This piece is a trip. I was in bands that played The Blue Lamp. My brother lived above All You Knead, a couple doors down from the author, near the Free Clinic.

Touch Me Hooker were friends of mine. Paul Casteel hid from the cops in my attic, across from Petrini's on Fulton.

Touch Me Hooker's rhythm guitar player was "Fast Eddie", who ran Rockin' Bowl, and did sound/lights for The I-Beam - both on Haight.

Sal, the drummer, was the original bartender at Zeitgeist.

Frankie Lennon, lead guitar in the band, was son of Carol Lennon, who owned the Capp St. Studios, where half the bands in San Francisco had rehearsal time, including two of mine.

Touch Me Hooker were named for an incident that Paul Casteel, the singer, had witnessed at the teller line in the Wells Fargo, next to the 16th St BART station, at Mission.

Paul had another band at the time, House Of Wheels. They are also forgotten, but they peeled the paint off the walls, at their Debut in Nightbreak.

Damn. They should have been bigger than Faith No More, that's for sure.

In '88 a lot of clubs were having acoustic nights. Mostly really 'sincere' singer songwriter stuff. Eddie, the Touch Me Hooker guitar player and I did an acoustic set for a couple of months, as The Young Dukes. Five originals we'd collaborated on like Glam Rock on Spanish guitar.

The Young Dukes would encore with The Man Who Sold The World, way before Nirvana "unplugged" this.

I wore satin knee britches and silver buckle shoes.

"I've played David Bowie on a kazoo made from my comb under stage lights. We're not the same."