After Nick and Moroni's departure we knew that finding another screamer was gonna be impossible so we didn't.Manny,the owner of the now defunct coffee shop, Navajo Joe's,wanted to form a band to play obscure and not so obscure late 50s early 60s guitar instrumentals(known to the hapless masses as "surf") we were up for it and learned a few.He had a couple of vintage fenders(a strat and a mustang) that were fuckin bad-ass.But(andthereareashitload of "buts") he moved down to phoenix.We still gigged about,a few times at a snob-infested bag 'o'pus coffee shop in GallupNM with the REZ MONKEYS,a cool blues band from ganado.In April of 99 we were set to play a free show with the rez monkeys at the UNMG campus but the shit-for-brains Director felt the flier (done by joe) was
"dissrespectful" and cancelled the same day we started posting em up.Reason given was that it'd be "too noisy" for the studying students.Then 2 weeks later the fucks hired a bean fartin mahala--mariachi band for cinco de may-o,fuckin loud as dokken,well that's Gallup for you. The same night,the rez moneys told us of a show at dine college so we went and played...fun...met a few good bands...that kinda started a little streak of gigs(3 times a month give or take a couple) throughout the summer/early fall. |
