Was around W. Lafayette from Fall of 1982 to late 1984. Sang for band called Radio Free in Fall of 1982 with John Carson on guitar from the Panics out of Bloomington, who made the "The Red Snirts" comp. with "Drugs Are For Thugs". We played 5 gigs accompanying the Screaming Dogs before John went all Christian Fundementalist on me, unable to play "secular music" any longer. Later had band called The Dive, with Ben Shipmen, Chip Hunter and Paul East-never really got out of the basement beyond a handful of lukewarm gigs. Did guest vocals at numerous Dog shows with my heart-felt version of "I Wanna' Be Your Dog", usually tripping. Attempted repeatedly to form band with Tom Hildeman aka "Tommy Smack", but nothing ever jelled beyond rehearsal stages.-Essentially then, just a scenester, bit player or wanna-be, but I remember A LOT!! A few years later living in Germany and England, picked up the guitar, developed a pretty strong singing voice and started penning(if I say so myself) some really good songs, which were recorded with several bands. I'll try to stick them on here later.
What bands are you or have you been in?
In Miami: Snake Church, Stigmatahari and Bulbous in London
They were the times... Been fun catching up with everyone. The old photos are the best- still trying to find my stash --- moved recently and haven't come across it yet- searching~~~~~~~
I'm all for MFT and the artists both making some money whether it's NP or not. I'm glad there is another way of getting us out there.
If I would have sold an album in the 80s, I remember most little labels and artists would be happy to sell their t…
PJ- I thought of that too! I could use a new Ping hat.
We aren't too far down the road of the NP thing to turn back. But John is right, if we can find a way to funnel money to artists then I'm all about having MFT make some of that transaction. It…
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