McAllister

Released in 1980, in some ways this represents our apotheosis moment for the band. We’d been performing in venues all across Indiana for a while, we’d assembled what we felt was a worthy collection of radio-friendly yet still artistically viable tunes, and we decided to go for it. Self-produced, which of course means self-financed, we were either going to take it to the next level or go back to our day jobs cleaning elephant poop off the streets of traveling circus parades.

The producer Michel Ebert, Steve Sexton and myself drove to New York with this magnum opus under our arms, and achieved … nothing. Comme si, comme ça. Shortly thereafter I evolved into doing more solo performing, and the band eventually just sort of fizzled out. It had run its course. Still, I’m proud of the record, and if given the choice I’d do it all again. There’s something to be said for the excitement, the unbridled hope and promise of youth.