Guitardoz Personnel (1983-85)
I joined the Guitardoz in the spring of 1983. The band began in 1980 in Bowling Green, Ohio as The Resistors, moving on to Boulder, Colorado, where I believe they changed the name to Guitardoz. The mainstays of the band were Jerry Wagers on guitar and vocals and Dave "Oscar" Meyer on drums and vocals. See Dave Meyer's site for some history and flyers of the band.
The Guitardoz were nominally a punk band, though there was always a strong melodic sense to Jerry and Oscar's songwriting. For the first year after I joined the band, we plugged into the local punk scene. We used to rehearse at the Practice Pad on Clay St. in Oakland, where we became friends with a great band called Rebels & Infidels. We gigged at Ruthie's Inn, Club Graffiti, the Sound of Music, and our fave Mabuhay Gardens.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Still to come...
* "Fast Attack" 45 recorded 1984
* Sometime in late '84 or '85, Jerry got a Fender Twin Reverb, and under the influence of REM et. al, things started to get more jangly.
* Taking it to the streets - Gutardoz go acoustic
* Self-produced shows
* Gigs with American Music Club, Del Fuegos
Guitardoz Links
Oscar's Guitardoz EP pages
Oscar's Resistors/Guitardoz flyers pages
Oscar's current band Bunk Onion
Jerry Wagers' homepage
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