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As you can see, in this article that ran on approximately Nov 7th-1963, we added a fifth member: Ants Lacono (Anthony to his mom) on tenor sax. We did this for one important reason and one reason only. That is: Ant's could play Harlem Nocturne. Way cool. To play in a minor key was considered "pushing the envelope" at 15, plus, he often talked over our heads in Jazz acronyms that made us feel very worldly and sophisticated. What did we know? We were playing the tunes I was learning from my guitar teacher (Ted Nelson) such as: Blue Moon and other acid rock favorites. No wait. This was the early 60's. THEE 60'S thing hadn't hit yet. Oh yes, Ant's could play "Tequila", too. This was good for 12 and half minutes at a dance ANYTIME. Long before Pee Wee Herman made it famous again. Our drummer, Jeff Lengyel, felt quite confident making statements in the news article predicting the direction that music would be taking in the next few years. You can read them in the far right hand column of the article under "School Parties". They were so off and incorrect as to become stuff of legend. Let us now, 35+ years later, anoint him with the much deserved title of NOTRADAMOS de CHANCELLORS. You see, we didn't know a lick of Jazz ... other than Take 5 by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and as far as Rock n Roll lasting only 5 years more ... well, you be the judge. His bold statements live on to this day between band members who haunt him with it. Norman Fletcher was completely focused on drawing Don Martin comics from Mad Magazine. He was good, too. Norman's other escapades, along with myself, included late night fire hydrant openings (it took a 5 sided wrench ... which he had) and garbage can lid swiping .... to the tune of 59 lids out of local alleys placed in an X formation in front of a girls house that we knew. 65 on another occasion. We were very proud to make the "city news in brief" section of the newspaper on those garbage can raids. Yes, the very same newspaper that ran this article above. We did like music, though. Honest we did. We just had the teenage mischief thang really, really bad. We once blew up a toilet bowl in Jr. High School with a cherry bomb, but, ..... that's another story. Norm ordered the cherry bomb fuse out of a magazine. He was good that way. Spliced it in for me and everything. Then there was the Cat Electrocuter that we built, but fortunately, the one and only time us two idiots used it .... no harm came to the kitty. What the hell are young boys thinking? Lord knows. I love cats. I've had them my entire life. What possessed us? Jeeeeez. I will pay in another life .... and rightly so. Please, no hate mail. Confession is good for the soul. And there were other
strokes of genius. We became involved in local politics at
this early age. (Cutting edge trend setters that we were.
NOT) To explain: Keyboardist Danny Johnson was
running for ...well, let me elude to his own words in quote.
"......that group helped make high school history. I
remember that I used the band to get elected yell leader of
Davis high and you guys used to play at the rallies because
the pep band sucked-and some coaches got together and wanted
me to stop using the rock band cause they were stupid
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