The music of the Bad Hair Day- 30th Anniversary

The Patrick Brayer Appreciation Society
May 9, 2022

'My dear friend George "Iggy" Henderson has been working at re-mastering some 30 year old cassette recordings of The Starvation Cafe Radio Archives (KUCR FM Riverside CA) which was a weekly show that ran from 1991-1995. I feel this is special because I've had these documents safely archived away (The Fontucky Mind Museum moving location three times), having not been able to listen to them until now. I remember one time coming home from the show and my dad telling me that he listened, and that I should be careful not to be too open minded as my brains might fall out.
When Henderson humbly thanked me for including him amongst what he considered some of the Inland Empire's greatest musical legends (Ben Harper, Chris Darrow, John York etc) I told him honestly that I'd never had any group on the show that represented the spirit of college radio better than his group, Bad Hair Day.
I was once asked to move my show to KPFK in Hollywood. My reply was: "Is Hollywood in the Inland Empire?".
Not sure in what form we will be able to share this work in the future (over 100 hours so far), but I guess that's why they call it work.
Here are some excepts from 1993 with Iggy Henderson and Thomas Bates Motel, with me snakishly on fiddle reminding Stuart Duncan why he moved to Nashville in the first place.'


Greg Stant- Photographer for Mean Street Magazine

'Live Bad Hair Day has a unique sound . It 's an acoustic electric mix colored by manic depressive lyrics and the haunting voice of Tom Curtis . He sounds like happy suicide .

Happy.

They made me happy , cause for the first time , in a long time , I watched a band actually - now get this - jam on stage . They reminded me of the bands I saw in clubs like CBGB 's in the early 80's .

Seems we don 't jam too much anymore . Too busy making demos . Seems Bad Hair Day left their cool in their other pants pocket . I hope they don 't find them .'

Original DAT masters discovered when family moved to Arizona.
Lost for over 20 years. My Grandfather also died three months after his hundredth birthday in the same room we wrote and recorded these songs. The very same room he heard me on the radio for the first time.
Seemed fitting to make an effort to make this visible.

all my love Tom

xoxo
G

DAT transfers at Studio, Redlands, CA 2020
Maria Baglien engineer

Thomas's music can be found here-
thomasjamesbates.bandcamp.com

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