We Were Going to Change the World by Stacy Russo

Author:Stacy Russo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781595807953
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Published: 2017-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

I had just joined DC3 with Dez Cadena and a drummer. We were going to have a three-piece power trio. We were all excited about that. They practiced at the same place as Black Flag. Two weeks into that, I got a call from Henry Rollins saying, “Do you want to be in Black Flag? Why don’t you just stay after practice with DC3 and play with Bill and Greg.” So I did, and it was weird. After practice with Dez, I hung around and they acted like they knew nothing about it, but they were up for it. So we jammed, and they asked me to join the same night. I got an opportunity and I took it. I have no regrets about any of it.

I was still going to UCLA the whole time. I said, “If I do this, I need to finish.” I was three years into UCLA by then. This was 1983. I said, “I’ll take quarters off, but we need to work around my schedules.” I studied economic systems science, which is basically half economics and half computing and programming. My idea was that if I wasn’t in music, I could do computers, and there would always be jobs in computers. Of course, nothing I used in college really was that useful in the end. You just finish, because you do.

I was in Black Flag from fall of ’83 to fall of ’85. I did a bunch of touring and made a bunch of records and then I started in Dos with my husband-to-be and now ex-husband Mike Watt. It’s a two-bass band, and we have had this band now for twenty-seven years. He plays bass. I play bass and I sing. At times it is largely instrumental, but there is some significant amount of singing. I have another band that is more of a project that I do some singing in called Awkward, with a stand-up bass player, which is also a two-bass band.

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