The Official History of Instant Dogma (Woodrose, snakes & ladders, Freak Music,Punk Rock Treehouse and everything else.) |
1983/1984 |
In July of 1983 we moved into, then began building a basement studio, at the Southboro Art Center. We would be headquartered there for a little over two years. The Woodrose Comedy Hour video project began there, as well as our alliance with Condition Red (Mick Lawless and Eric Bartlett.) In October we acquired a Tascam 234 Multitrack cassette recorder.
We planned to take over the world. |
The Southboro Art Center (as it is now.) |
Fernal School 10.14.83 (Our first video recording) |
We started getting it together. commissioned some spiffy promo pics to go with our spiffy demo. |
And we started recording At first we had to rent mics and mixer (see left.) But eventually we copped the required gear and we were on our way. While we indulged our creative whims, Cathi was out booking club gigs, scoring radio interviews and on-air performances. She did a great job as our agent. We took advantage of every connection she made. The dance card was getting full real fast. During the week Woodrose would rehearse, gig or record. On the weekends, Greg and I would experiment or Eric might stop by to demo a song or there might be a showing of the Monkees movie (HEAD.) There was no shortage of activity. |
First demo sessions. 8.4.1983 |