future. I may do this as more than one post, just to try to keep the captions matching the images...these were all taken at McMurdo Station
(except as noted otherwise)...okay, here we go:
This first shot is from my second season (1980-81): this is the band 'Herman Nelson and The Darts' in the Green Room (Construction Materials' Office), enjoying our 'Champagne on a Beer budget', fifteen minutes before showtime in the Carpentry Shop next door. From left-to-right: Paul Werner, rhythm guitar/carpenter (son of a Chase Manhattan Banker; he fled that scene and built himself a small cabin in the Idaho woods); Tony Waite, bass/welder (from Athens, Ga.; fresh off an incarceration for possession); Yours Truly, lead guitar/surveyor; my brother Neal, keyboards/clerk typist (aka 'Big Dick Cheezball and his Swingin' Organ', a year after graduating Valedictorian from the Monterrey Institute of Foreign Studies); John 'Sure-Eye' Wood, drums/Biolab Manager (oceanographic dude from So. Cal.); Danny Kelly, roadie/plumber (aka 'Big Boy'; crazy Irishman from Roxbury/Boston); Colin the Kiwi, drums/mess attendant (original drummer for the NZ band 'Pop Mechanix'). As usual, 'Herman', our lead singer, was nowhere to be found until thirty seconds before we went on...:
Afternoon before the show: setup/soundcheck in the Carpentry Shop: John W. playing my Tele upside down and me checking drumkit No. 1:
'Big Dick' warming up at his Wakeman-esque keyboard stack (note the Moog Rogue and the 'Swingin' Organ' itself, a Navy Special Services Farfisa):
