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To fully explain the origin of 'the band', we have to go into a little musical history that most of the chosen seven are probably not even aware of. And before we get into that history, we have to go even further back to a very brief tenure at the University of South Carolina in 1984.
I like so many other clueless freshman arrived wide-eyed and terrifed on the Gamecock campus with a chosen goal to pursue enlightenment in Business Adminstration. Yeah, right. God help those who still pick this degree, let alone achieve it. I started out pretty good, but somewhere along the way--and not too along the way--I got tripped up in self-paced astronomy. With this stumbling block firmly established within the first two months, I proceeded to do something that I would do several times later at many other schools of higher education: I threw the beautiful baby out with the bathwater. Not able to redeem myself in that subject of stars and planets; I stopped going to 'all' my classes and kept my mind busy--and off the future--while walking around the undiscovered city of my birth and playing basketball in the gym. Christmas break was just around the corner, and I simply had to put the thought out of my mind that I had thrown my future away--maybe we could try the army--and the family would soon know that that four-digit check for this semester had not been redeemed in studies and that there would most definitely not be a 'spring' semester for this young bloke.
I told the folks after a pre-Christmas dinner not knowing in the slightest what would be next. Turns out, dad was in the dramatic process of assembling a new and better band and a new and better road-crew and it wasn't more than a couple of minutes later that I knew I was going on the road to throw around some PA and lighting equiptment. I hadn't expected this at all and little did I know the actual road it would really lead me down--or up.
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