The Strange and Lurid Tales
A Beginning
In the beginning there was a band called Itchy Brother. Itchy Brother was transformed into Johnny Alligator by the departure of the Lightcap brothers as their family moved away to Delaware. Ira also left the band about that time although I cannot remember why. All of this is kind of sketchy but I think it happened in early Winter 1973. It had to happen before Spring of 1973 because that is when Johnny Alligator came to be. We spent several weekends and the entire Easter break putting the band together at the Marion VFW. Itchy Brother had played the 8:00 a.m. kick off of the Florence Walk-a-thon in Timrod Park. Johnny Alligator's first official gig was the thank you dance for Walk-a-thon participants held at the National Guard Armory. Lightning struck the barn out at the farm and burned up all Jenkins's Ear's equipment. Only the strong survived and the Johnny Alligator line-up changed again.
More to come...
...stay tuned for lurid tales from the Ark of Sin and the Crab Cab like The 40 Days and 40 Nights, the Riverboat in July with no AC, sassafras popsicles at Joe's OD beach house, New Year's Eve at the Downtowner in Fayette-nam with DDSIOS and magic fingers, mooning in Moonville, the Kingsport Queen, Jake Scott at the Pumphouse, TV dinners in Sparkle City, the Mr. Skinny Contest at the Tale of the Fox...strange and lurid indeed. Full disclosure of said lurid tales will not occur until applicable statues of limitations expire.