57Gregy
Black Mariah, the band I played in when I was in California, played 3 or 4 nights a week at a place called Pat's Grass Shack in Goleta. We were just starting out and we played for free beer and the gate.
Cover charge was usually $1, so we often played 4 hours for less than $20 on week nights.
But it was fun.
Heard some nice things about it too ... but left in 1982 ... but at the time I was living with Tom Payne and David Payne, that you might or might not remember ... Tom had the huge blue Ludwig drum set at the time and Dave was playing a small synth and piano.
It was there that we had some fun experimenting and playing around. One other person in the house was a bass player, Mike Gellenbeck, that also composed a complete "Wall" like piece ... for which I helped define a couple of parts/pieces in it when we were fooling around. I could paly a couple of those songs in my bass (Gibson EB-0) at the time.
I miss those days ... sadly this band with a very good guitarist and later his wife playing bass, did not go far. Guy George was his name I think. He was pretty good, but he wanted to do his own stuff with his wife, who was a Tina Weymouth look alike, complete with the big bass!
Tom is in Spokane these days, btw.