TONIGHT ON VH1 CLASSICS: THE STUPID BUT DANGEROUS SESSIONS

[defrog]

The guitarist of my old band Violent Marshmellows (sic) found (and posted) some old pictures of us during the time we wrote and recorded the band’s second album (and my first with the VM), Stupid But Dangerous.



{A few tracks from which, incidentally, you can listen to in all their lo-fi badly-mixed glory on MySpace. If yr wondering, it sounds that way because back in the 1980s, children, computers were giant steam-powered boxes that ran on punch cards and a kilobyte of RAM, so we recorded it on cassette tape via a cheap boom box with a mixing mic jack. Ask yr parents or teachers what a mixing mic is.)

Anyway, what this means is that you can now see a photo of me strangling a bass guitar circa 1989.



Hooray for the Internets.

That’s our saxophonist/co-vocalist Jason in the back. He always knew to take cover behind the Casio when I started swinging that plank around like a goddamn rock’n’roll Claymore.

Yes.

Anyway, the full set is here if you want to see a piece of best-forgotten rock'n'roll history.

FACT: Clarksville, TN became known as Clarksvegas by the time we were finished with it.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Contrary to media reports, that is NOT a mullet on my head. I only cut my hair on one side in those days. From the opposite angle I just look like a long-haired chubby dude. So if you want to be technical, it was more like a half-twist quarter-mullet: “Business on the left, party everywhere else.” That was my deal in 1989.

I'll prove it.



See? Definitely not a mullet.

Rock’n’roll animal,

This is dF

Comments

[loissanborn.livejournal.com]

those pictures are great!!!!!

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

That's because they were taken by an art major. :)

[thelastaerie.livejournal.com]

Stupid, But Dangerous... that's a good album title. Nice pics

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

It was appropriate for us. So was our next album title: "Funny In Theory, Awful In Practice".