After years of garage bands that pretty much stunk, someone invited me to a party at the Badd Azz practice house. They were jamming all original tunes that kicked ass! The only problem was that they didn't have a singer. I ended up getting up on stage and jamming with them and they soon asked me to join the band. It was my first opportunity to work with some really good musicians.  The Band consisted of Carl Chaney on vocals, Ernie Murray on bass, Preston Montgomery on drums and Fred Lerch on guitar. Ernie and Fred were originally from Ohio and Preston and I were the Texas boys. One of the Founding Members of Badd-Azz, Kim Garrison, had recently left the band to move to Witchita Falls to help rebuild after a tornado that hit in 1979. He was somewhat of a local legend because he was a phenomenal guitarist even after losing part of his left hand in an accident. Anyway, we had a practice house where we threw wild parties and played until the wee hours of the morning.  You see, our practice house was secluded, so no one complained.  This is a picture of me singing at one of those parties.  We used dry ice to get the fog effect.  We did mostly original music and even  won a battle of the bands.  It was great, but doomed to failure for the same reasons as most other bands.