CRUD

I left "The Heard" at the end of the summer of 
1967.  I returned home and lived with my parents in St. Helena, and started work for Napa County.  I never stopped playing music, and by the summer of 1968 was itching to play in front of people again.  There was a local hairdresser named Warren Wilson who played rhythm guitar, and a drummer named Danny Penland who played drums.  There was also a keyboard player whose name escapes me (? Nichols?).  We formed a group named "Crud".  We played for 2 or 3 teen center dances during the summer.  We never had a bass player, and that affected our sound (we called ourselves "the band with no bottom").
 
One of Crud's defining moments was at a teen center dance when yours truly and his sick sense of humor carried a toilet onto the dance floor.  I sat on the toilet, played a short tape with the sound of a flushing toilet, then proceeded to sing Tiny Tim's "Tip Toe Through The Tulips", complete with falsetto.  Nobody laughed!
 
I moved away from St. Helena in the fall of 1968, and that was the end of "Crud".

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