As an addition to my post below on Keith Moon and my previous life in which I worshipped him: Here is an atrocious video taken in 1986 (the year I started dating my wife and 6 months after I started playing the drums). This is my first gig, first solo, and the first time I performed in front of people.

I am 14 years old, with a baby mullet, and playing in a surf-rock band with some seniors from my high school. I was a freshman and we called ourselves "White Lightning." Everyone called me 'Mikie' (in tribute to 'Moonie') and you can hear girls in the audience yelling it. I ended up married to one of them.

The singer’s girlfriend used some kind of psychedelic filter for the video and the guy on stage with us is a drunken birthday boy. The bass player actually went on to play for The Ike McCoy Band. I went on to grow a longer mullet.

I cringe when I watch this, but you can see the moon I mentioned (below) hanging on my cymbal stand and how I played when I was just starting out. I apologize for the audio and the video, although it’s so bad, it may actually be good. Who am I kidding? It's terrible. ROCK HERE (It is a large Quicktime .mov file and may take a few minutes to load.)