Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    HITMAN..
    
    Rick called me this morning and told me all about the tee-shirts
    etc.. sounds like a cool idea.  I really want to *hear* this band..
    I told Rick I'd keep my eyes and ears open for a drummer.  Is he
    a good bassist? What kind of music do they play? Original or cover?
    
    CJ

    Rick is a pretty good basist.  He works on it around three hours
    in the morning and a couple more in the afternoon.  Steve and Rick
    practice every day.  Steve is a pretty good singer.  I was impressed
    when I heard him really go at it the other day.  He has a ton of
    potential on the git.
    
    As for what they play.  Everything.  Alot of emphasis on Van Halen
    old and new, afew Beatles tunes here and there, Bad Company, I'm
    starting to get them into Metallica (Fade to Black) and as soon
    as the drummer thing gets settled, a whole world of music is going
    to open up for these guys.  When I saw Pete's band Friday, it reminded
    me quite a bit of us (yes, I include myself. I bust my b@!!$ for
    these guys, so why not!).  Joe impressed me Friday!
    
    HITMAN
    
    Like I said, alot have sold in advance.  I hope there is some intrest
    here!

    Hey, anybody knowing of a half decent drummer living in proximity
    to the Methuen/Lawrence area, send me mail.  Pete, did you tell
    me you knew of somebody?
    
    HITMAN

    
    re .3
    
      yep, I'll talk to him this weekend about it.
    
    /prc

    
    
    Hello???  What sort of music?  I live in Derry, right down the road
    . . .
    
    

    I know a guy that goes to Ulowell.  He's great on the skins.  Give
    me the info where I can have him get in touch with you.
    
    The Sentinel
    

    I think I'm getting thru to these boys.  They are playing a couple
    of Sabbath tunes now, a couple of songs off of Pyromania, and more
    from OVH (Old Van Halen).  I'm thinking about starting a topic called
    "Diary of a new Rock Group..." 
    
    Right now we are trying out a new drummer who worked out quite a
    bit with The B-Street Bombers.  Anybody ever heard of them?  Rick
    has talked with two other drummers I introduced to him (thanks for
    the good contacts guys, I appreciate it!) and things are going well.
    The T-Shirts are going to be ready next week and that should be
    alot of fun.
    
    HITMAN

    Well, the new year has started off with a bang.  
    
    Rick and I have talked at great length with two people, brother
    and sister.  Mary (Zompa, I believe the last name is...) plays
    the git and keyboard, and I have heard her sing.  She is excellent.
    We have her in the band for sure.  Her brother Andy plays drums,
    and I only have Ricks word that he is excellent... his old band
    won a "Battle of the Bands" type of thing last year at some college.
    
    I am hoping to get this place I have heard of through Jay for these
    guys to practice in.  It is a fairly small hall, cheap, but large
    enough for a good size crowd, a good size band, and a couple of
    stacks of Marshall amps...
    
    The T-shirts are still going well.  Only a few left now.  Several
    promo-type pictures, both black & white and color have come out
    excellent.  
    
    We have made a few new contacts, one with a man who books alot of
    bands in certain clubs in Boston.  We are talking more than a few
    months away, but still... a damn good contact!  
    
    All good news for right now.
    
    HITMAN

    Also, we are writing afew more originals.  I like this because
    I get to help here more than anywhere else.  The song "Eye of the
    Storm" is excellent.  It better be... its on the gaddamm t-shirt!
    (^;
    
    HITMAN

    
    	You better save me a BLACK (l) shirt....!!!
    
    BK
    

    Hey dude, you'll see it tomorrow night!  (^8
    
    HITMAN

    Yesterday Rick and I went to Hallisey (Sp?) and put a deposit down
    on a Toyota van to transport all the amps weve been buying.  Besides
    that, I guess you could say Rick's old car is a sh*tbox and shouldn't
    live past this month (^; and we had to get sumthin' for him.
    
