As I had mentioned, being from the suburbs, there was no real awareness of what to do once you actually did have a band up and running. We had started playing music in the summer of 1989 as The Tazmanians, but other than playing in some random basements of friend’s houses, there wasn’t much really to accomplish. The dream was always playing somewhere that didn’t have a parent or two wandering around overhead.

After a few years actually learning the instruments we had selected to play. A process that was, as I recall, completely random, we met a fella named Ralph and became The Random Children. Ralph was from Mt. Airy which was at least a bit closer to the city than we were. He attended school at CAPA and knew people in the city that could actually book us a show or two. So, as The Random Children we started playing a couple of honest to god shows.

The first show we ever played in the city was at the Olde City Arcade. It was a couple of doors down from The Continental at 2nd and Market and still sits abandoned today. At the time, Old City was not the “charming” tourist adventure it is today, but instead, a burned out warehouse district. It was actually scary at night.

We played that show with our friends band The Mad Planets and a couple of other local bands. I think there was about 30 people there and it was like playing in a dark, horrible afterbirth of construction…but it was incredible. After that show, and the fight that broke out causing someone to fly through the front pane of glass (how great is that, right?) we really felt like, “Hey, we’re gonna get out of the burbs and actually play some fucking music.”
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Of course, the reality was that wanting to play shows and actually playing shows is drastically different. Even if you wanted to play, there weren’t many places to play. So the logical step was finding some sort of venue that would let young kids have all ages shows. JC Dobbs was that location. I’m not sure what caused us to pick that JC Dobbs located at 3rd and South. I can only assume someone mentioned they knew someone there and we thought that was enough of an in to give it a go. So one day, we called the club, spoke to the booking agent there, a woman named Kathy James, and amazingly, she let us have a go at it. Sunday afternoon’s 3 to 8, all ages.

We booked a lot of shows at Dobbs. Maybe 30 people would come out? Sometimes even 50. But at the time, that seemed like an army. An army of like minded kids looking to form some sort of community in a city where there didn’t seem to be one.

Those sunday shows were like an event. Everyone would plan for them. Everyone would be excited for them…I guess as only kids could ever really be.

The photo above was taken outside of JC Dobbs during one of those matinees. Must have been around 1990. Most of the kids in the photo are from the bands that were playing that day. It wasn’t a lot but it was something.