The Official History of Instant Dogma

(Woodrose, snakes & ladders, Freak Music,
Punk Rock Treehouse and everything else.)
1985

The End of the SAC Studio
and The Move to Milford


We gigged through the spring, playing a lot of double bills
with Condition Red. Automatic There had been out
and our album release show was a shared gig.
When they would go through phases of being sans drummer,
Greg would sit in with them.

We started getting airplay
and some pretty decent reviews.
Woodrose kept recording, playing out and promoting.
We even made a cheesy video for Out of Bounds.

It was also that Spring that Cathi became pregnant
and we were destined to have a kid.







Stills from our music video
Go here to see this work of art.



Video still of Steve in the apt
at 115 Mechanic Street




Steve  at 14 West, with Geof
(circa summer 1986

As the spring moved to summer, there were rumblings
and grumblings coming from the Southboro Very Concerned Citizens,
regarding that band at The Art Center. It wasn't long before we
were told to skedaddle. So on the second to last weekend in July
Greg, Cathi and I moved -


From 115 Mechanic Street, in Marlboro
and the Southboro Art Center to


14 West Street in Milford.

There was space for Greg, space for our soon-to-be-child,
space for a control room/studio, and space for video gear.
 There were three funeral parlors. It was a quiet neighborhood.
For the next five years this would be the
Attitude Communications base of operations.
It would also be the beginning of the end for Woodrose.

We moved in and started building a new studio,
but not before shooting the final segments
of the Woodrose Comedy Hour.
The unfinished basement made a perfect prison cell.


We also played the Acton Boxboro Arts Festival
one last time and video taped it.

Go here to see a clip
Go here to buy



Greg in the prison/dream sequence

  Woodrose winding down

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