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Personnel:
Marshall Crenshaw - Lead Guitar
Forrest Teays - Drums
Fred Boone - Lead Singer
Bill Piper - Rhythm Guitar
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Influences:
WKNR,
"Shindig", "Hullabaloo", etc.
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Setlist
Sample:
"Louie Louie", "Gloria", "19th Nervous
Breakdown", "You're Gonna Miss Me" (13th
Floor Elevators; this song was huge in
Detroit; every band played it..) the
usual....
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Equipment:
Forrest had a nice set of Rogers drums,
white marine pearl, I think.. I used
my first electric guitar and amp, a
Gretsch Corvette solidbody and an Ampeg
M12 (which I still have; it's my main amp
these days). For a short while I had
a 1 pickup Danelectro Bellzouki 12 string;
Danelectros are good instruments but this
one was set up badly and was impossible to
play, and I didn't know how to fix
it.. Bill used Fred's guitar and
amp, a killer Gibson Les Paul SG and, I
think, a Gibson amp. We must've
plugged the vocal mics into a guitar
amp..
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Rehearsal
Space:
All three
of the other guys were sons of American
Legion members. The band was formed
in the basement of the Legion Hall and
rehearsed there a few times a week.
And we played the first of our two gigs
there, so the band lived most of it's life
inside of that one bldg.
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Band
Vehicles:
Two of
the guys, Fred and Bill, were high school
age and may have had drivers'
licenses. Forrest and I were about
12, so we walked, rode bikes, or were
driven by Mom and Dad..
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Fashion
Statement:
None..
There was no cohesive look to the
band: two of us were half the size
of the other two. Forrest was the
only one who looked like a Rock band
member, with long hair, etc.
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Best
Gig:
American
Legion Hall, private party, 'cause it was
the first time on stage for all of
us. We were really amazed and
excited when we got hired..
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Gig
from
Hell!:
None; the
only other time I remember us gigging was
at my junior high school, and I remember
looking out in the crowd and seeing kids
that I knew looking at me in disbelief,
awe, etc..
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Last
Gig:
See
above...
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Comments:
I think the band
probably broke up because of the age
disparity. My Dad was uncomfortable with me
hanging around the two older guys. I can see
his point now, but it was interesting for me at the
time; I remember watching Bill and Fred with their
girlfriends at rehearsal trying to understand what
they were doing and how, etc. My Dad might've
engineered my departure behind the scenes, but
maybe not, because a few months later I was in
another band with older guys...
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