24 Years Since My Video Debut

On March 28, 1987, 24 years ago tonight, I recorded my first ever video concert as a member of The Watchmen Quartet. It was rough by the standards of stuff I produced in later years with my own group, but it was pretty exciting at the time.

I almost had a disaster that night. I was waiting off stage about 10 minutes before the concert began and decided to peek through the double doors to see if the building was full (it was). Just as I was peeking someone came through the other side and the door hit me right in the forehead and opened a small cut. I had a heck of a time getting that to stop bleeding before we walked on stage.

At one point a few songs in the lead singer looked over at me and said "your head's bleeding!". I quickly dabbed at it and it's not noticeable on the video.

Here's one of the songs featuring the impossibly skinny bass singer (I had just lost about 60 pounds thanks to diet and mono):