Glenn Adams can carry things. He can carry the mail and he can carry a tune. Adams is a postal worker by day and a musician by night.Adams has delivered the mail in Falcon for five years, but his interest in music started when he was a little boy in New York.He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but he grew up in Pearl River, an hour north of the city, near the New Jersey border.At age 10, Adams learned to play the trumpet and thanks to his high school band teacher, he said he not only learned how to play music but also learned how to write it. Between his junior and senior years of high school he earned a summer scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. “I decided I wanted to go there after I graduated, so I … majored in composition,” he said. After two and a half years, he quit and moved back to New York.But soon he was on the move again. Adams and his buddy decided to move to California. “We packed up a van and drove out and ended up in Topanga, Calif., just north of LA,” he said.They met a couple of other neighborhood musicians well connected in the music industry. They formed a band and ended up with a record contract from Columbia Records – all within six months of moving to the West Coast. Adams said they all thought they had “hit the big times.” Although they opened for a Blue Oyster Cult concert, their time in the spotlight was short lived. They never released and album and eventually broke up.Adams then put his music career on hold and went to California State University in Los Angeles to complete his bachelor’s degree. His career path had landed him jobs in marketing for computer magazines. He married and divorced and eventually married again. He and his second wife, Wendy, married in 1999, and both began working together for her father, who owned an advertising agency.They fell in love with Colorado after a trip to Aspen to visit Adams’ brother. “On our drive back to California, Wendy liked Colorado so much she said, ‘Hey, let’s move here.'”In 2004, Adams and his wife moved to Colorado Springs. Adams had already lined up a job working for the Peyton Post Office. “I had worked six months at a post office in California after working at the advertising agency,” he said. Adams said he found the job posted on the Internet and applied. The rest, as they say, is history.But then there was still his love of music.”I was always making music with computers, but I didn’t have any way to get it out to the public,” he said. No matter, in 2002 he released his first album – “Galactic Anthems.”Adams has since released several CDs, including “Abstract Circuitry” (2004), “Before the Drone” (2004), “Subterranean Transit” (2005) and a compilation CD, “Lightyears from Home” (2006).His 2007 release is from his first album, “Galactic Anthems.” It’s called “Semper Fidelity.” The CD combines a sci-fi comic by Matt Howarth and 55 minutes of music inspired by the comic, all on the same disc. Adams earned national recognition because of the CD. Shortly after he submitted the CD to Keyboard Magazine, Adams was named the magazine’s “Unsigned Artist of the Month.” He didn’t know it until he was thumbing through the magazine.Adams’ music also has been licensed for use by numerous cable TV stations, including the Sci-Fi Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, the Discovery Health Channel and MTV. “I make a lot more money licensing music than selling CDs, for sure,” he said. But he’s not quitting the post office just yet. He said he’s happy with both jobs.More on Glenn Adams What is your favorite thing about Colorado?I love the woods. Growing up in New York there were lots of woods. We had nothing like that in California and I missed it. I also love all the seasons, as much as I hate working or driving in the snow (to deliver the mail), I still love the snow.Name someone you admire.My wife because, besides running her business from home, she takes care of our daughter. She gets up in the middle of the night – still – and I don’t tell her enough how much I appreciate everything she does.Do you have other hobbies, besides music?I like photography and hiking and I used to play a lot of racquetball before I injured my knee.What is one of your favorite memories?I was in the Boy Scouts, and in my junior year of high school we took a train from New York to New Mexico and along the way we stopped in Chicago and went to the Air and Space Museum. And then we came to Colorado and slept at the Air Force Academy and went to the top of Pikes Peak. It was great! My other favorite memory is probably when my daughter, Lauren, was born: Nov. 9, 2005.
