Post #67779 by Formikahini on Mon, Jan 5, 2004 4:57 PM

Ha! First one looong ago in The Trouble Boys (Austin, circa 1981 or '82 'til '83 or '84)

....when I waaaaas - EIGHT years old, that's the ticket!

Nah, but we were ok. Very traditional. No attempts to be psychobilly. The Clash liked us, though, and picked us to open for them, replacing Stevie Ray Vaughn (who was booed off the stage the first night!). They put me in the "Rock the Casbah" video (BRIEFly!) as a thank you, so I can claim one really cool punk rock thing (not that it wouldn't have been cooler to have been on "White Riot" or a song actually punk rock!)

(Unknown fact, for Clash afficiados: The song actually playing when the sheik and the Hassidic Jew were watching the band play was NOT "Rock the Casbah", but rather "Guns of Brixton", one of my FAVES. I'm dancing between the two guys, enjoying the hell outta myself....or was it "Spanish Bombs"? crap, the mind starts to go...)

But Sweetpea, I loved your buddy Bernie's husband's old band, the Rockats! Hung out with them some after Dexter had left. Got a great dress from her via eBay recently, BTW!