Nails Photos
1979. Original 5 on NYC rooftop. L to R: Dave, Marc,
George,
Douglas, Tommy (Photo: Teri Bloom).
From same session as above. It was windy and cold on that rooftop.
(That wasn't my intended hair style (2nd from right) , but come to think of it,
it should have
been. :-) (Photo: Teri Bloom).
Aquarian Weekly, July 2, 1980. We were chosen "best unsigned band"
an honor
of dubious distinction. This is not a lab shot. We were on a rooftop
car park. Those
buildings are not the World Trade Center, they are the McGraw Hill building and
it's
sister building in Midtown 6th Avenue.
With Connie circa 1980? (Photographer unknown)
The departure of Connie and the arrival of Steve. (Photographer unknown)
RCA promo shot circa. 1984. L to R: Bruce Harris, Dave Kaufman, John
Ford (V.P.), Marc Campbell,
Steve O'Rourke, Douglas Guthrie, Terry Dunne, George Kaufman. I'm smiling
like a mofo, but I'm really
thinking, "How'd the h*ll did I get here?" Best part was after this
meeting and photo op, we left and hopped
in our respective cabs and went back to work or whatever. Getting signed
didn't mean getting paid. Other
than the small advance, it would be many months before RCA would approve a
budget. Meanwhile back to
our jobs.
"Foursome" shot for the Corpus Christi album. Circa. 1988. Mike
Ratti (left) became our drummer in 1985 and
played on our second RCA album Mood Swing.
(Photo by Victor Davila, Jr.)
1999 Reunion.
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The Kaufman's and Campbell. 2000, I think. Looks like we were playing in the closet. We were! For the love of Rock and Roll! We wrote 30 or 40 songs at those sessions but the project got derailed.
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Steve and Mike (under the loft bed). Mike's still got those sh*tty Roland drum pads and brain from the late 80's. The other people living in that building weren't too happy about what we were doing, real tubs would have created a lynch mob. This was Mike's rent-controlled flat in a tenement on 14th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) in NYC.