SSQ | ; | Stacey Q |
Karl
Moet played drums, keys; Rich West
played keys, Jon St. James played guitar for the first year (SSQ),
then started handling the production, promotion, and still recording parts on different instruments; Skip - Bass, Guitar and Keyboards (Synthesizers), backing vocals, Dubbed by the group "Designated Hands" |
Meanwhile, on-the-side, bread and
butter
was their producing 'sound-alike' background tracks for MTM (Mary Tyler Moore) Productions, "Hill St. Blues"; "St. Elsewhere", WKRP... Also incidental /and theme music for movies "Cave Girl", and "Night Of the Living Dead"... |
After about 5 years of
'development in
general' with the band, |
A
later SSQ track Skip put vocals to...These were the years when MIDI was just
being introduced and implemented...Ancient History |
Here are Some You Tube
videos of shows including Playback (SSQ) Two Of Hearts , "We Connect" And we did a couple late night talk shows, and Solid Gold |
Several
late night T.V. shows, like The
Joan Rivers' Talk Show, One of the two times on the show, Howie Mandel hosted. They did "Solid Gold " this year, too. |
(Here are some of my photos of Stacey shooting video scenes for Insecurity)
"Don't Make A Fool Of Yourself"
was used
on an episode of "Full House".
Stacey even had a bit part in that show,
and "Facts Of Life", and a couple movies...see the link, above
Skip enlisted the help of
Luthier
Johnny
GO-Go of Red Duck Music,
(with design help from Dave-O Brown of
Whittier (1987) to build the "Q-Axe"
for concerts in the U.S.
and Japan, Korea (1987)
That year " Two Of Hearts " was
on the charts, on
the 'vinyl LP album' or CD: "Better
Than Heaven" (Atlantic-1987)