The Offer
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In December 2018, Bowling For Soup was nearing the end of a headlining tour in the United Kingdom.
Before the second-to-last show at the O2 Academy Leicester, Jaret, Gary, and Chris cleared everyone else out of the green room. They wanted to speak with Rob alone.
The UK was Bowling For Soup’s largest international market. Rob had arrived as a fill-in and had spent the tour trying to absorb the size of the shows, the history surrounding the band, and the strange reality that he was standing onstage as part of it.
Then they offered him the permanent job.
Rob accepted before Jaret could finish the sentence.
He walked out of the room and immediately called his wife, Jackie.
The offer did more than make Rob Felicetti an official member of Bowling For Soup. It returned him to the feeling he had experienced in 1999, when three kids picked up instruments they could not play and started a band because there was nothing else they would rather do.
He still feels that way.
