More than 47 years

 

    

         50 YEARS AND THEN SOME  

           This is Part Two of my Musical History, the way *I* remember it...I suspect it's only marginally accurate due to the passage of time...  

      THE COMBUSTIBLES--I joined a group led by Barry Fantle called the Combustibles...The name made sense, we changed drummers at least once and Bass players too...Barry was a good song writer, but IMO, not the best singer...he wasn't the worst either...

        ACME BAND COMPANY/ IN TONE NATION--both were led by Dave Koplow...In fact ITN, was TWO bands--a Montgomery County line-up and an Anne Arundel Co. line-up...I was the guitarist  in the MontCo line-up...The guitar player in the other band was Joe Dyson, who had actually been in the Last Chance with me, if only briefly...The two bands also shared a drummer...

         THE SNOWDAWGZ--I joined a band formed by Stu Judd, we gigged some but, the way *I* remember it, we just sorta drifted apart...But not before I could record a pair of gigs...It may have been the least stressful of any of the MontCo bands I was in, other than MSR...

        THE FULL HOUSE BAND--we intially came together as the house band at the OTWC Open Mic...I believe *I* came up with the name...I would say it was possibly the best of all the MontCo bands I'd been in since leaving Glen Burnie in 1985...but I also think there was room for improvement...we had "philosophical" differences, musically speaking... I don't WANT to be in a cover band that plays the songs EXACTLY like the record...and of course, my guitar skills DO have limits...I couldn't play a Van Halen solo if you held a gun to my head, for instance...

          A pandemic in the Spring of 2020 put a complete stop to what seemed like EVERYTHING, including the bands...it's could be that I had actually left them of my own free will...with the possible exception of the FHB...I think I was fired from that one...it may have been fun when I joined, but as time went on, the fun slowly eveaporated...