Episodes

Moving back to NYC I had a series of very strange jobs. All an adventure.

The first time we played at the Moravian Lounge ( or the “The Mo” as we called it) was in the fall of 1976. The gig was 5 sets a night, 5 days a week and we ended up staying there (the first time) for about 50 weeks. The Mo was in a suburb called Clinton Township in the outer ring of the Detroit Metropolitan area, not far from lake Sinclair in Macomb county. I had turned 18 the previous May and was already pretty indoctrinated to the bar band life. Most of the area was farms until the 1960s but...

In the Fall of 1977, I moved from Berkley MI, to Washington Heights, on the upper west side of Manhattan NY. Moving from a segregated Detroit suburb to a multicultural urban area offered a quick education in the ways of the larger world. The reason for the move was to go to school at the Institute of Audio Research, which offered a one-year program in audio recording and record making. In the end, I worked at a studio on 72nd and Broadway owned by Herb Abramson, one of the founders of Atlantic ...

Charlie Brown’s was on Kenneth street in Pontiac, MI. off of Telegraph Rd. by Dixie Hwy. Dennis, Marshall, Rick Boehms and I played there for 16 weeks; five nights a week, probably four sets a night, the year I graduated from high school (1976). When our friends or family would initially come up, the first thing they would say is “Oh, this isn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.” I’m sure, though, after experiencing a Friday or Saturday night at Charlie Brown’s, they felt differently. I’...

There are people who forever change your life. This is one of those stories.

Episode 3 is called High School

"Hootenanny" was an American musical variety television show broadcast on ABC from April 1963 to September 1964. I remember it because in our town there was a local talent show roughly based around the show. I remember three things about it One, Marshall and I performed together for the first time in public, he playing guitar and singing and me supplying the Jug-Head beat, tapping along on my Slingerland snare drum. Two, there was a little girl that was some kind of distraction for us, who sang...

The first episode, Intro-Origin lays down the foundation for establishing a relationship with the main character (Robert Crenshaw). "An old man in an old car drive down the road. Sometimes the car because a time machine as he thinks about the past, present, and future. All of the times he turned right instead of left, all of the things that led him to this moment..."