The Official History of Instant Dogma (Woodrose, snakes & ladders, Freak Music,Punk Rock Treehouse and everything else.) |
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This is the very beginning The Psychotic Reactions.I played guitar, Bobby Mullen was on drums. It was 1970 and we were both ten. My folks were divorced. To compensate my dad gave me the drums, guitar and amp. The guitar was Harmony something or other. It had been given to him in exchange for guitar lessons, by a feller who swam the Rhine to escape E. Germany. We were waiting for our hit single, “Friends Forever,” (which featured both A and D chords) to break and climb the charts. My dad recorded us playing in his living room. That tape is probably in a landfill somewhere. |
Eventually I grew frustrated with my limited guitar abilities. I could not form the chords for songs I wanted to play, as the guitar neck was too wide. And thus began my first retirement from show business. For next three years I would focus on graphic arts, comic collecting and cartooning. Sidebar - My friendship with Bobby ended after he tried to drown me in his pool. |
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Plans to expand The Psychotic Reactions personnel would go unfulfilled. Continue Return to Index |