StinkFight.com

…via e-mail today. Felt too good not to post, there’s so much history here.

Skip is my longest-running friend. Met him in college in 1982. He turned me onto punk rock. He lives in China now.

————————-

At 02:59 PM 12/5/2007, Skip wrote:

…..yeah i figgered as such. we can say tho that yer first punk band was with greg?

MWD wrote:

I’d rather not.

Anyway, I think my first punk band was the Armless Children lineup before Greg and his brother, the lineup with Doug on bass and Tony Yanik on drums and me on guitar and singing.

Skip wrote:

he was actually a goupie for the earlier Salamanca crew, Punk London. [worst name ever???" ] so.. Bob-o-matic was Cattaragus’s only true punk musician. ,,

MWD wrote:
My first band that played a gig was called “London/US Air.” Did I ever tell you that? Cover band in Westfield, on vacation from church farm school, when I was 15.
Keyboard player is now the Dean of Sweetbriar college (private all-girls college in Virginia. Damn, I’m glad no one ever gave me that job….)

All my long-term friends, except you, Jay and Doug, have PhDs or are lawyers.

Skip wrote:

ANYWAY. I didn’t think that you played “punk guitar ” that good, cause you were “too good and musical”.

MWD wrote:
At that time I was too good to play punk, but not good enough to play the prog rock I wanted to play. I didn’t really come onto my own until I was 18, switched to bass, and wrote punk rock bass lines for prog rock songs we wrote in Baby Opaque. (Drummer of that band is a tenured English proff with a PhD, as you know.)

Skip wrote:

I saw your band The Armless Children, not yet punk really, and never greg boltz n the nutz. that was prolly strange ..at MARSHALL DILLONS disco?

MWD wrote:

Yup. At a country and western battle of the bands.  Our friend Rowdy Remmington talked a redneck out of shooting us while we were on stage.

Skip wrote:

But what really impressed me was when you send me the baby opaque.
not even the music so much as that when i heard that you took a CONSTRUCTION job for the summer to pay for it!

I imagine skinny li’l you shirtless up on  a girder, sweating.

MWD wrote:
I’m glad anyone still pictures me skinny. But nope. No traipsing on girders. I mostly swept up after the guys with actual skills. But I did sweat. It was in Virginia in the Summer. And made four bucks an hour.

Skip wrote:

Talk about selling your soul for rock n roll…….that takes big balls and dedication. sacrifice baby.
placard:

“Will work construction jobs for Punk”

MWD wrote:
I did paid medical research to help pay for the recording of my DC band, “The Day I Lost My Virginity.” I was a guinea pig.
And I did that again in San Fran to pay for the pressing of “to Elvis in hell.”

In DC it was something called “anti-steroids.” I’ve never heard of them since, so I don’t think they passed the tests.
In San Fran it was a study where they paid me to be shot up with cocaine, then made me play video games and measured my response times. I almost got kicked out of the study for asking “Can I PLEASE just go in the bathroom and masturbate?????” I even offered to let them follow me in with their clipboards and watch. All in the interest of science, of course.

This entry was posted by Michael W. Dean on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pm and is filed under MWD's Cool Stuff, Other people's cool stuff, Stink Fight. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.