![]() He points out: "That was the beginning of my rock history." After playing a couple of stomping beats, I reduced the drum set to shreds!" They'd hide the sticks from me, but one fated evening I thought, y'know, knives are a lot like drumsticks. ![]() ![]() I was pretending to sing and play drums - if it was left in the garage, I'd play the drum set. By their second album, he says, "my brothers already had a band. ![]() Like most kids of their generation, Lance and his two younger brothers, Grant and Kevin, discovered rock 'n' roll in 1965 with the release of the Beatles' first LP. High was, he states, "unrelieved hell." Lance brutally describes himself as a "gawky" pre-teen: "I wore braces. I had to start school in the middle of the semester, and I had big scabs all over my face. "We left Oregon in the middle of the school year and moved to Santa Barbara," says Lance. But at the age of twelve, by which time Lance was the eldest of five children, the Loud family relocated again - this time to the affluent Southern California community of Santa Barbara. When Lance was six months old, the Louds moved north to Eugene, Oregon. His father was in the Navy fighting in the Korean War. Yet as nearly all their contemporaries went on to label deals and internationally released albums, as Kristian Hoffman's website observes: "the Mumps remained curiously unsigned." Was it merely that the group (as Ira Robbins phrases it) "fell on the wrong side of fate"? Or were they passed over because of something more surreptitious?Īlanson Russell (Lance) Loud was born on June 26, 1951, in the sunny seaside town of La Jolla, California. They played alongside Television, the Ramones, and Blondie - a nd were considered one of the most dependable live draws on the New York club circuit. Mumps was one of the founding bands of the early CBGB scene. "For whatever Mumps were or weren't, I'm very proud of what we did." - Kristian Hoffman, 1995 ![]() besides the fact that three of us were gay in a hetero-heavy field which only acknowledged homosexuality as being a passing marketing ploy in David Bowie's career, the only thing shared between us all was our weird combination of su periority a nd insecurity." - Lance Loud, Fatal Charm CD liner notes, 1994 "Our high vaunting musical ambitions were matched with low ranking musical expertise. ![]()
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