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After I returned from 'nam, the world had changed. We all died a little in that war. So I traded my rifle for an electric guitar at the local pawn shop. The guitar was more powerful and much louder. I don't recall much from the 70s. I had some stains on my bell bottoms that used to remind me of some bad love, so I dyed them pink and I've been wearing them ever since. By the early 80s, I was touring with my disco revival band, "The Hot Velvet Boogies", but we were ahead of our time. We found out the hard way that fans still hated disco and we'd have to wait a few years until they realized that pop music had just gotten worse and disco wasn't so bad after all.After our manager ran off with my third wife, I landed a deal in 1984 with Rotten Apple Records recording three albums of children's heavy metal music and cleaning their bathrooms. They gave me a place to sleep and some food occasionally, but they also introduced me to the great prophet and lounge singer Reverend "Make Love not" Worley who changed my life by showing me the spiritual path of "The Platform Soul". The next five years were a blur of rehab clinics, postdocs, and gigs at the Laundromat, but all the while learning more and more about the Way of the Platform Soul and incorporating the Reverend's teachings into my emerging musical style "Disco Zen Blues."
In the early 1990s, I was hired by the Republican Party to write campaign music and make campain buttons for Reagan. Needless to say, they just didn't understand my music, and they didn't believe that my dog at the time, Heroin, ate most of the song book the night before the rally. I stayed up all night with Heroin trying to re-write the songs, but when I explained it at the rally, the crowds got upset and I was arrested again. I spent the next few years in prison. When I was released in 1993, some guy I met in the bathroom playing drums in the stalls (hired as a hotel scope-man who called himself SpotCheck Billy) ran off with Heroin (the cat really dug animals!!), and I returned to Reverend Worley to get my money back. When I got out of the hospital, it was 1996, and I spent the next two years trying to figure out what happened to the last two years. I never did, but the years in prison and the time I spent in a coma at the hospital helped develop my "Disco Zen" style of music. It was in prison that I was introduced to the talented drummer Joe Scarpachi, alias Austin Powers, who was soon released under witness protection for turning state's evidence against an unnamed pornography producer. The late 1990s were a whirlwind of Ramada Inns and amusement parks for the newly formed "Fuzzy Funkers". It was a magical time for disco revival, but the free drinks soon got the best of everyone. Lacking the funds for a good alcoholics rehab program, we made our way to the Dee-Licious Methadone Clinic in Cleveland where met fabulously talented, rich, and classy, De Dee Brookshire.
Having never encountered a woman with class and morals, we were all arrested again outside of a Canton massage parlor in 2001. Then next year in the Ohio State prison system solidified our musical direction and introduced us to the bassist "Groovy" Gary Whiting. As we celebrated the jury's "not guilty" verdict for Gary's murder in 2002, we had the fortune of accidentally blowing up the van owned by bassist Greg "do the" Bump. Since the members of Greg's band, "The Urinals", were in the van at the time, and he needed a ride home, he fled the scene with us and was blackmailed into joining our band. To avoid further legal problems, in 2003 we changed our name to "The Strange Loves" and we've been jammin' our own brand of Retro Disco Zen music ever since.