    The band itself has been practicing a little less because of lack
    of transportation,maybe once or twice during the week and twice
    on the weekends.  But things are still going cool.  Sometimes I
    wonder if we are taking things too seriously.
    
    HITMAN

                Hey,  if  you  have  just  bought  all  this  new
                equipment and a  new van, you had BETTER taske it
                seriously, unless you have the $$$ to part with .
                . .
                
                

    
    
    
    
    	They MUST have money to part with...remember all the
    	chinese food they bought at Brian's party?!?!
    
    	Now Hitman!  Don't be talking like this...don't give
    	up now!!
    
    	Tigga~~
    

    
    I will never give up as long as I feel my friends need me.  When
    it gets to the point where they have given up, which doesn't look
    like that'll happen for a loooong time, or when I feel like a fifth
    wheel, then I'll screw.
    
    BTW, the van doesn't look like it'll happen for a while now, at
    least three months.  We talked for a good length of time about it
    and realized what the size of this bill would be and how much we
    can afford is.  One stack of amps is coming first, then the van.
    Way too much was happening at once.  I feel alot better about the
    situation now!
    
    HITMAN
    
    P.S.  I hoped everybody enjoyed the chinese food, btw!  (^;

    
    The band has been using an ol' friend from high school on drums
    for the past couple of months, Ross Jardine.  He's a big boy,
    probably 6'5 or 6'6", probably over 300 pounds.  He might be
    considered amatuer, but sh*t, when he hits those skins, he
    HITS THE SKINS!!!
    
    He won't be with us forever though, when he goes back to school
    hopefully Andy will be playing with us.
    
    I congradulate myself on getting these guys into true H_M.  Even
    more so since Brians party, Mettalica has influenced Rick in
    particular.  Two songs now being worked on are "One" and "Fade to
    Black", with hopefully more to come.  Rick picks up an amp today,
    a Marshall bass amp (I forget the model #) and theres a four track
    in store soon.
    
    Rick asked ME if I wanted to do vocals on "One".  I laughed and
    then I left... I could never Butcher such a ba**sy tune!
    
    HITMAN

    
    
    Have Rick do the vocals!
    
    Seriously, he'd look good doing that song..

    Hey HITMAN, 
    
    what kind of amp is that guit player of yours crankin out through?
    
    Us otehr guit players like to know that stuff

Hi Buck...
    
    I just gave Lefty a call and he tells me the amp he is picking up
    today is a Marshall 3540 bass head.  The Ones he is expecting soon
    are the cabs for it, a 1510 Marshall and a 1520.
    
    Steve's amps (which are coming in in March, I think) is a Marshall
    3315 head with the 1960a (I'm pretty sure) and 1960b cabs.
    
    I was just curious why the bass amps have so much more power than
    the lead git amps.  Do they need that much more wattage because
    of deeper resolution or something?
    
    Jus' curious...
    
    HITMAN

    
    	I wanna try that amp!!!!
    
    BK
    

    I can't remember exactly how many watts it had, but its weird how
    the top amp on the stack, the littlest one is more powerful than
    the big ones beneath it.
    
    Taz... definately!  We are still trying to talk to the owner of
    that place to practice.  If we get a hold of it, c'mon up!  It'll
    be the loudest place in Southeastern New Hampshire!  (^;   
    
    HITMAN

    LOudest in Southern N.H. ....Alright!!!!!!
    
    General Tama who lives in Salem may hear it from his back Yard

    
    	I'll even loan Lefty (aka rick) my bass amp..then The Duke will
    hear him (lefty) play..
    
    Bk
    

                
                Except inside my car . . .
                
                :`)
                
                - Rob  who  needs  a  battery  charger 'cause his
                battery is almost dead -
                
                

    Reply .22
    
    Tama... Why hear it from your back yard?  If we get this place,
    we want everybody to come on up.
    
