1/26/2024 0 Comments Mellow yellow![]() Yellow finished third in the Water Race, netting their team a bronze medal, their third medal of the season, and the entire team earned a gold medal in the Quartet Diving event, putting the team in a three-way tie for second place, with just one event to go. They rose to the top of the standings, tied with Rojo Rollers in both points and medals. The team immediately started the season strong with a silver medal in Balancing and earned their first gold medal in the Sand Rally. Mellow Yellow prequalified for Marble League 2016 due to their second-place finish in the Fruit Circuit, joining the tournament with the Limers, O’rangers, and Greg Woods in tow to commentate. With that came a new beginning for the team. When the Fruit Circuit shut down for good in 2016, due to a sufficient lack of funding, Mellow Yellow ended the competition in second place overall. Races were once per week and had a cumulative score throughout multiple seasons.Īs the years passed, Mellow Yellow became a consistent force, usually placing in the top five. After training was completed, the team entered the fray in the Fruit Circuit. The Fruit Circuit deal involved minimal training for the four athletes, who donned the team name “Mellow Yellow” to avoid copyright-related issues while staying true to their origin story. They struggled to make ends meet for months until receiving an invitation from Greg Woods to join their troupe of Fruit Circuit races. They moved into an apartment in Marblopolis, a city renowned for individual marble racing, and tried to find new jobs. The four left the city and headed out west, where taxes were much cheaper. After a long night of meetings and a lot of empty cans of soda, the four realized that they were miserable at their corporate jobs, and decided to quit. Yellow, Yellah, Yelley, and Yellup had all been working at the company for about ten years each, and they were taste-testing their Non-Descript Yellow Soda when they first met each other. It was truly the Summer of Love for us.Perhaps it comes as no surprise given their name, but the team members of Mellow Yellow all met while working for The Non-Descript Soda Company in Amalanta. That was before the hippie scene in San Francisco went bad because of the money everyone was making off drugs, et cetera. We stuck out like sore thumbs, but everyone was really cool and it didn't seem to matter that we weren't dressed like all of them. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Just remembered that we even went to the extent of making our own peace sign pendants from thin copper rods and solder in Metal Shop so we might fit in to the crowd. ![]() What a fantastic period to have lived in. ![]() Quite an eye bulging experience for 3 - 17 year-old guys at the time! Sure wish someone would organize one more love-in just to have the chance to relive that day. Some of them were so high on other drugs they never realized it when the sheets fell off. Will never forget the beautiful girls walking around with nothing but a white sheet wrapped around them. Well, besides rasping our lungs out, it didn't do a thing, but we sure had a great time. So we thought, "What the Heck! Let's try it!". When we arrived at Golden Gate Park sure enough, all of the hippies were smoking what they called "Mellow Yellow"! We asked one guy what the high was like and he said it just mellowed you out and it was perfectly legal to smoke it. So one day we loaded up one of our buddy's cars and headed out for San Francisco from LA during the Easter Break. When this song first came out we thought it was about smoking the white stuff scraped from the inside of banana peels, too.
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