Demise rumors not exagerated, but I got better!

[tom4bren]

Yes, I was starting to wonder if it was something that Zeus said.

[tomdietrying]

Yeah, welcome back!
Peace.
Tom
012009

p.s.
I know how to make '09 great. Go to Moab in May!!!

[johnnyapollo]

Welcome back Wayne - now if we can just get Joe Black to post it'll all be back to normal.

-- John

[tom4bren]

"I CONSTANTLY wonder who I have pissed off. Don't mean to, just happens."

We just like having fun at your expense.

[Chopper]

I CONSTANTLY wonder who I have pissed off. Don't mean to, just happens.

Chopper, I ran across Prong's first album last week - 1987! I had no idea they started that long ago. Do you have all 6 albums?

Yeah, plus some old board tapes somewhere. I played in "Burn Victim" back then. We were a sacrificial warm 'em up act in the Phila./N.York area. We played in front of Prong quite a few times at Seton Hall U. at the Brick Inn and a few other places. One nite, at the Brick...it was Burn Victim, Carnivore (Pete Steele before Type O) and Prong. Prong shows were becoming famous for giant brawls in the audience, so naturally Steele opens up by throwing buckets of pig blood and organs on the crowd....that was it. Complete chaos erupts, everything is getting torn up....equipment included. Not a note ever got played. The Brick filed suit for damages on Steele, and none of us were ever invited back (lol) I was happy to get out alive, screw going back. Ahhhh, college bands...God Lives Under Water was another from that period. But they actually had talent (lol)

[Chopper]

Steele was a giant! He was 6'7'' or more...talk about presence...he'd stick out in a Times Square New Year party. He was a city worker for NYC and had a thing for heavy equipment, and home-made Mad Max machinery. The dude was a character till the day he died. (and a hell of a welder)

[Chopper]

I haven't been up there in 15 years, but an old friend called a few years ago and said he'd died. I just took it at face value, certainly didn't seem improbable for the maniac I'd known...but I'd never given it any thought since. Just another interesting chapter in a very convoluted life. I wouldn't be suprised to learn he was cutting out paper angles and devils with the pope,in Togo. (hope he's still making Armeggedon machines in his Brooklyn backyard...he was a talent with metal)