    Reply .23
    
    Taz, I hope so!  I can't wait to hear it when both Lefty and Steve
    get all their amps and Effects Pedals and sh*t like that.  I know
    you'll have a great time foolin' around with this stuff!  Buck?
    Wheres Buck... he must know more about these things than the dudes
    who invented them...
    
    Reply .24
    
    Rob.  We've were joking around the other night (Lefty & I) and said
    once we get this cargo van, we can put all the amps in there and
    rig up some kind of battery-rack along side it, and head down to
    the beach during the summer.....  AGagagagagagaaaaaa
    
    Let me break out my Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy....
    
    Loudness.  All one must do to find the loudest sound in the universe
    is to find where Disaster Area is playing there latest gig, then
    plant yourself inside a concrete room some thirty miles away from
    the stage.  The band itself is sending the music in from an orbiting
    satillite, or most likely, an entirely different planet in the system.
    
    Loudness on Earth, a Blue 1989 Toyota cargo van somewhere in the
    vicinity of Hampton, New Hampshire...
    
    Agagagaaaaa haa hah aaaaaahahaa
    
    HITMAN

    what place are ya trying to get hitman in Southern N.H. ???
    
    Tama who will Go

                
                Re: .25
                
                Someone did  that  a  couple of years back.  They
                had a trailer  hooked  up  to the back of a truck
                and  cruised around Hampton  (kind  of  like  the
                Dokken video).  I didn't  see  it, but Dad stayed
                up there and was telling me about it.
                
                - Rob -
                
                

    reply .26
    
    Tama, y'know where Alfred Drive is (I think thats what the road
    is)?  Off of North Main Street, where I used to live (my folks
    used to own The Pines Superette, and we lived at the house attached
    to it.  That was heaven for a kid!  No wonder I'm still overweight.)
    Anyway, theres a grey 'hall' on that road, not too big, but not
    too small either that some guy rents out for like ten dollars for
    six hours.  
    
    Jay Stanley rents that place out every once in a while so he can
    play there with his brother and some friends.  As a matter of fact
    a few weeks ago he rented it out on a Saturday night and put fliers
    out that there were going to be two live bands there and it was
    a big party.  Thats what it turned into.  A small riot.  There were
    dozens of cars lined up and down the street, and so much smoke in
    there that you couldn't keep your eyes open without them tearing
    up.  I couldn't breathe.
    
    Anyway, there were a hold mess of kids, thirteen years old to eighteen
    years old in there getting into fights and $h!t and it was a joke.
    Wall to wall people, smoke and drunk 12 year olds.  Lefty and I
    got out of there just before the cops showed up.  Hell, we just
    wanted to watch Jay play and to talk to the owner!
    
    Reply .25
    
    Rob, I guess it can be done!!!  Lets rent a mammoth U-Haul and pick
    up around thirty or forty of the best lookin' females on the beach,
    huh?!  You wanna do drums?  Lefty on bass, Steve on lead or rythm
    and Buck on lead with Butchika and Steve doin' vocals.  Maybe two
    U-Hauls!  HA!  Seein that I'm gettin carried away here...
    
    Lets rent a three story, 36 unit apartment building too!!!
    Agagagagagaaaa!!!
    
    HITMAN

                
                I was at that party . . .
                
                - rob -
                
                

    Rob...
    
    NO way!!!  I probably couldn't see you though all the smoke...
    
    HITMAN

    I have some bad news.  Saturday Steve checked himself into a
    drug/alcohol rehab.  He found that old ghosts were reappearing to
    him and old habits were as well.  He is not a weak individual, nor
    is he immature or stupid.  He did the right thing.
    
    He has been there before, and last time he was there for a long
    period of time, before I knew him.  Nobody ever came to visit him
    or anything, for afew months.  This time it will be different. 
    Lefty and I are here for him and will be very supportive.  This
    is in no way the end of I4NI.  Steve's main reason for being these
    days IS the prospect of a band with a future.
    
