IMAGE
A quintessential 80’s high
school basement band
Image was my high school band. I mean, I played in more than one band in
high school, but this was the one that actually played “out”, albeit
infrequently.
We formed sometime during my sophomore
year in high school (1988-89) and only had two performances. I call it a basement band because that’s
where we practiced, but if you prefer the phrase “garage band”, it’s basically
the same thing.
We finished second to last in the
first annual Verona High School Battle of the Bands, so we kicked out our lead
singer (or he quit, depending on who you ask).
I ended up taking over the vocal duties so that we wouldn’t have to
cancel the show we had scheduled about a month later.
It was my first lead singing
opportunity. The band broke up a couple
of months later.
Here are some video clips from that
March 17, 1989 show at Something Different (which is sadly no longer there) in