Howdy Earth Freaks and Wayward Extraterrestrials Entities.

FYI - Just some old nostalgia pics for my own personal archive. Thinking my great great grand kids might someday get a kick outta old gran pappy mullet - Ha! I left out the pic of my most popular band due to the pink purple headband, red leather pants, sleeveless T- shirt with lipstick prints and bright yellow and red sneakers I was forced to wear because of the era. Think of the band Loverboy, then add 12 onces of overkill gayness and there ya have us! The band was "Motion", and if any former members happen along this - Sorry! I just couldn't let that infamous promo pic circulate the web.

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Cindy - Rip - Brad - Dave - Doug
-- Borderline --

Photo taken in Newport Beach near my office on my banana yellow 1957 Ford T-Bird in the alley between the Balboa Inn and Balboa Theater.

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--- Rip --- Bruce --- Klyde ---
-- French Kut --

Photo taken at the Wedge - tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. Our Regular Bass player came down with food poisoning so my best mate Klyde stepped in. We had to shoot for an article deadline so we couldn't delay. The pic you see was framed with our CD to commorate our first album which sold over a million copies. (Ok - not quite that many) - It eventually broke during an earthquake and is the only pic I managed to hang onto - sorry for the tape.

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-- Jim -- Gary -- Terry -- Rip -- Craig
-- The Vaders --

Photo taken in a professional studio - For gawd sakes what were we thinking! Who the hell paid for that? Now this band could rock out and party extremely hardy. At least I think so, can't actually remember through all the fuzzy fog.

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-- Rip -- Dougie -- Wayne -- Mitch -- Bo
-- Ripside --

Photo taken against a white wall, apparently. The band was orginally called Flipside until taking me on as frontman - it then promptly became "Ripside" - cuz that's how I roll. And NO - that's Not a mullet haircut! As far as you know.

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-- Doug -- Weasle -- Rip
-- Band X --

Photo taken by one of our many female groupies. The band music wise, was really aweful. But, we looked hot and had a great time so the following got huge! Mostly young confused females with ear plugs I'd imagine.

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-- Chongo -- Rip -- Blau -- Disco
-- Boo --

Photo taken so we could appear all rough tough and biker like. This was to aide us in scoring some hot biker type chicks, of course.

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--- Rip --- Bruce --- Doug ---
-- French Kut Gig --

Photo of an NBC news camera man filming us at a street fair in the city of Orange. We had around 2000 people stopped and checking us out - one of our better "playing days" to say the least! And... No! Those are not mullet cuts - it was wind shear!

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