Petri Dish

First random item for the petri dish: A little story.
History of the Earthlings & The Placentia Underground:

We first cut our teeth to the riffs and chops of the Metal/Punk scene in the late 80's. We were in high school and full of energy and contempt for the Orange County middle class suburban status quo. The schools sucked, the parents were busy, the landscape was void of any sort of inspiration, either you were part of it, or you were bored and wanted to get out.

We started out bouncing from parents house to parents house trying to rehearse before they would get home and say 'what the hell are you doing?' and kick us out. Once we had a cop tell us that 'Playing amplified music was illegal in Placentia.' It sounds like 'Footloose' I know, but It was what he said. We asked if we could just play the drums since they were acoustic, but he was not amused.

Soon we started expanding our musical influences and styles to coincide with the mind expanding substances that we had been fortunate enough to stumble into, a friend of ours started a recording/rehearsal studio, and we had our first music scene of our own.

At this point I could pretty much write a book, and someday I might, about the next several years which blend reality, hallucination, dreams, and third person perspectives that I don't personally recall, into a memory too bizarre to usually delve into except for my own amusement.

Our first repeating line up of musicians was something like:

Steve Amlaw 'Zoney' - Drums
Dave Amlaw 'VIV' - Guitar
Colin Price - Guitar and Keyboards
Kevin Weber - Bass Guitar and Guitar
Lisa Vergovn - Vocals

We would play mostly improvised sets of Doors/Dead/VU influenced jams with a bit of punk and gothic influence blended in. I think we were pretty heavy stuff for the most part. I don't recall that we ever had a name we kept for more than a week or two with different musicians rotating in and out and what not. Some names we went by included - Nuclear Cadaver, The Space Corpse, and The Peacefull Songbirds of Love (which was a name we had to use for a high school event we played at where our first suggested name 'White Blotter' was rejected).

By the beginning of the 90's virtually everybody that I knew, including myself, had dropped out of high school. If there was such a thing as the Placentia Underground, I suppose we were it.

..............to be continued.

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