The A.G's

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You sometimes hear people talk about their high school garage band. Well, The A.G’s was our high school driveway band. While the garage band is a distinctly suburban phenomenon, we neighbor-free teenagers of rural America (southeastern New Hampshire, in our case) had an even better place, free of exhaust fumes, oil spills and cat boxes, to rock out. So it was designated drummer Kjell Youngren s driveway in agriculturally-minded Lee, NH that was chosen as the site of the first ever rehearsal of the Amateur Gynecologists back in September of 1985. Present at that historic meeting of the perverted minds: Jon and Thatch on guitar and bass; host Kjell pounding an odd conglomeration of snare drum, cymbal, and plastic buckets; vocalist Bryan Mussulman, who got the job after never having gotten around to learning the bass the previous summer; and second and third guitarists Tom Carter and Eliot Shepard. We wrote our first song, “Taking A Shit,” that day, but it was to be our last session in the driveway: Kjell and his buckets were quickly replaced by the more skilled Mike Jedicke, and Tom and Eliot, neither of whom could quite get the hang of barre chords, were dismissed as well. Thatch’s basement became our new home. With the new lineup in place, we practiced, played some shows, and actually improved a little over the course of the next 9 months or so. We even managed a release of a split full-length cassette with California’s Stukas Over Bedrock on pal Pat Houdek’s tape-only label

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