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The Dogs, The Wat, Pudenda, The Wat (reformed), Bump Cars, Wild Oscare, and BLaM














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Wat cover by Neal Warner, Bump Cars by DNL

Purchase BUMP CARS art and T-shirts here!

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My first band was by necessity, a band of the immagination; it was 1969 and none of us could play our instruments. The strange genius kid of Central High School in York PA back then was Dan Wilson. He and I were the core of this (mostly) imaginary band called The Dogs. In 1971 I moved to LA and played in a California neo-skiffle band jokingly called The Wat, a group of friends really. After living in Canada for a few years where I was starting a band cleverly called Pudenda, I returned to LA to reform The Wat. The Wat was for a few years a wonderful recording project which mutated into Wild Oscare and then BLaM with a brief side-trip called Bump Cars. Bump Cars' "Born to Screw" climbed to number one on Brandeis University's student radio station. BLaM had a great run through the twilight of LA's new wave club scene through 1981.
















A Tale of Two Cities: Eddy Detroit and De De Troit

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You can read the chapters in any order but their intended order is (1) Basic Values, (2) Eddy Detroit and (3) De De Troit. Click on the icons for the illustrated tale.

In 1982 I joined the De De Troit Band. I was working on my first album, DARK AGES, and the prospect of being a hired gun in somebody else's band was attractive. De De was from Detroit but was living a few houses up the street from me near Melrose and Normandy.

Despite the short distance from my place to hers, there were several musical connections which had to be made first before I could take that short walk, some happening simultaneously.

The characters of this story run the gamut: De De and Eddy are both cult figures now. Several local players encountered ascended into the land of musical success. One was even inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Most of the stages on which we performed have sunk into history.

LA 70s/80s Club data base (who played where, when)

Marty Jourard's memoir of the Motels

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