    As soon as this thing runs its course, and it will, Steve is going
    to move out of his present apartment and move in with Rick in a
    far better area.  Things are going to be okay.
    
    In the mean time, more amps will be bought, and buisness will go
    along as usual.  This is a setback, no question about it, but we
    are just as much a family as we are a band.  Steve and Rick are
    like brothers to me, no matter what has happened in the past or
    what will happen in the future.
    
    It is no secret that I lost my best friend Dean acouple of years
    ago to the same disease that Steve has now (his "addiction").  I
    am going to make damn sure that it doesn't happen again.  I'm sure
    some of you guys & girls out there have had some kind of similar
    experience with friends or family.  As soon as I get the adress,
    I will write it down in this file in hope that you guys will write
    him a note of encouragement.  It will definately bring up his spirits
    to hear from "a fan of I4NI"!!!
    
    Thank you all...
    
    HITMAN

    
    sorry to hear that!!!!
    
    
    well i guess i can say, at least steve is strong enuff to want to
    change, i can imagine what goes on in steves head..
    ( its like i dont know what i want... but this isnt it :^))
    
    well glad to hear that there are friends out there that will stick
    with u thru thick and thin...ups and downs..
    
    i had a friend that did lighting and sound for j. giels band,
    he quit the road came back with a 1500.00 a week coke habit, and
    fought it every inch or the way.. i tried, other friends tried to
    help, but u cant unless they want to try..( and of course they have
    figure out if they have a problem)
    
    he finnally got things together and 4 years later got his lighting
    bussiness he had always dreamed about...and doing really well.
    
    
                                                            

    The first letter came yesterday.  We'll give Steve all the letters
    we get the first chance possible.  We'd like to get a few first
    before we do that.  I know this is going to make him smile.  Probably
    for the first time in a week...
    
    HITMAN

    
    I talked to Steve yesterday over the phone.  He sounds good.  He
    is checking into this place next week, after a good wait on the
    waiting list.  He is not looking forward to this.  Francine has
    mailed him a couple of letters, which he has read and he is now
    writing a reply letter.  Thanks Francine!
    
    Anyway, Rick's bass is on hold because the company that is making
    it (special order) is merging or being bought out by somebody else
    and all orders are on hold.  Wierd.  Rick himself is taking lessons
    in classical guitar right now, but sometimes I wish he would just
    concentrate on his bass instead of playing his mandolin or his
    acoustics.  For crineoutloud, he carries a ****ing harmonica around
    with him.
    
    We've been talking about 4-tracks lately, and Lefty has his heart
    set on an eight instead of a four.  We have plenty of literature
    on it and we'll see what comes of it.  But I have read up on it
    some and I like the sound of an eight track better too.
    
    HITMAN

    Lefty, Steve and Ross J. practiced Sunday for a few hours.  Steve
    was very rusty, missed a few chords here and there but that is
    understandable.  I wanted to go and watch them play but I somehow
    managed to sleep late Sunday and missed everything altogether.
    (Rough night Saturday!)
    
    We find out today when Steve goes in, if he does.  I guess some
    board meets to look over if he really needs to go in.  Personally
    I feel that if HE feels he needs to go in, there should be no
    matter about it, but money and space at this place is precious,
    I guess.
    
    Anyway, I've got some work to do, and I'm listening to the tape
    they made out on the dock.  Its rough, belive me.  But what do
    you want, Led Zep?  (^;
    
    HITMAN

    
    Well, bad news in overabundance.  I'll keep it real simple.
    
    1)  Steve has another long wait before he is actually checked in.
        It might be until April.  And his stay might be SIX MONTHS.
    	My eyes nearly popped out when I heard that from Lefty.  He
    	had talked to Steve afew minutes before and told Lefty that
    	was probably more than he could bear.
    
    But that might not be the worst.
    
