Reply #9: Once upon a time [View All]

Several bands, actually, involving the same bunch of people in different configurations, depending who could afford what gear, and who was pissed off at who else, etc.

I became a bassist because we had a surplus of guitarists, and I wanted to play badly enough to swallow the four-string demotion. It worked out okay, I'm (generally) happy to identify as a bass player nowadays, and it would actually take major effort to reinvigorate my guitar chops enough to play live.

We tried mainly to write our own stuff, but (especially early on) we covered a lot of the California psychedelic folk-rock bands: Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Love, Country Joe & the Fish, and did I mention the Byrds? (We tried to play *all* of Younger than Yesterday.) And we did the lamest version imaginable of "Help I'm a Rock."

Please note that this was about 35 years ago, and I don't have any documentation of any of this stuff. The good news is, I tracked down the drummer from the year *after* high school, and he not only had tapes of some of our originals (archived with the old band photos etc.), he'd even burned two tapes onto CD! So now I can embarrass myself in digital!