"Formal" meeting

Sitting in my evening class Wednesday night I remembered that I was supposed to meet up with my informant following my class. Saved in my phone as "Bob Adolescent", I sent him a text reminding him of our meeting tonight in Sun Rise. Sun Rise is an apartment complex where many college students reside, one being my friend Dave. Dave is 24 and is friends with one of Bob's band mates. To insure Bob's comfort level we decided to meet there in hopes to not have uncomfortably awkward moments. Minutes later Bob texted me back saying, "Ya let me hit him up" which means that he was going to get in touch with Dave to let him know that we will be arriving. I let him know that I had already talked to him and everything was on track.
I arrived 5 minutes early, which is rare for me, so I could get and be settled before Bob arrived. Well Bob was 15 minutes late, which I thought was rude and then I thought about how I'm late going anywhere, so I let it slide. Bob, who is a newly 19 year old as of Jan. 16, was decked out in dark jeans and a light blue shirt. His pimply face was covered half by the shade of his pale blue and turquoise plaid hat. Normally when a male is wearing a hat it is for a sports team or of a popular logo, I'm not sure what this plaid hat stood for, fashion?
I'm not really sure if he fully understood the purpose of this assignment, so instead of having him just read and sign the consent form I read it out loud to him. I made sure that I stopped after words, like ethnography to make sure he grasped the concept . He 's expression was bleak, showing little interest in what I was explaining. I told him that this was going to be the only interview type set up and from here on out I would be just hanging around asking questions about certain things. He had no complaints.
So here is my informant who is a 19 year old male, graduate of Absecon High School, attended the local community college for a semester, living in his parents house in Galloway. BUT he leads an interesting path, for the last 5 years he has played bass guitar in a band. As I've gathered thus far is that this is not the average high school band with occasional shows at the local church. "Cut It Out" is the name of their band which has been touring for the past 3 years. There are five members, three are originals who met their freshmen year in high school. The band is under two different labels; Side to Side and Assassinated. The last tour that he went on was a month ago where they went to N.C., Georgia, Texas, Saint Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Their next tour is in June. I was taken back by this information on his bands success. In order to get their sound out in America they sale CD's for $5 and T-Shirts for $7, which they put out with their own money. They rarely stay in hotels but through networking stay at people's houses in the area that their show is in. On occasional weekends they drive to play shows in Massachusetts.
Their band practices on Sundays in Little Egg Harbor or at Dave's. So my brain started brewing ideas and I asked him if his other band mates would be interested in participating in my research. He shrugged his shoulders and replied confidently, "Yea, without a doubt". So for the next ten weeks or so ill be the fly on the wall, a "groupie" if you will. I am real excited to run with this idea!