BANSHEE  -  Vic Nan (barely visible on left), me, and Rick Schewerk.  Oktoberfest Jam, under a tent in downtown Fairborn, Ohio, on Oct. 18, 1975.  It was about 36 degrees that night.

I'm playing a Sears & Roebuck Silvertone bass thru a Peavey Standard PA head & a 15" cabinet I made.  The grill cloth is tacked on with roofing nails.  I wish I still had that shirt.

BOGUS ROGUE  -  Back row:  Marty Wilkie, Tim Dozier, Randy Brant.  Front row:  Bill Hammond, me.

Fall of 1979.  Tim Dozier played with the funk band SLAVE in the 70's, they had lots of albums on Atlantic.  Randy taught me to play bass in 7th grade, and I talked him into leaving college in Pennsylvania to come play in this band.

We landed the prestigious 1st cut on side 2 of the WEBN 4th annual Album Project from that year, produced by Cincinnati's biggest rock station.  We were one of 90-some bands to make the cut.  Only out on vinyl, of course . . .

THE EARL BAND  -  Me, Bert Combs, Dougie Goodner, & O.W. Allen.  Taken after we tore the roof off the Grapevine Roadhouse, in Hazard, Kentucky, at about 3am.  Man, what a monster, rockin' band.  Sometime in the Summer of 1980.

We came back 2 weeks later, and after ONE song (Feel Like A Number by Bob Seger), someone started shooting the place up, so we didn't get to finish the gig.

THE SWITCH  -  Back row:  Me, Nate Jones. Front row:  Jeff Woods, J.D. Madrid, Paul Easter

Centerville, Ohio, Summer of 1996.  I had to quit this band when I moved to Connecticut in the fall of that year.  Broke my heart.  Jeff plays blues guitar like nobody, and I mean nobody.  Screamin'.  I hear J.D. is playing with Paul somewhere out west. 

What a great band, and it's how I got back into music after a decade in limbo . . . Thanks, guys.

One of the first bands I hooked up with in CT, and with my 1st ever stand-up.  Great folks.