RandomKoolzip & ChavezSpeakstheTruth in our highschool band

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Yes I had dreadlocks

Our band was called Fistfull of Ugly. SouthoftheBorderPaul is just out of the frame of this pic. Thats our friend Todd "The Golden Boy" in the center. And obviously the multi-instrumental Random"Kid Goulash"Koolzip at the right!

Woohoo!

[GOPisEvil]

1. A band well-named.

;-)

Just kidding. I hope the pictures of me from high school don't end up on the web. :o

[ComerPerro]

44. ouch

damn

[terrya]

2. You were cute even then!

You don't mind a bit of objectivication, do you?

Let me know if you do.

T

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. If I did would I post pics of myself?

:)

[terrya]

7. True enough. Like the other day...

when you mentioned that your gay friends have complimented you on your bubble butt. :-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. thats right - fire away!!!!

It don't bother me none if someone says I look cute.

[terrya]

15. You're still cute a day later.

Well, you are. :-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Hee hee hee!

thank you thank you!

[Mara Steele]

4. HA!! So you were THOSE kind of kids....

I know the kind... ha ha ha... I think I bought weed from you a few times...

:D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. And acid mayhap?

:)

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Wow, Koolzip wasn't kidding!

Brother's probably 70 pounds less than he was back then!

He's like John Popper, without the sucking.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Oh yeah - we both weighed at least 20 more than now

we weren't.......successful with the ladies. I have no idea why!!!

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Well, you both look good now!

Er... Um... I mean that in a manly way, you know.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. Oh I know. its....um...cool, man

um...you too.



*awkward*

[RandomKoolzip]

12. You always post the good shit when I'm not around!

God, I was a fucking pig. Marijuana makes you eat a lot; that's my only defense.....

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. Pot makes you eat alot alot - and think that dreadlocks will get you in

those highschool panties I so longed for

[RandomKoolzip]

14. Dreadlocks won't; Vanillaroma and an '86 Honda Accord will.

What show was that?! I'm trying to rack my brain, but I can't locate it.


Can you believe I used to go through two bottles of Hydrogen peroxide a month to get my hair like that? Why, why, why?!?!? It looks so goofy, especially on a body like mine, wearing dashikis and bajas.

Regrets? I've had a few.

[AspenRose]

16. He posted the picture because he's going to run for Prez

a la Kerry ;-)

[BigMcLargehuge]

17. From Eddy Grant to Eddy Munster... a life in hair styles :)

Cool pic! My friends still have their band from high school days playing in and around New Bedford. Check out their site www.immortalalice.com

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. LOL!!!!!

There were other looks in between too!

nice site - I'll have to investigate fully!

[johnnie]

18. Cool...

What year is that?
I still play with the same 4 guys I did in school also. I started the band in 1977 (I was 12) and we still jam together.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. I'm saying 1993

the year we graduated

[RandomKoolzip]

21. That must have been our last high school show.....

Because you didn't have dreads until the winter of 92-93.

Todd on sleighbells!?!! What fucking show was this!?!?!?!?!?

I don't think you and I were getting along very well during this period, IIRC. I used to be an asshole, IIRC.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. Didn't we do a show after we graduated?

I don't know

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Two, actually.

Both Puppet House shows were after Graduation.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

29. Yeah but I seem to remember something odd at the hs - I mean why was

Golden Boy there?

[jukes]

22. Mara mentioned this foto y'day

glad it did a lazarus so i cd see those dreads! radical...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. see what drugs'll do?

oy vey!

[NewJeffCT]

26. dude!

You must have a hell of a personality to have landed a gorgeous babe like your fiance... ;-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. hahahaha!

I cook well my friend - very simple! :)

[RandomKoolzip]

28. Wait a minute!

Hey Chavez: at this point, we were clalling the band Father on Fire, remember?

Oh, well, it should have been Passive Fist anyways.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Thats it - I was sitting in with you guys!

