Playing with bands e loved and playing with the local bands who all hadsomething different and omething special was most wonderful. ssoon e tarted going to Houston to play the great Rock Island. Being texans competition between their bands and out bands was light, at most. We wanted to like each other. the best of the Houstn scene was Really Red. Nice guys, and great live hows with good music. Teh Dicks and The Big Boys were pretty regular on the Houston and Austin Scenes.
the other band we played with a lot was the Stains. Singer Dave Dictor an i were pretty good friends and i had even moved into a house he vacacted. I in the meaantime had become bet friend with Toby---the Armadillo Waitress, moved in togther. what a pair. his brother introduced us because we were the weirde queers in town! the tains were a great band too. big hit was John Wayne was a Nazi. talk of going to San Francisco on a tour started being passed around. i wanted to go bad. Dave was good at pulling shos together and had be come friends with the Maxium Rock and Roll people, especially Tim Yohanna....who was the surpreme leader of that world. we all wanted to go. just to get aay was a chance we wanted to take. we had our little ingle, Daick hate Police and the Live at Paul's album o e were all ready to go. after a long hot trip driving from Austin to SF, we howed up a few days before July 4th, 1981. the firt thing we did was head to Good Will to bye coats and sweat shirts cause it was cold! i loved that.
we did an interview in Bearkley with maxium RnR radio show. that was my first meeting with Yohannan and i a happy he was older that amy of us. He loved the Stains...newly named Millions of Dead Cops aka MDC. He liked us. I had begged Torn Pantie Byrd to come along with me and she did. Being on the road with no women to me was no fun. so she and i were having a time of of own. wathing the california punks and dicecting everyone pretty good. some ere nice, ome too cool to freeze. our big show was at the Mabhua gardens with MDC and The Dead Kenndeys.....it was a big show in a small club. Jello Biafra was very nice to me...to us. i think he was a little afraid of Buxf but still though we were a good group. he liked my 'gay communist' reputation too. i was a straight talker to him and was not at all intimidated to speak my mind with him---but i respected him so we got along. the trp back to austin was long and hot and we had made pretty much no money....we had played only two shows..the MAB AND THE BEAUTIFUL, TENDERLOIN SHEEZY HIT HOLE The Sound of Music. the cop even came in during our set and tried to top the show.....we kept playing and they jut left. me. Byrd, Glen, and our friend Conas had a drive awaay' car to get home with. a huge tation wagon with big wall unit air condishner in the back. just hell. we had fun though. and the idea fo moving to the west coast had been planted in my head. MDC was moving and i wanted us to do something new...somethng to make us get better. practice more. as we began to talk about it more i could ee it might really happen. worrying about money, a place to live and those little problems were not in my thinking at all. jt moving and heading to San Francisco was all i wanted. it was jut about to happen.