Tales From The Blue Garage
Jun 11, 2010 Just Sharing
The Blue Garage was the premier neighborhood jam shed in Cedar Hills back in the 80′s. It was a fully detached room on the other side of the carport of the house where Karl basically lived once his drum kit moved in. Many infamous characters jammed that room on route to their own dreams of stardom, Stan (The Man) Sullivan, Henry (Degas) Levesque, Rob (Gunner) Gunn, Pete (Konehead) Konings… just to name a few.
Some of them made it, some came close, some lost interest, and most drifted their separate ways in the end, but ALL were a part of Early Wattage and all benefited from each other’s early ambition and desire to be part of a group of dudes cranking out some rock and roll.
I recall a lot of the sounds that blasted thru those walls on a Friday night were better pre grunge than anything coming out of Seattle years later. No cell phones, no computers, just pure GARAGE! And after jamming, beers and doobs on the nice grass of Robertson Drive Park, and then maybe off to the Surrey Drive Inn to watch Karl deke the security while we hiked the beers over the fence.
It certainly was a great time to be a teenager growing up OUR way in Surrey. This is what Surrey Pride was all about…
\m/ KARL ROCKS \m/
Tags: blue garage, Cedar Hills, grunge, jamming, pre grunge, Robertson Drive Park, rock and roll, Seattle, Surrey