And so was GB!

Thats the one Drew got all pissed at me and said I'm not allowed on stage again!

right?

[RandomKoolzip]

35. I have no idea why I'm drawing a blank here....

Usually my memory of this stuff is pretty clear. But Todd with Sleighbells? What possible song did we need sleighbells for? "Drums>Space?!"

Weird.

I Believe there was one last Battle of the Bands we did before Graduation, and we were the last act on the stage. I THINK. I dunno.

Drew got mad at you? How surprising. "You win, Josh...:"

[tigereye]

37. wow, bongos and dreads Chavez

too cool. Very cool picture of you and RKZ. Now let the blackmailing begin! Wish there were cool high school bands when I was in high school... I think there was only one and it wasn't cool. Although I did have the hots for half the jazz band... sigh. I had to wait til college to do the band thing.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. Where were you when I couldn't get girl 1 to talk to me

:shrug:

[tigereye]

39. well, I was in post-grad school

and making an album, and buying a house! And was already married. But I suspect that there were girls back then who would have been thrilled to hang with y'all, but were too shy to say so. Don't girls always like guys in bands? That's usually how that works. Well, they do until they start their own band. ;)



I was a "nerd" girl in high school, listening to Yes with my fellow nerd bf. I had to go to a high school in the city - I grew up in the sticks- to find a bf! Stoner guys were as weird as it got back then.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

40. Believe me - they were in my day - I was the wierdest. Tell you what...

I'll post some pics I drew as a lunatic stoner artist in Highschool - and I'll dedicate em to you. You make me feel like its ok to have been an underappreciated nerd (as do a whole buch of the great peeps here)

Tune in Tomorrow if you can!

[tigereye]

42. aw that's really sweet Chavez

actually we nerds tend to turn out pretty well. It pays off later on to be smart. I'll be around. I am having another easy/slacker week before my kid goes back to school. More time to DU and go to the pool one last time. boo-hoo.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

41. Where can I hear that album?

Give it up girl!
:)

[tigereye]

43. Close to the Edge

Close To The Edge

I. The Solid Time Of Change
Anderson/Howe

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour.
And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one.
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun,
And take away the plain in which we move,
And choose the course you're running.

Down at the edge, round by the corner,
Not right away, not right away.
Close to the edge, down by a river,
Not right away, not right away.

Crossed the line around the changes of the summer,
Reaching to call the color of the sky.
Passed around a moment clothed in mornings faster than we see.
Getting over all the time I had to worry,
Leaving all the changes far from far behind.
We relieve the tension only to find out the master's name.

Down at the end, round by the corner.
Close to the edge, just by a river.
Seasons will pass you by.
I get up, I get down.
Now that it's all over and done,
Now that you find, now that you're whole. :)


well I have the vinyl and husb has it on MP3. I am not that good at finding where these things are...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

45. If husband has it on mp3 - it means I could have it thusly!!!

Prettypuleez

I have a ton more Tranqs musiq to share with you!!!!

[tigereye]

46. let me see what I can do...

he has to find it. That would be cool. Hell, I was going to buy a used Yes compilation, since our turntable hasn't worked for a while.

[SarahB]

32. Where'd you guys go to high school?

Was it North Branford or something? :D

[RandomKoolzip]

33. Branford High School......

How did you know?!


"Go Hornets!" Whatever.

[SarahB]

34. I remembered something.

I'm a CT person, that's why. Wethersfield, Class of '90.

[RandomKoolzip]

36. Ah! No way!

Connecticut: the only state in the union that rhymes with "pathetic shit."

Oh, I'm kidding. I loved the place. Very beautiful, great pizza, etc. I'm living in Chicago now, and frankly there's no comparison (IMO, Chicago trumps all American cities, except maybe NY and Frisco.)

[Throckmorton]

47. I think I'm dating your aunt.

Or is that just some other dread locked teenage band techno-peasant geek Democrat from Connecticut.