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This is where the bug bites, hardcore.
In the spring on 1974,
No More Mr. Nice Guy, by Alice Cooper, was a major hit. It sounded pissed off and really spoke to me (I got a lot of shit at school.) I got a cassette of the album Billion Dollar Babies. Bought the music book. And over the course of that summer played it incessantly. I went through more batteries than a convent. I was about to enter high school. I wanted to meet chicks. I started playing a lot of guitar. |
| Winter of 1974/75 Found in a second hand shop where I had scored comic books. I played it endlessly for John Herring (an erstwhile band mate in a group with Louie Von Erhling.) Louie's mom owned the Amanita Art Gallery where we sorta played. m We never actually rehearsed or had a name. I had been into The Monkees first, second and fourth albums. They were the reason I wanted to play, when I was eleven. But this song was something else. It was psychojello. It had Doug Lubahn on bass. It's weird melancholy tone spoke to me. |
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\   The Place 51 Walden (Friends of The Performing Arts in Concord) |
Winter/Spring 1975 So Concord Carlisle High School sucked, but I was working at 51 Walden after classes and making good dough. Enough to eventually buy a better guitar. Greg Pordon and I met in High School. Greg knew about The Place (a Concord Center teen hangout in the basement of an Episcopal Church.) Greg played keyboards and guitar. He already had a drummer and bassist lined up. My days with the John Herring no-name band were numbered. And I needed a better guitar |
Summer 1975 This was the guitar. Bought with my work money. Paid for in cash, $360. Something about Carlos and the look of the L6-S sold me. The fella at Acton-Concord Music was pretty impressed with my choice. I loved that thing, new guitar smell. |
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Summer 1975
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