    2)  Rick's on/off girlfriend is pregnant.  I almost decked him when
    	he told me.  Its not the first time.  God, how many times have
    	I told this kid to be careful???  Wear a *u*k*n* piece of plastic
    	man!!!  This time, evidently, she is going to keep it, which
    	is what should be done, I guess, and from what he tells me they
    	are going to get married.  I told him I was behind him in whatever
    	they decided to do, and, well, whenever it is going to be done,
    	I'm going to be his best man.
    
    	I am more confused over the situation than anything else.  It
    has all happened very quickly, as everything happens with this group,
    and my head is spinning.  Now we just take everything as it comes
    and take it from there (but wasn't that the way it was always?).
    
    HITMAN

    
    They say bad news comes in threes, so you'd better watch out,
    you're not done yet!
    
    Dilly

    Well, thanks ALOT Stace!  (^;
    
    Why don't ya cheer me up s'more!  I need a root beer (as BK used
    to say).
    
    HITMAN on Walkabout

    Just brace yourself!  I'm one of those superstitious types, y'know.
    
    Sorry to hear about your left arm...
    
    Tell Steve to hang in there, that it's worth it, and you guys
    should make sure to keep the band together above all.
    Girls getting pregnant, drug rehabs, that kind of thing can
    snuff out a band so fast... everyone gets "the busies" and before
    you know it, poof, no band.
    
    Y'all keep your cute little chins up, okay?
    
    All smiles
    
    Dilly

    Hey Hitman....
    
    Alot of GREAT bands suffer along the way with problems just like
    or worse than yours....actually this might be an omen of what is
    to be....
    
    Dark Helmet

    
    Alot Of Bands Do Suffer worse Don,,
    
    Back in 1982 Our lead Guitarist was struck by a drunk when he was
    walking,Such a shame so Young and so talanted,He Now lives in his
    owne state of Mind,Never be the same...
      Hang in there Don
    
    jim

    
    
    
    I think everythings gonna be just fine.  Just cause Rick is getting
    married (can't believe he did that!) doesn't mean he still can't
    be in a band!
    
    Its cool.  Time heals everything..
    
    Try to look on the bright side of things!
    
    F.

    
    I hear 'ya all.  Lefty is taking things as they come.  Wierd kid.
    His life is about to change drastically and he is off in some other
    dimension playing tiddlywinks (with a condom, I hope) making like
    nothing ever happened and God will send money soon.
    
    Steve I haven't seen in a while.  I'm anxious to talk with him to
    see whats going on.
    
    The way things have been going with me lately is an entirely different
    story.  My motto has been "I should have pulled the trigger when
    I had the nerve..."
    
    HITMAN

    
    Anyway, I'm getting together with Lefty tonight, and both Paul and
    Lefty tomorrow.  Hopefully we will get alot accomplished then as
    to where we are going as a group, and as friends.  Its the only
    time during the f***ing week when I don't have things to worry
    about, and then I worry about other things.
    
    And as for the point I was trying to get across, its not really
    a matter of credit cards and camaros here, I was just trying to
    explain that I feel like my life is going nowhere at twice the
    speed of sound and its frustrating.  And depressing.
    
    I look back to a time when I was twenty pounds lighter, had money
    in the bank, a "new" red camaro, and a job with a company (now a
    fortune 500 co.) that flew me to New York City, Cinci, Atlanta,
    Philadelphia and such, and besides that I thought I had good friends
    and a beautiful girlfriend.  And a parakeet.
    
    Then I had a future.  Now I am a temp with a 1979 Olds, I'm twenty
    pounds overwieght with a girlfriend who I love but suffocates the
    hell out of me, I'm semi-broke, and half of my friends are either
    dead, or fu**ed my ex-firlfriends, and my parakeet is dead too.
    I think I miss the bird the most.
    
    Don't I paint a lovely picture???  I draw good too.
    
    HITMAN
    
    (Who celebrates Mondays on Tuesday today)

    
    Anyway, about the BAND....  (^;
    
    HITMAN (Who thinks Jesse Hernandez is basically a pretty cool dude,
            wether he likes it or not)

    <AHEM>
    
    Do I hear a case of the poor me's or what?? This isn't a flame,
    honey...just a friendly slap in the pusss. 
    
