Albums 'n' Stuff...
The cover of our first album - Art by Jerry Rudquist.
The cover of BTC Live on the Psych Bike (out of
print and not available anywhere. Even I don't have a copy).
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Albums 'n' Stuff...
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The cover of the first CD we appeared on: Break the Silence. |
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The cover of our first album - Art by Jerry Rudquist.
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The back cover of same, photo by Frank DeBois. |
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The cover of BTC Live on the Psych Bike (out of
print and not available anywhere. Even I don't have a copy).
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The cover of our second album, The Funk Bus. |
It's Time To Get On Board....
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(currently unavailable)
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A School Bus, in the process of becoming the Funk Bus. (interior) |
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A School Bus, in the process of becoming the Funk Bus. (exterior) |
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Inside the Funk Bus, on the road, when the inside was almost complete. Sleeps six. Like the airplane seats? |
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The Funk Bus standing outside of CBGB in the Bowery,
NYC
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The Funk Bus took us to some good places. Here Chris and Ken are returning from a romp on the beach in South Carolina. |
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In the middle of the hardest tour we ever did. We voted
four or five times on whether we should just pack it in.We drove all night
from Paradise in North Carolina to an empty unfinished theater in Buffalo
for no money, and then the exhaust manifold self-destructed. Ken spent
most of the next day like this.
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Tommy and I spent the evening in Chicago with a friend and his girlfriend (who went on to form Veruca Salt a few years later). After a good night's drinking, there's nothing like a little cheese. |
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The inside of the bus was every bit as glamorous as the
outside, as this picture shows.
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The Funk Bus where it stood for 2 years on a farm in Chaska, MN. Chris and I had to kick out a big family of mice. We even found a nest in the engine's air cleaner. Amazingly, the bus started right up |
Another shot of the bus |
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The Boys...
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A polaroid of the boys, including Pat "rude dog" Kulisheck
and me (holding the pitcher of beer) after a REALLY GOOD GIG (yeah, right)
at a club in south Manhattan called Downtown Beirut 2.
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The whole band, including Pat and Me, facing into the sunset on Martha's Vineyard (check out the postcard in Ken's hand), at Gay Head Point. Photo by Ellis Mogan, a superfan from Minneapolis, who packed 5 of us into her VW bug with her when she met us at the port. (Jimmy ran behind) Not bad when you consider that there was an extra tranny in the back seat, too. |
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teeny-tiny shot of Chris and Ken jamming at The Yacht
Club in Iowa City
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Random Shots...
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The winner of the coloring contest from our late, lamented
newletter, The Meantimes. A fan had made a drawing of the band
while we played at the Mirror Lounge in Duluth, MN. We offered a first
prize of dinner with the band, to be cooked by Ken. The winner was Courtney
Calton, of St. Paul. We liked it so much that we used her dad's company,
Calton Design, to layout the art for our first CD
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