Photo of the Day

POD 2 X's and no comments? What about that funny looking guitar with too many necks? The extreme flat-top? Everyone looking floorward? And the amp comments? Where are they? The sparkle on that drumset does remind me of a certain Slingerland set I owned and then defaced with orange-patterned contact paper. Hey, it was the 70's man- we did crazy like all day every day.

I can say something about this photo, I'm the guy on the right. That doubleneck Mosrite once belonged to Davie Allan and it's the one he has been photographed with. I believe Mel brought it to the convention a couple of years ago for Davie to play. The haircut is from Art Robles in Camarillo, CA. The drums are Trixon from Germany, like Dave Clark's first drum set. This set was once blue sparkle but turned silverish in some parts from sunlight exposure. I believe Sheryl Crow's drummer bought this set from Don after he bought a purple set of Trixon's that he used at the Huntington Pier Surfin' Sundays and Tiki Oasis. We played at this spot with the Razorblades from Germany and another time with Els A Phonics from Spain. We broke up after that and Don is back playing with the newly reformed Seeds.

Mel and I would trade off playing bass at first and we did mostly covers. We eventually dropped the bass and went with 2 guitars. I had lots of fun and got to play some of Mel's vast collection of the very coolest vintage gear, but I couldn't take the traveling to out of town shows part of it so it ended.