Manhattan at last! Living on 59th street and First avenue, working at Guitar World and on Vampirella comics as Art Director, writing on my four track, playing at numerous New York clubs. If I wasn't so broke it'd be perfect!

I'd left Tinderbox mainly because of a desire to work on more modern, intricate bass lines. I was getting stale on the '60¹s style verse/chorus/verse and traditional pop chord changes involved with their music. I also thought the drummer was a pain to play off of. I still loved the songs but I needed a new thing. That's when I joined The Other Room. Embarrassing but true, I've forgotten the names of the members of this group, but the songs structures were far removed from Tinderbox. It was a four piece (bass/drums/guitar plus vocalist) but unlike Tinderbox the singer didn't play guitar, or any other instrument as far as I can recall. The structure was more poetry set to music with her Grace Slick-like vocals cooing and katerwailing over a spare-but-heavy backing. I always felt the guitarists Rickenbacker guitar sound was too thin to handle the heavier parts, but they were the kind of group I was looking for. Unfortunately some misunderstanding between the singer and myself got me kicked out. I never knew what Id said and to this day don¹t know what happened.

Large Marge was an instrumental rock guitar band I formed with fellow Guitar World-ers Bob Beucler on drums and Greg DiBenidetto on guitar. Great fun while it lasted. But my attention was to soon be focused on the best band I ever had, Sister Someone.