My screen name is shrouded in mystery, I sort of know where and when, but I don’t know who gave it to me.
A long time a go I got a gig with the Bellamy Brothers, I’d been out with them for a couple of months and one day we were playing a state fair. I believe it was the New Mexico state fair and it was warm so I left my band jacket in my bunk and went to checked out the fair.
Later that night after we left and hit a truck stop I got my jacket and went in to the rest room, while washing my hands I noticed it in the mirror. “Psycho Ward” permantly embroidered on the left front of my jacket. Oh the a$$holes did a good job, beautiful stitching, not too big, not too small…
I have no “memory” of any behavior that would justify such a title! But it stuck; I may as well have it put on my drivers’ license.
Oh yeah, one more mystery from that bunch, we were in Germany for several weeks and I got a great deal on a Hohner chromatic harmonica. I was having a blast trying to learn to play it. I practiced all the time, on the bus, at load in, in my room, I just couldn’t put it down, but then it got stolen and for the last two weeks of the trip I was really bummed out.
When we got back to the states, it miraculously reappeared in my bunk!
Psycho
(got my first one in '91 and then another a year later - thankfully they were both Fndr knock offs).
