Tom Sawyer like tales for the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation
Jeff Roth started a band called Riot Act. Over the course of its existence, I believe half the musicians who ever lived in St. Louis and the surrounding vicinity were in it at one time or another. At the time, I was in a band called Soundtown. Yes, it is a crummy name, and I…
The old band got back together in celebration of the Retros CD release party at Off Broadway 2011.
Back in the day there was an underground punk club in the West End. By underground I mean that it did not have any of the legal normalities of a business. It was an abandoned building that Tony P. Dad owned and him and a lose conglomeration of people started a club. Club Op-P. Search…
One of the early bands I was in and the first punk band was a combo called the Camaros. I’ll be covering some of the fun and funny things that occurred in that band as I go along but here is the tale of the stranger who came to play harp. The Camaros were a…