    Look. You named off good things, in a negative manner. You ungrateful,
    brat!
    
    Big deal, your not in the Fortune 500 co., Big deal, you don't own
    a 'Red Camaro', Big deal your friends have problems too. 
    
    Look buddy, like, your whole life is over!! Cash in!! Your what,
    21? Your lucky to be working at all, let alone at Digital. You have
    money, your not the proud owner of a useless $50,000 car, but think,
    you have your *dreams*. Some people are condemned to getting EVERYTHING
    they're little [I emphasis that word] heart desires, and what's
    left? Nothing.
    
    
    You need to appreciate what you have. Your life is not over. Surprise.
    surprise. You are so young, you have so much to go through. If you
    can't make it through these little traumas, what are you going to
    do when sh*t really goes down?
    
    Nothing is such a big deal that we can't handle. That's where friends
    come in. You need to stop trying to do so much for your friends...its
    wearing you thin, man. Whatever happens to them, is a result of
    a decision they made ON THEIR OWN...you had nothing to do with the
    F-ed up lives of your friends. All you can do is give them a soft
    shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen, or your greatest asset, your
    warm smile. Nothing more. Your not God, your not a wizard, you cannot
    perform miracles. Stop it. Just be happy you can walk and talk.
    
    Suggest going to a childrens hospital. You want to be depressed.
    Stop moaning about yourself, there are children who aren't even
    walking yet, and they've got less than a year to 6 mos. to live,
    if they live, some are in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives,
    some are blind, or have other handicaps. You really think YOU have
    problems, Don? Think about it.
    
    You don't do you...You actually lead a pretty good life, you just
    don't lead a perfect life....oh well, welcome to reality...
    
    your friend.
    
    -renee/vampirella>

    
    Vampirella (I love it!!)
    
    You got it.  Don and I had a little chit chat pity party for
    ourselves yesterday, at which time I referred him to another
    reply somewhere that you had written about freedom that made me
    feel better on a downer of a day.
    
    Sometimes, Renee, we just don't see the forest dfor the trees and
    you have an excellent way of putting it across.   
    
    Right Don?
    
    Good job, Vamp.  Keep up the good work.  This extended winter is
    getting some of us do-o-o-o-wn.
    
    Dilly

    Hey, I didn't say anything he didn't say...I just made it sound
    a little less mopy!
    
    Dilly, for some reason I can't picture you bummed out, you seem
    like the type that might bum because you've never had a bum day!!
    
    :')
    
    -Vamp>

    
    Well, Friday I'm outa here, and by that time there will probably
    be not too much more news on what the guys are doing.  
    
    As for Lefty, well, the date set for him to tie the knot is May
    26th or 28th or sumthin' like that.  But knowing him, that date
    will probably change...
    
    Steve goes on.  I still haven't talked to him in a while.  All I've
    heard is a tape they made like three weeks ago with Ross.  It sounded
    really good, although the vocals were hardly audable.
    
    Umm, Mary has hardly been around to practice and I don't think (IMO)
    that she will be in the band for that much longer.  Too bad, because
    she really has alot of talent.
    
    Ross goes to school all the time, but he is there when the guys
    want to practice, so that is cool.  Despite his youthful personality,
    I would like to see him practice more often and develop into a 
    quality drummer.  He has potential.
    
    Me, I'm just me.  I would like for you people to meet these guys
    as a group someday and get to listen to them live.  Who knows.
    
    Mods, I hope this note does not get deleted, even tho I will be
    gone.  Maybe someday when I4NI gets its act together, the noters
    of this conference will have something to talk about.
    
    HITMAN (H_M forever)

    Saw HITMAN this past weekend....wanted me to let you all
    know that Steve is out of the hospital and doing very well....