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It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

I've been part of five different bands in my time.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

I joined a band to hit things.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.