re: #172 William Lewis

Arg! You lucky so and so. I LOVED that band in high school. They were touring at one point opening for Gary Neuman (of “Cars”) and my best friend and I got tickets. Got there, laughed my ass off at my very faithful Lutheran friend try to avoid the shared toke from the gay couple next to us & then found out in shock that the Rat’s weren’t there because the night before their guitarist Garry Roberts (IIRC) had cut his hand badly and couldn’t play. They had “Solitary Dot” play instead & then Neuman. The openers were, well, not good and I had never heard of them before or again after. Neuman was just anther synth band. All in all a disappointing night.

I saw them in Chicago. They opened for Foghat and Rod Stewart was the headliner.