Since it's the last day of February, I thought I'd post this, one of the first (if not the first) write-ups of LOOB, from some little magazine that was distributed to various college campuses across Long Island. At the time, I was going to CW Post where Valerie Sicignano was a ubiquitous presence, especially on the school newspaper (and later at many a LOOB show!). I was a ubiquitous presence too, strolling around from dorm to dorm with a guitar, warbling my little songs like some campus troubadour. No wonder why it was hard getting me to band rehearsal in those days! Anyways, she was always a big Michael Goodman (and LOOB) booster, and slipped me (and us) into many-a-column, though she didn't actually see (or possibly even hear) the band until a couple of years later. I'm not sure where the barbershop harmony reference comes from (I had done a barbershop harmony thing on my 4-track, maybe that was it) but the article is correct in at least one respect: at this point we were "getting together (our) new set", there are many rehearsal tapes between February and April of 1988. In fact, I shall be posting one tomorrow!
