A few months back, I had a reunion session with Jim Smith and Dave Murray. We played in a band called the Fabulous Weiners in the early 80s. See the Evil Clown Album page for details and links: https://evilclown.rocks/fabulous-weiners/

I’ve been thinking a bit about those early times in my music career since they came, so I dug through my hard drives and found the one that has the digitized files of my early work from 84 to 92. Most of it is not well recorded, but there are some studio sessions and some things well better recorded by Space on a 4-channel Reel to Reel recorder.

When I moved to Santa Cruz in 1984 to go to USCS I promptly fell in with the Thieves Villains and Scoundrels Union Local 12, my first rock band. I was 20 years old and the other guys were more musically experienced and all a bit older than me. The band had been around for a few years and was on their third guitar player Steve Newman.

They had been recording in a Santa Cruz studio and had 4 or 5 songs completed as I showed up on the scene. Dave Murray, the bass player, also played trumpet and we added some simple horn parts to 2 of the tracks in this final set of 7 rock songs by my first band. This is the only well-recorded material existing from this band, but there are a handful of rehearsal tapes and one club performance at Ruthies in Berklee from the year or so following these studio sessions that I will publish in a separate Deep Archive Posts. These other recordings feature the guitar playing of George who replaced Steve Newman during my tenure.

PEK – 11/6/2026