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--- person:ille_homine_albe [2018/07/27 00:26] – Added some links to music, fixed some dead links digital man
+++ person:ille_homine_albe [2018/07/28 00:16] – Minor edits digital man
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 {{:person:scan0019.jpg?300|Rob, at home on the phone, 1986}}
-I didn't immediately join another band though I was jamming with some friends and auditioning for other bands. Eventually Dave called me to say that Dresden had found a singer, Baron Knight, and asked if I would rejoin the band. We had all been screening singers while I was in the band and I remember rejecting a singer named "Baron" because I didn't like his demo tape (in particular, his singing on it) and I wondered if this was the same guy. I agreed to meet the guys at their new studio in Santa Ana, California and meet this new singer and sure enough it was the same guy I had previously rejected. Somewhat reluctantly, I rejoined the band with assurance from Dave and the rest of the band that we would be playing gigs and recording eminently.
+I didn't immediately join another band though I was jamming with some friends and auditioning for other bands. Eventually Dave called me to say that Dresden had found a singer, Baron Knight, and asked if I would rejoin the band. We had all been screening singers while I was in the band and I remember rejecting a singer named "Baron" because I didn't like his demo tape (in particular, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swfaoa8PJtc|his singing on it]]) and I wondered if this was the same guy.
+{{:person:baron_knight_with_cassle.jpg?300|Baron Knight (second from left) with his former band, Cassle)}}
+I agreed to meet the guys at their new studio in Santa Ana, California and meet this new singer and sure enough it was the **same guy** I had previously rejected. Somewhat reluctantly, I rejoined the band with assurance from Dave and the others that we would be playing gigs and recording eminently.
 {{:person:scan0012.jpg?500|Rob Swindell, Baron Knight, Karl Johnson, Dave Codde, 1988}}
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 {{:person:scan0011.jpg?500|Steve Deppe, Rob Swindell (drums at least) and Baron Knight, 1988}}
-We worked hard to refine our set and integrate Baron and prepared for our first gig with the new band name "Threshold" (the name Dresden was taken by some other more established bands). The gig was just after my high school graduation, in 1988, at the club then known as "Goodies" in Placentia, California. We were on the bill with 3 or 4 other bands and we were definitely not the headlining act ("Reinkus Tide" was). It took us about 20 minutes to get our massive amounts of gear on the stage and plugged-in (my electronic drums never did work for this show), so our set was cut short to about 20 minutes.
+We worked hard to refine our set list and integrate Baron and prepared for our first gig with the new band name "Threshold" (the name "Dresden" was now known to have been used by some other, more established, bands). The gig was just after my high school graduation, in 1988, at the club then known as "Goodies" in Placentia, California. We were on the bill with 3 or 4 other bands and we were definitely not the headlining act ("Reinkus Tide" was). It took us about 20 minutes to get our massive amounts of gear on the stage and plugged-in (my electronic drums never did work for this show), so our set was cut short to about 20 minutes.
 {{:person:dresden-threshold_gig_tickets_from_goodies_1988.jpg?500|Ticket Stub for the Dresden (Threshold) final gig}}
+All in all I think //we// thought we performed pretty well although:
+  * The song tempos were definitely accelerated due to adrenaline (mine)
+  * Karl's friend who worked the sound board didn't get the memo: //this// band was "all about the keyboards"
+  * We were a bit bemused by Baron's "bumble bee" outfit
 {{:person:scan0013.jpg?500|Steve Deppe, Baron Knight, Rob Swindell, Karl Johnson, and Dave Codde, 1988}}
-All in all I think we thought we performed pretty well (the tempos were definitely accelerated due to adrenaline and Karl's friend who worked the sound board didn't get the memo that the band was "all about the keyboards"). Someone recorded video without audio and we got an audio recording from the sound board on cassette tape. When we later listened to the audio recording of the show, we sat in stunned disappointment. This gig led to the dismissal of Baron and Karl and not too long after, Dave would move to northern California and then back to central California for career and family reasons, leaving just Steve and I to move forward with the music.
+Someone recorded video without audio and we got an audio recording from the sound board on cassette tape. When we later listened to the audio recording of the show, we sat in stunned disappointment. This gig led to the dismissal of Baron and Karl and not too long after, Dave would move to northern California and then back to central California for career and family reasons, leaving just Steve and I to move forward with the music.
 {{:person:scan0014.jpg?500|Steve Deppe and Rob Swindell, 1988}}

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