Everything new in the music business at the time would take time to develop. White Zombie was no exception. Case in point, I remember it took months and months of touring to get the interest from the music public at large. Geffen Records released" “LA Sexorcisto” in 1992 and the band toured behind it for over 24 months. The label stuck with them and radio finally came around. I had met the band a couple of times, however on this occasion they were set to headline the Warfield theater SF. I was back stage when one of the doormen stopped in and said that there was someone at the Backstage door looking for Sean Yseult. She said to everyone WTF. It turns out it was an old friend who had a gift for her. She said send them in, the bouncer got it mixed up and thought she meant to send the gift in, and make her friend go through the front doors. She was mad, however the gift arrived in a wooden slip case box. Sean took a moment and slipped the box top open and to everyone’s surprise was a perfectly preserved, acid dipped and cleaned Blue Jay. She was transfixed, saying that she will add this to her collection. She was asking us if we knew how awesome a gift this was, and that Birds have something like 300 bones. The acid cleaned bones is a taxidermist procedure that you really have to see to believe. Indeed an amazing gift.

I was invited to a Thin Lizzie show at The Warfield theater. It was early in my career and a friend asked me to go with her. I was a huge fan and could not refuse. She said she had backstage passes and wanted to get there early. The Warfield backstage is under the stage. We hung out for a while and realized the band was doing a sound check. Charlotte had obviously been here before and knew the way, she grabbed my hand and said follow me as she led me to a private stage door and up this tiny metal spiral staircase onto stage right. It popped us right up onto the stage. After a blistering sound check Phil Lynott came right over to us, kissed Charlotte who then introduced me. She had met him before, and he knew she was coming. Clearly he was interested in hanging with her. I made my way back to the backstage area where I chatted with Neal Schon of Journey who was hanging… Neal later joined Thin Lizzie for a few songs during their amazing set. It was a brief and simple meet, but little did we know that a few years later, Phil would pass from complications from pneumonia at age 36...