The next steps were sort of the natural evolution of things.  A show was put together at the theatre in Toccoa, the Schaefer Center.  A Christian band from Atlanta came up - The Matter.  We took the opportunity to try to record during the time that we had the theatre.  It didn’t come out well - drums too loud and echoey.  The drums were great, but we were unable to put together a good sound for everyone. 

  The show went reasonably well.  Somewhere I have a recording of it.  My wife was in the balcony with one of those old cassette players.  The tape had Echo and the Bunnymen on the other side.  When you listen to the recording of the show there is some bleed over of Echo for some reason.  Kind of funny.  Anyway, we played our originals and 2 covers - Bullet the Blue Sky and London by the Smiths - neither of which were particularly good, but it was good experience.  I don’t honestly remember if the show was well attended or not.  It was a start.

  Back to the recording.  We chose to record in the old science building where we had been rehearsing.  Dave did the recording.  Considering the acoustics of the room, it’s remarkable that it came out as well as it did.  The main thing I remember about doing the recording was the bad smell in that building.  It smelled like science experiments - disecting,etc.  It was a Saturday morning, not a great time for laying down rock tracks, dim and there were a mess of cords around.  We began hawking the finished version at shows.  The intial reaction was not generally positive and did not help us to get shows.   Nevertheless, it contains one of my all time favorite songs - called "Throwing An Engine".  It was the beginning of Lee’s songwriting skills.  It’s a wonderful song.