[Jeff Niceswanger]

I don't know a damn thing about California. Never been west of the Mississippi. So I'll have to stay home here in Ohio. These guys played the local clubs in the mid to late 70's. There were bars.. The Swallows, JR's Bar and Grill and the Newark Lounge that they played repeatedly. If you went, be prepared. Standing room only, smoke filled and HOT. Thin girls with Mini skirts and tight little halter tops were the norm. Quaaludes and Cocaine was everywhere in those days. Heck guys would show up with zip lock bags full of diet pills as they were still legal. They were actually Bi-Amphetamines ie. Black Beauties.. Talk about dancing all knight !!. The drug that Bill Crosby used to get the pants off of women was indeed Quaaludes. But back then women took them like candy. I witnessed girls getting up on stage and sticking ludes down players throat's right in the middle of songs. A Bar fight out front (of the Swallows place) landed me in the hospital for 3 days one time. LOL. God those were fun and crazy times. Anyway, the lead guitarist ( Mark Chatfield) joined Bob Seger and the Silver Bullitt Band and the Godz were never the same.