"ANGEL OF THE ODD"
It all started many nights ago. I wanted to play music and I found myself in Baldwin Park, California with a group known as Flaming Creatures. They needed a drummer that could play non-stop, like a drum machine, for endless amounts of time. The old drummer couldn't hang, so I volunteered. I met and rehearsed with Rick, Random and Gratz. My life was never quite the same.....
Some of the clubs (with dates) that Flaming Creatures performed at:
1983
Dittos 3/9
Shamus O' Brians 4/7
Dittos 4/15
Roxannes 5/1 ($0.25 Hot Dogs & Beer)
Cattleman's Wharf 5/11
Roxannes 6/19
Cattleman's Wharf 7/14
Roxannes 11/25
Roxannes 11/26
After awhile, Gratz and I started another group. I located an old radiator shop in Monrovia, rented a tiny room on the side for $200/month and put bars on the door and window. Gratz's buddy Rudy could play bass so, I bought a bunch of equipment for him and we started rehearsing. Michael (Satori) came on-board as our vocalist and that was the way it was....for awhile. Rudy had to take care of some personal business and Jeffery stepped in to play bass. Later on, Satori himself had some issues and, after ages of interviewing and auditioning, Cecilia came on board. Although there were numerous vocalists thoughout the lifespan of AOTO, Michael and Cecilia+- made the most impact.
And then there was....
Angel Of The Odd
1984
I will include, if possible, the other groups that performed along with us.
Roxannes 2/5
Oscar's Corner 2/15 (Miraj)
Roxannes 3/4 (Flaming Creatures)
Roxannes 3/23 (Legion)
The Lighthouse 4/2 (Master Volume, Raconteur)
Madam Wongs East 4/3
Club 88 4/8 (The Motion, Chaos by Design)
Roxannes 4/13 "Friday the 13th" (Diamond Dogs)
Roxannes 4/27
The Ice House4/30 (Mayhem)
Monrovia High School 5/8
Roxannes 5/12 (Legion)
Blue Lagune Saloon 5/15 (Blowin Samoans, Le Jump)
Madam Wongs East 5/21
Roxannes 6/16 (Satori and Gratz)
Roxannes 7/14 (Flower Leopards, Legion, C.O.C.)
Roxannes 8/18 (Flaming Creatures)
Madam Wongs East 8/22
Oscar's Cornhusker 9/19 (The 100th Monkey, The Dull)
Late Halloween Event on Norumbega 11/3 (Flaming Creatures)
1985
Madam Wongs East 3/7
Madam Wongs West 4/11
Club 88 4/28 (Bysk, Boioiee)
Madam Wongs West 5/26
Madam Wongs East 8/1 "Record Release Party"
Anti-Club 8/13 (Factory, Enrique Berman, B.P.S.)
Madam Wongs West 8/20
Ronnie's 11/7 (Feeliacs)
Ronnie's 12/19 (Potter's Field)
1986
Ronnie's 1/11 (Cargo Cult, Looking Blue)
Ronnie's 2/1 (Crankshaft, Fortune Sons, Syntax)
Anti-Club 2/9 (Citadel, Exobiota, Two Pound Loaf)
Ronnie's 2/15 (Cargo Cult, Looking Blue, Nine - o - Nine)
Anti-Club 2/19 (Sacred Order, Rick Parker, Maids of Honor)
Madam Wongs West 5/17
BeBop Records 6/12 (The Reign)
Madam Wongs West "Upstairs" 6/27
The Sacred Club 7/12 (Apache Dancers, Heather K. Burke)
The Anti-Club 8/13 (Factory, Voice Text, B.P.S.)
