Kahuna

Promo Pic - Sometime in 1989
Jimmy's Music Club, New Orleans, LA
Our "bad boy" promo pic. We were a bunch of grizzly vets at the age of 16 and 17, eh? Yet we played the second-hottest (back then) music club in New Orleans, Jimmy's, at this ripe age on a monthly basis. Sure, we're underaged in a bar - but not by much, as Louisiana and Hawaii were the last two states still clinging to the 18 year-old drinking age. (You can still drive solo and be fully licensed at age 15 there.)

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Sixteen Dominican Highschool Girls' Sweet 16 Party - April 7, 1989
The Botanical Gardens of City Park, New Orleans, LA
Too bad this pic isn't in color. We threw together the ugliest outfits we could find. That's a tie-dyed shirt, thermal undershirt, bright green Duckheads, and a satin tie that had a piano keyboard going down it!

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Sweet Sixteen for the Sweet Sixteen
Botanical Gardens in City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
Pre-dating MTV's "My Sweet 16", sixteen Domincan girls hire us to play for their huge party. Looks like I've had just about enough of the professional photographer. Too bad it's in black and white - my tie-dye plays beautifully against my bright green Duckheads. Not to mention my powder-blue satin piano tie.

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After-school practice at the Subway (our practice room in the back of the Fitzmorris mansion on the corner of Canal Street and Filmore in Lakeview, New Orleans.)
That would be my senior ring and a smock that I acquired from my car wreck days.

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"Singing" my heart out during a gig at Jimmy's Music Club in Uptown New Orleans. I'm 15 or 16 years old in this pic.

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Tuning up before a show backstage at Jimmy's Music Club. Nice backstage area, huh?

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A Kahuna practice usually devolved into an excuse to have a party. Please ignore the beer cans and smoking. We are under aged and that must have been left around by some adults.

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Page literally ripped straight from my scrapbook. Includes our business card and some show listings from New Orleans newspaper's entertainment section, Lagniappe. Apparently some people don't know how to spell our name, either.

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My band was playing for an annual bonfire party at LSU, just two months into my college carreer.
This is the ad that appeared in the LSU newspaper, The Reveille. Make sure you notice what is not only paid for, but actually advertised (bottom right corner of the ad). Only at LSU will you see an ad in the official school newspaper for a party held on campus, by a dormitory, that advertises booze.

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Kahunalen
We won the highschool air-band contest three years in a row (we only deserved it for two of them, but we were given the legacy nod during our senior year.) Our Van-Halen was the favorite. We occasionally broke into it (spontaneously) live.
I wish you could appreciate how high we jumped; look where the stage is.

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Late 1980s New Orleans Musical Family Tree
Lots of incest!

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Hoerner Fest III Flyer

Every year the Hoerners (part of Metal Rose) threw a big party. One of a couple we played at.

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