August 07, 1985 - Los Angeles, CA

Show Day - Sunny/Warm

Woke late - the usual morning stuff. Show at Madame Wong's in Chinatown. Left about 3:30. After dinner at Carl's Jr. Chicken sandwiches are the kill - went to club.

LA Chinatown has an extensive website. We don't have Carl's Jr. restaurants here in Pennsylvania. I haven't heard anyone use the expression "the kill" in like...18 years.

Nice joint - sound check - good sound. Other bands "Lippy's Garden" and "Brando Talks" - bad keyboard synth rock pop shit. No good. We played a good set to about 20 people. Lee W. showed up. Our pal Lee. Met Texas Terry - real character.

I scrawled "NO PAY" in my notebook margin. Here's the website of a fellow who played drums for Lippy's Garden. He's gone on to do film work. You can order an old fashioned LP by "Lippy's Garden" here. The truth is, I have no memory of this show. I think the "Texas Terry" I reference is Texacala Jones from the band Tex and the Horseheads, but I could be wrong. I hope it wasn't this guy. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't this young lady either.

Left club 12-1AM - home to bed. All in house - Vince has been working on the van - change oil filter and adjusting the rocker arms. Still knocks a little. Hopefully it will get us home. Snooze.

Posted by Dean at August 7, 1985 11:47 PM
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I could feel the hatred you guys had for our music. We axed the keyboard player six months later and began opening for bands like Dramarama. Ok, not much progress. I remember someone wore a girl scout uniform at the chinatown show. Was that you?

-David Milhous (Lippy's Garden Drummer)

p.s.
Thanks for the link to my evolving website. The site has moved to http://users.adelphia.net/~milhous/

Cheers!

Posted by: David Milhous at February 21, 2004 08:53 PM

I had a Girl Scout uniform (socks, belt, and everything!), but I only wore it on stage once and, that was a show in Delaware. I am almost sure that I did not pack it for the first tour, but... my memory might just be wrong on this one.

Posted by: Blood at February 21, 2004 09:19 PM

I used to work at the Jockey Club in beautiful downtown Newport (you wouldn't believe what they've done with the place these days; Newport, not the Jockey Club; it's long gone) Kentucky, where the DM played lo those many years ago. I was the sound engineer for a Tex and the Horseheads show there in the mid-late-eighties and I may still have a cassette tape of that show buried amongst hundreds of other tapes in my possesion. Crazy band, crazy lady, LOTS of fun! I miss those daze.

Posted by: Jaz at July 17, 2004 03:06 AM