Starting Out

     I've been with them since the beginning.  
They formed the name at Caufield's house.  It 
just sort of went from there.  They started out 
in a small town in Pennsylvania called Unionville.  
They were just a group of girls goofing off, but 
they had fun.  They had the name before they even 
had the band.  They hired me to be the roadie when 
I stumbled out of a bar dead drunk and half naked.  
Since I was broke, I decided to take the job, 
although they couldn't promise any paying gigs.  
It was pretty easy though at first, since they didn't 
have any instruments.  But anyway, once they knew some 
tunes, having a band got easier.  The first gig 
was in a barn on Street Rd.  It was basically a 
humming, singing, elbow-slapping hoedown.  I think 
some clog dancers were there.  Probably about 20 or 
30 people came.  Not bad for a start.  They only charged 
50 cents per couple.  The crowd all looked like they were 
having a good time, tossing pitchforks about and all, 
so they thought, "If we're this good humming, imagine 
how good we could be with instruments."  That was 
actually a little harder.  Their favorite part was 
banging the instruments against the stage.  Heh.  
We had a good time in that old repossessed house 
in Mortonville.  They were crazy.  Then they became 
a real band.

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