Q:
Tell me about the early garage band years starting the Young
Rumblers.
MY LARYNX WAS A BLOODY NUB
“The Young Rumblers' first gig was
February 24, 1984 at Bacchus, the on-campus club at the
University of Delaware. There were a bunch of bands, and we
went over pretty good, but of all the bands on the show, our
picture was on the cover of the widely read school newspaper
the next day. We ended up being in that paper a lot that
first year, and I really think it helped get people into us.
The band was me, Chaz Molins on bass,
and Mark Walls on drums. Mark quit after that first show--I
forget why--and my old roommate Brad Fish became the
drummer. After about six months Chaz was replaced by Paul
Slivka, who I had played with in a jazz group, and six
months or a year later Fishy quit 'cause it was just too
brutal. We
worked!
We played anywhere we could get paid,
and we were getting a lot of jobs. It was definitely full
time, and rough. We played 3 or 4 sets a night, traveled up
to 3 1/2 hours to a job, and worked 5 or 6 nights a week. My
larynx was a bloody nub! My fingers were literally split
open; I used to put crazy glue on them to close them up so I
could play, but when a string went in there, as they did
frequently, it hurt! I didn't care, I was gonna rock every
where we went! I took it personally, and there were no
excuses.”
