I got them a gig playing live on Pat Duncan's through Dave Parasite, whose terribly-named band I was kind of in for a few months when I was at Seton Hall (just a handful of practices, no shows).
O.k. - stop - this is better than any Chinatown reveal - you were in the PARASITES??
Once when Chisel (oh yeah - talk about bad band names - I was in a band called "Chisel" - WTF?) was doing Pat's show, Dave got so mad at me for goofing around on an older song of theirs that apparently "the other guy" had written, that he stormed out of the session and was never all that friendly toward me again!
It's sad - I liked him.
(Parasites - "Pair of Sides," though? Can we start a bad album title thread?)
yeah, it was only for a little bit, and didn't really go anywhere. That dude could write a pop hook though, I tells ya! The 'other' guy, I believe was the DeeDee character, and I guess they had a falling out after many years together, and now Dave was trying to reform the band. I think he relocated to SF later on and actually got a lineup together.
I gotta give Dave Parasite props for introducing me to wfmu.
another fun fact: the first 'real' show that Common Ground played was at Under the Hut in Olneyville. I do believe that a band called Citizen's Arrest played later in the evening. I bought their 7".