall As Well founding member Taylor convinced Boucher to join him in starting a band, originally dubbed Droppin Trou.
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   A former West Deptford High football player and wrestler, Boucher headed for the Gulf Coast in the late ‘90's when fellow Fall As Well founding member Taylor convinced Boucher to join him in starting a band, originally dubbed Droppin Trou.
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   And, Boucher, who had been at home for a year after serving in the U.S. Marines with Taylor, gladly obliged.
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   "There was something inside that was telling me I had something else to do," Boucher said, noting the long road was sometimes difficult to travel. "There's been times I didn't think we'd ever make it. The odds are almost so stacked up against you."
   
   His mother Karen Boucher, an information clerk at West Deptford Public Library, remembers Labor Day weekend 1998 when her oldest of three sons packed up his red Toyota truck and left in search of his dream.
   
   "He said, ‘Mom, I'm gonna do it,'" Karen Boucher said proudly on Monday. "He said, "If it doesn't work out, I'll be back in six months.' He just saw it happening…That day on the deck when he first talked to me, I knew it."
   
   In the process, Boucher found his "Superman" in the form of 3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell, whose now thriving band made famous by 2000's hit "Kryptonite" and last year's "When I'm Gone" was still struggling in the Mississippi rock scene.
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   His dad hired me on building houses," Boucher said of the Harrell's.
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   Boucher said many of the tunes, some in revamped formats, will crop up on the late fall debut.
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   "I was always big time into records," Boucher said. "I hear bass in my head always."
   
   Regardless of when it officially began, Mrs. Boucher remembers its earliest roots.
   
   "He was a KISS fanatic. He had a little KISS guitar," Karen Boucher said. "He used to imitate Gene Simmons and stick his tongue out and he was, like, 3 years old."
   
   Though admittedly nervous, Mrs. Boucher said she and her husband, Frank, an employee at Valero Refinery in Greenwich Township, and their sons Tom and Mark are in his corner.
   
   "You don't know how long the ride's gonna be," Karen Boucher said.