Acrophobia 8/16 "Police Raid on Warehouse Roof" (Factory)
Television Show aka Amusement Park 8/31 "Bats not Bombs"
The Scream 9/19 (Faith No More, Grand Manner)
The Scream 10/30 "Halloween Scene" (Janes Addiction, Speciman, Human Drama, Skeleton Crew)
The Scream 11/28
Nyctophobia "The Club" 11/13
Madame Wongs West 12/19 (Tin Brood)
1987
The Scream 1/24
The Anti-Club 2/12
Jay Cranes House "St. Valentines Day Masscarra" 2/14 (Flaming Creatures)
The Anti-Club 3/11 (Swamp Zambies, Bell Jar, The Fugitive Kind)
Madam Wongs West 9/26 (The Dig, Elan, Man about town)
Andy's 10/18
The Anti-Club 10/29 (Beltane,Playing With Fire, Grenpetr)
The Anti-Club 12/9 (Cleanhead, The Fixtures, Mike Runnel)
The Green Door 12/11 (Desperation Squad, Building Bridges)
1988
The Green Door 2/19
The Whiskey 4/21(Loveless, The Characters)
The Green Door 4/15 (Rain Parade, Disarray, The Ploy)
The Anti-Club 4/27 (Soko, The Walk, Aka 2000)
Club Sunset
The Whiskey 6/11 (Desire, Postage Due, Eclipse, Rings of Saturn)
Hapihaus 7/29
KCRW 8/7 "Live on The Air"
The Anti-Club 8/10 (Belimia Banquet)
Bogarts 8/28
The Palomino 9/18 (John Newman & the Lemmings, Red Temple Spirtis)
The Blitz Club 9/23
Bogarts "Esoteric Night" 10/26
The Gaslight 10/10 (Babylonian Tiles)
Goodies 11/10
The Club House 12/17
Corpus Cavernosium 12/18 (Jack, Vicious Fiction, Spalsh Shattered)
1989
Monrovia Holiday Inn "Universities Unite" 3/3
The Electric Temple "Record Release Party" 5/18
The Anti-Club 6/29 (Jaded Apes, Morbid Flatulance)
Bogarts 7/16
Club 88, 8/19 (Rubes, Mason)
Coconut Teaser 8/21 (Spiderbaby, Ultra Violet Eye, Picture This)
Club Dead 9/12
The Troubador "International Showcase" 9/17
Madam Wongs West 9/27 (Babylonian Tiles, Cast of Thousands)
Club Lingerie "Radio Tokyo Record Release Party" October ?
(Del Rubio Triplets, 13th Step, The Ringlings,Holy Sisters of the GaGa Dada)
Club 88 10/6 (Babylonian Tiles, African Violets)
The Shamrock 10/7 (Ultraviolet Eye, Left Insane)
Halloween at Ellis Island 10/28 (Green Jello)
The Palomino 10/29 (Babylonian Tiles, Hidden Colours)
Mad Hatters Tea Party 10/31 (Babylonian Tiles, Haunted Garage)
Taka-O's 12/2 (Babylonian Tiles)
Al's Bar 12/9 (Babylonian Tiles)
Run Against Huger, San Diego 12/10
The Casbah, San Diego 12/10 (Babylonian Tiles)
1990
Taka-O's 1/6
Taka-O's 2/9
Nirvana Society's 2/10
Simons Cable TV 2/11
2nd Coming 2/17 (Del Rubio Triplets, Lisa Dickerson, Ringling)
Songs
Hiding from fears
Sheila
Slave
Will be Last
Field of Shadows
To the Fire
Darker Side
Terror Couple
Infinite Tunnels
Dying Within
August 8th
Rainy Day
Reviews
The Highlander, 11/18/85, Rob Davis - Concert Review
Music Connection Magazine - Concert Review
Rock Bop Magazine 11/89
Flip-Side Magazine, Mid Summer Issue #61
Option Magazine
The lil' Rhino Gazette
Ben Is Dead
Maximum Rock-N-Roll
Scatter Balance #1, 1989
Record Rotation
KSCU, Santa Clara, Ca
WJUL - Top 45's, Lowell, Mass
KAOS - Olympia, Wa
WUSB - Santa Barabara, CA 7/89