Got together at James
Bowie Jr. High - we all played in the school band,
all loved the Beach Boys...
"let's form a band!"
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Personnel:
Gerald Saxon - Lead Guitar
Daniel Byrd - Drums
Dan Coody - Keyboards
Steve Conrad -12 String
Gary Seaman - Vocals
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Influences:
Beatles
(gee, ya think????) Animals, Fever Tree
(GREAT Houston band!!!)
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Setlist
Sample:
Hang on Sloopy (Yardbirds arrangement),
Just Like Me, Midnight Hour, Little Bit O'
Soul, We Gotta Get Outta This Place, Don't
Bring Me Down ( Animals).
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Equipment:
Lead Guitar was the Ultra-Vox...Ludwig
drums- Guild 12 string- Vox Jaguar
organ.
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Rehearsal
Space:
Garage
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Band
Vehicles:
Are you
kidding me???
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Fashion
Statement:
At one
point we all dressed in Green shirts with
black Turtle necks.
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Best
Gig:
French
High School - we were really on that
night. Did a new arrangement(stolen) of
Morning Dew and got a Standing
"O"
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Gig
from
Hell!:
French
High School - Different night. We pretty
much sucked...we knew it...the crowd knew
it...at least we agreed on
SOMETHING!
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Last
Gig:
Don't
remember.
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Comments:
We were pretty
rotten but it was a great time. WE later morphed
into a group called "Mace" that enjoyed quite a bit
of success along the Gulf Coast. Gerald Saxon is
STILL one of the best guitarist I've ever heard in
my life!
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