Why bother, you may wonder, to tell the tale in such detail of a band that lasted only a few months, copped their full measure of glory in their first gig, and faded out virtually unacknowledged, as we did. Firstly, popularity is not an infallible gauge of the value of creative output...
“Ross’s hands were a continual blur as he shot through the chords in supposed imitation of Johnny Ramone…” We were obsessed with speed at the time (not the drug BTW, which none of us ever touched) – in retrospect, rather to the detriment of the music. Our main criterion was “ho...