Category: The Checkmates
[This is from a collection of scenes, stories and little chapters that were left on the cutting floor now that Things We Lost In The Night is complete.] In early 1965, before the guys in…
I didn’t get to meet Debbie Reynolds the night she and her husband came to see us. My mistake, though our lead singer, Dave, had the honor. It happened on one of the most remarkable…
The History of San Francisco Music in the ’60s and its Influence Today Source: Summer of Love: The History of San Francisco Music in the ’60s and its Influence Today http://blog.freepeople.com/2015/08/summer-love-history-san-francisco-music-1960s-impacted-music-festivals-today/#ixzz3hyEI1g3i A look back…
NIGHT PEOPLE Book 1 – Things We Lost in the Night, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves ON SALE NOW for the next week – July…
In one of the earlier chapters of Look Back In Love, before I leave Indianapolis, everything is in turmoil. I’ve started the stub of a psuedo life, working at the RCA plant on the west…
LAS VEGAS HOTELS AND LANDMARKS IN 1966 A Two Night Stand at the Cat When Stark Naked and the Car Thieves came to play the Pussycat A’ Go Go in 1966, there were twelve major…
Pleasant Hill to Hayward, California via Crow Canyon Road networkedblogs.com When Stark Naked and the Car Thieves were still called The Checkmates, and were newly arrived in California, most of us lived inland around Pleasant…
Back when our band, then called The Checkmates, came to California, most of us lived inland around Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek because the first club we worked in was in Pittsburg, CA a few…