Band "Plan B" - 1981 - 1984

When I returned to American River College fall 1980 I was hoping to join a band. While in Reno I had purchased a Wurlitzer Electric piano and Roland SH-3A synthesizer and had been self-practicing. Therefore it was amazing when during the first day of class a guy came up to the guy I had randomly sat with as electronics lab partner and asked him "are you going to make Practice tonight? That was Kevin Gale asking Tom Roybal.

I asked if I could come and watch the practice. They needed a keyboard player so I was in.

Rick (drums), Marvin (bass), Kevin (guitar), Tom (guitar), Steve (vocalist)

We occasionally recorded practice sessions in the garage to a mono cassette recorder. 2021 (40 years later) I used a cassette player that outputs USB to extract the songs off the old cassettes. Consider both the source and age on tape when judging. I did my best to "bring them alive" with "EQ V's to reduce resonate frequences" and other processors.

Press the "q" button to silence the player
  • I'm lead vocal on Greg Kihn's "Roadrunner" and "Beside Myself" - and we re-recorded "Beside Myself as Plan-C April 2021
  • Best quality:
    • Sweet 17 (The Babys)
    • I've Done Everything (Cheap Trick)
    • Strangered in the Night (Tom Petty)
    • Jenny 867-5309 (Tommy Tutone)
    • Midnight Rendezvous (The Babys)
    • Working for the Weekend (Loverboy)

Kim and Tom

 

 

 

I sang two songs by Greg Kihn: "Roadrunner" and "Beside Myself"

 

 

 

The next two photos are my first performance at a Halloween Party in 1980. I was terrified when it was my turn to sing - had tunnel vision.

 

When I returned to Sacramento in November 1981 Tom and Kevin moved into my Briartree house, allowing us to leave our equipment permanently set up in the living room.

Yamaha CP-30 - I sold it many years ago. It was heavy!

PLAN B SET LIST

This appears to be a "first year" play list. We added about 10 more songs later.

  • *** SET 1 ***
  • California Man - Cheap Trick
  • Two Ticket to Paradise - Eddie Money
  • Why Sugar - ???
  • Certain Girl - Warren Zevon
  • Listen to her Heart - Tom Petty
  • Fantasy - ???
  • Time to Fly - REO Speedwagon
  • Time to Run - ???
  • Just what I needed - The Cars
  • Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  •  *** SET 2 ***
  • On of Sammy Hagar songs
  • Oh Darling - Beatles
  • Brandy - Looking Glass
  • Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
  • For Your Love - Yardbirds
  • 50's Song - (an original)
  • The Jack - AC/DC
  • Surrender - Cheap Trick
  • Don't Stand so close to me - Police
  • *** SET 3 ***
  • Beside Myself - Greg Kihn
  • Roadrunner - Greg Kihn
  • American Girl - Tom Petty
  • EP #1 - (an original)
  • Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
  • Dirt - (an original)
  • Breakdown - Tom Petty
  • I need to know - Tom Petty
  • Take it Easy - Eagles
  • Already Gone - Eagles
  • Cowboy Song - Thin Lizzy
  • Anything that Rock & Roll's fine - Tom Petty
  • Midnight Rendezvous - Babys
  • Drive me Home - Foghat

Here's another version of our set list that I located - Additional Songs

  • She's Tight - Cheap Trick
  • Dangerous Type - The Cars
  • Long Way to the Top - AC/DC
  • Strangered in the Night - Tom Petty
  • Hang Fire - Rolling Stones