Hey so we were killing it playing on Abbey Lane for Christsakes!!! We had to be the next Beatles. Oh well we practiced in that gordforsaken cellar for 2 years straight. So clueless talking about playing out!!! That was the goal to "play out". What hte hell did that mean a high school dance playing covers, well shit, I wasn't very interested in that!!! A copycat band, great so I always thaought that meant you could play some chords and now you were a fucking manmade copy machine to sell records or justify the greatness of bands that had hits!! It was ludicrous!!! They were already hits and yeah I understand that 15 year old teenagers want to dance to Colour My World so they have the first chance to experience a boner, and really connect with some girl. But I had no use for it at all ! If I did a cover song I promised myself from that day forward it would not be a accurate cover song, what is the purpose of that? They already wrote it, it was a hit big fucking deal!!! If it can be done differently fine otherwise NO DEAL!!! write your own fucking songs, be your own person, get some balls. So the band like the first one broke up on Abbey Lane, but it was far from over, and far from being what it became. We rented a space in Hyde Park, it was the scene there, there was probably 16 other bands trying to do exactly, what I wanted to do!!! I loved it it was exhilarating, it was creative, it was art.I didn't care, it felt like home to me. We got this crazy drummer and this new lead guitar player who I had played one gig with way back when. We rented the space and we were on our way!!! It was treasured ground and a creative breakthrough. It was also organic, a lot of the bands although competing, became good friends. What an atmosphere. It was real.