\m/ 80's metal \m/

I formed a metal band called "Arch Angel" and we toured around the south for about three years on what we in the band called "The Dead Broke Torture Tour". I really paid some serious dues in my time with that band, but so did the other guys and it was more than worth it. We played everywhere from Florida to West Virginia and just about every state in the southern region of the country. Then in January of 1988 I finally made my way here to Memphis to play with "Mama Terra" because Philip (the bass player I had met in California, who I actually met in Las Vegas for the first time because he had stopped to visit his sister on HIS way to California,.... confusing I know) had called after he his self had come back to Memphis years earlier and asked if I wanted the gig. Our first show was at a place called "Nightmoves", and we were the "Detonaters" then. Tesla shows up after playing in concert with Def Leppard and sits in and plays three Montrose songs, man they were GOOD! After that we later won the Battle of the Bands just 2 months after I got here and went on to play regularly here in Memphis for about 3 years. During that time we did some demo's for Geffen records, and played some pretty big shows. We even had Joe Walsh's road manager as our manager for a while. I started giving guitar lessons on the side at a local music store here in Memphis that was called "Strings and Things" and landed the job as the "music advisor" for a television series that was filmed here in 1990 called "Elvis the early years".