A Tahoe Trio
Ditte, Simonian, and Hahn
In Upper Truckee, Lake Tahoe
one summer,
three members of East Virginia became a new jam band
Jay Ditte on sax, keys, vocals,
flute,
Mark Simonian
on drums, and percussion,
and I played guitar and keys and sang.
We had been hanging out jamming and writing,and recording... and
living in
Huntington Beach, CA. It was a good
time. I had sort of dropped college after a semester or
two. Jay and his wife Sherry would let me sleep on the couch,
or I just slept in my van when I had to... it was a journey...
In Tahoe, we rehearsed again, for the gig at the local
Chalet,
but the music was becoming harder for me to bear as we tried to
work out
tunes, and I just was not into it...
I split and did the gig with John Davino on drums
and you know, it just left a bad impression, and I regret that I did it
that way.
Sorry, kids don't make the same mistake.
Maintain your integrity, "Maintain" as we used to say...